"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.
Lookin' at ya now I can tell that you and your new relationship ain't goin' well
There's no reason your name should come up on my cell
Unless you're unhappy but that shouldn't be the case cause you said
Said he was the one baby yes you said said you were in love (love)
When you left me u said that you wouldn't be comin' back
Remember that but I never agreed
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
Girl you know he can't touch like I do
I don't see you trippin' or flippin' over his moves
Don't take a genius to see he ain't that dude
But you let him back you don't know what you was on
When you said said he was the one
Baby yes you said said you were in love
When you left me you said that you wouldn't be
Comin' back remember that but I never agreed
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
You fell on hard times it seems but you ain't getting no sympathy
No baby not from me cause I told you you should never leave
See you chose this road so you gotta go it alone
Remember I told you so
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
(I can't take you back no)
There's no reason your name should come up on my cell
Unless you're unhappy but that shouldn't be the case cause you said
Said he was the one baby yes you said said you were in love (love)
When you left me u said that you wouldn't be comin' back
Remember that but I never agreed
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
Girl you know he can't touch like I do
I don't see you trippin' or flippin' over his moves
Don't take a genius to see he ain't that dude
But you let him back you don't know what you was on
When you said said he was the one
Baby yes you said said you were in love
When you left me you said that you wouldn't be
Comin' back remember that but I never agreed
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
You fell on hard times it seems but you ain't getting no sympathy
No baby not from me cause I told you you should never leave
See you chose this road so you gotta go it alone
Remember I told you so
I hate to say it but I told you so
Told you if you left that you were goin' be miserable
Guess he don't do it like me
Or else you wouldn't be
Runnin' back to the past it was you that left me
I hate to say it but you know I'm right
Every time you're up you're callin' for me late at night
But now that you ain't got me tell me where you goin' be
Cause I can't take you back no my heart wont let me
(I can't take you back no)
Lyrics submitted by __midnightdreary
Told You So Lyrics as written by Michael J. Luce Stevie Benton
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I've seen this happen to my cousins boyfriend,
Lookin’ at ya now I can tell, That you and your new relationship ain’t goin’ well There’s no reason your name should come up on my cell, Unless you’re unhappy, But that shouldn’t be the case cause you said, Said he was the one Baby yes you said, Said you were in love When you left me, you said that you wouldn’t be comin’ back Remember that, but I never agree
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Lookin’ at ya now I can tell, That you and your new relationship ain’t goin’ well There’s no reason your name should come up on my cell, Unless you’re unhappy, But that shouldn’t be the case cause you said, Said he was the one Baby yes you said, Said you were in love When you left me, you said that you wouldn’t be comin’ back Remember that, but I never agree
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A girl broke up with her ex-boyfriend in order to be with someone else, who she said she loved - but he knew she would want him back. Now she's calling her ex, asking him to get back together but he's turning her down... 'I hate to say it but I told you so...' Fairly self explanatory lyrics. Beautiful ballad.
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