"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
When you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
You are the taste of something sweet
And I'm tangled in the sheets
You left your mark, dragged down my back
So chain me up, I'm in too deep
Too much of you is never enough
When you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just one fix
To keep me in the mix
And I'm still strung out on you
Drove all night
I'm the deer in your headlights
What's left of me you'll swallow soon
Too much of you is never enough
So when you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
You took what you wanted
You got it, you know it
I'm haunted by everything that you gave me
You made me, you broke me, you saved me
I'm crazy, but I'm not done
So when you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
(Holly, would you turn me on?)
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
When you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
You are the taste of something sweet
And I'm tangled in the sheets
You left your mark, dragged down my back
So chain me up, I'm in too deep
Too much of you is never enough
When you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just one fix
To keep me in the mix
And I'm still strung out on you
Drove all night
I'm the deer in your headlights
What's left of me you'll swallow soon
Too much of you is never enough
So when you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
You took what you wanted
You got it, you know it
I'm haunted by everything that you gave me
You made me, you broke me, you saved me
I'm crazy, but I'm not done
So when you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
(Holly, would you turn me on?)
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
When you gonna give it up?
You're giving me such a rush
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Just another pretty face,
But I want one more taste
Come on Holly, would you turn me on?
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Holly (Would You Turn Me On?) Lyrics as written by Sam Hollander Alex Gaskarth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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dear maria is about a stripper, not this one. alex said its a play on words, its deff. supposed to be hollywood.
whats left of me you'll swallow soon is about being so consumed with something. like holly a girl or hollywood. either way it works, and the first time you hear it most people won't catch its not about a girl, thats why its such a good play on words.