"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.
You know I love it when you're down on your knees
And I'm a junkie for the way that you please
You shut me up when you swallow me down
My back to the wall you're going to town
[Chorus]
I almost told you that I loved you
Thank God I didn't 'cause it would have been a lie
I say the damnedest things when you're on top of me
I almost told you that I loved you
I hate to say it but it has to be said
You look so fragile as I fuck with your head
I know it shouldn't but it's getting me on
If sex is the drug then what is the cost?
[Chorus]
I'm not the one that you want
Not the one that you need
My love is like a fucking disease
You can give me your hand
You can make your demands
I'm the hardest mother fucker to please
[Chorus]
(I'm not the one that you want)
I almost told you that I loved you
(I'm not the one that you need)
Thank God I didn't 'cause it would have been a lie
(I'm not the one that you want)
I say the damnedest things when you're on top of me
(The one that you need)
I almost told you that I loved you
And I'm a junkie for the way that you please
You shut me up when you swallow me down
My back to the wall you're going to town
[Chorus]
I almost told you that I loved you
Thank God I didn't 'cause it would have been a lie
I say the damnedest things when you're on top of me
I almost told you that I loved you
I hate to say it but it has to be said
You look so fragile as I fuck with your head
I know it shouldn't but it's getting me on
If sex is the drug then what is the cost?
[Chorus]
I'm not the one that you want
Not the one that you need
My love is like a fucking disease
You can give me your hand
You can make your demands
I'm the hardest mother fucker to please
[Chorus]
(I'm not the one that you want)
I almost told you that I loved you
(I'm not the one that you need)
Thank God I didn't 'cause it would have been a lie
(I'm not the one that you want)
I say the damnedest things when you're on top of me
(The one that you need)
I almost told you that I loved you
Lyrics submitted by orangeweapon
I Almost Told You That I Loved You Lyrics as written by James Michael Jacoby Shaddix
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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