"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.
They'll be hiding in the shadows
They'll be hiding in the dark of the night
They'll be hiding 'til tomorrow
They'll be hiding 'til the timing is right
It's an answer for the future
It's a question that we left in the past
It's a message for the masses
It's a problem but it ain't gonna last
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
It's a passing of a legend
It's a passing of an age of pretend
It's a story that we beckon
It's a story and it ain't gonna end
Until now
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
They'll be hiding in the dark of the night
They'll be hiding 'til tomorrow
They'll be hiding 'til the timing is right
It's an answer for the future
It's a question that we left in the past
It's a message for the masses
It's a problem but it ain't gonna last
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
It's a passing of a legend
It's a passing of an age of pretend
It's a story that we beckon
It's a story and it ain't gonna end
Until now
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Ooh, you will give to me
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, today
Lyrics submitted by Baldwin_XX
Shadows Lyrics as written by Barry De Vorzon
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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