"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.
Baby got his feelings hurt singing that old standard
You can't break a rule that ain't been made
By starlight chasing ponytails through mushroom clouds and black fields
I don't want to feel this entertained
Sitting on a crowded coach staring at the stereo
Watching all the hippies through the haze
From Gentle Soul to Santa Stones no one wants to be alone
But you know you can't always have your way
So tell me what you are going to do now
You got everything you wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
Farmer he is a sentient being sipping on his canteen
Passes it to me but I can't say thanks
Poco she stays clear of me, remembers all those bad scenes
If she'd just sit still I could explain
That every time I f***ed her mind it is cause I thought I was in love
And I woke up with that same thought today
Well it so it goes, the ebb and flo, happiness was never us
If it's all free why would you ever pay?
So tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you've wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
Yeah you do
Yeah you do
So tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you've wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
So tell me what you are going to do now
You got everything you wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
Cause you get everything you want and you still feel down
You can't break a rule that ain't been made
By starlight chasing ponytails through mushroom clouds and black fields
I don't want to feel this entertained
Sitting on a crowded coach staring at the stereo
Watching all the hippies through the haze
From Gentle Soul to Santa Stones no one wants to be alone
But you know you can't always have your way
So tell me what you are going to do now
You got everything you wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
Farmer he is a sentient being sipping on his canteen
Passes it to me but I can't say thanks
Poco she stays clear of me, remembers all those bad scenes
If she'd just sit still I could explain
That every time I f***ed her mind it is cause I thought I was in love
And I woke up with that same thought today
Well it so it goes, the ebb and flo, happiness was never us
If it's all free why would you ever pay?
So tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you've wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
Yeah you do
Yeah you do
So tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you've wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
You get everything you want and you still feel down
So tell me what you are going to do now
You got everything you wanted and you are still let down
Tell me what you are going to do now
Cause you get everything you want and you still feel down
Lyrics submitted by jethrothekid, edited by bruxadoll
Spoiled Lyrics as written by Lamont Herbert Dozier Beau Alexander Dozier
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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