"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 the moon's in the sky I like it
When the moon's in the sky we like it
It's not gonna give us bad advice
So go and dance with your thunder and lightning
Where the paradise birds are fighting
Let's shake things up a bit tonight
Are you coming out tonight?
Are you coming out tonight?
'Cause we're going out tonight
And we won't be cattle on your farm tonight
Ask yourself why
Come on, ask your man why
'Cause you're ugly and you lie
And you kriss kross, kriss kross, it's a lie
So bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Are you coming out tonight?
Well, come out with us tonight
'Cause there's wrong and there is right
And we know which one we are tonight
Ah, don't start crying now, don't go crying now
'Cause the moon is gonna dance for us tonight
Don't go dying now, you're not dying now
And the sky is just not close to us tonight
And as for you, friend, high in your high home
Watching us all falling down like rain
I hope you're happy, feel really holy
'Cause your godliness has taken
Every single thing I loved on earth tonight
Oh, I won't let you leave me
You're all I've got, believe me
Stay, don't close your eyes
Nobody really dies
They all just end up in the sky
So far away
When the moon's in the sky we like it
It's not gonna give us bad advice
So go and dance with your thunder and lightning
Where the paradise birds are fighting
Let's shake things up a bit tonight
Are you coming out tonight?
Are you coming out tonight?
'Cause we're going out tonight
And we won't be cattle on your farm tonight
Ask yourself why
Come on, ask your man why
'Cause you're ugly and you lie
And you kriss kross, kriss kross, it's a lie
So bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Are you coming out tonight?
Well, come out with us tonight
'Cause there's wrong and there is right
And we know which one we are tonight
Ah, don't start crying now, don't go crying now
'Cause the moon is gonna dance for us tonight
Don't go dying now, you're not dying now
And the sky is just not close to us tonight
And as for you, friend, high in your high home
Watching us all falling down like rain
I hope you're happy, feel really holy
'Cause your godliness has taken
Every single thing I loved on earth tonight
Oh, I won't let you leave me
You're all I've got, believe me
Stay, don't close your eyes
Nobody really dies
They all just end up in the sky
So far away
Lyrics submitted by deltasunlight
Kriss Kross Lyrics as written by Fyfe Dangerfield Hutchins Aristazabal Emi Chen Hawkes
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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