"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.
Everybody love love loves, everybody
Everybody love love loves, everybody
Everybody love love loves, everybody
Everybody loves a lover
Everybody loves a lover
All I do, do, do when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 saying get a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow breaking my heart in two oh baby
At night, when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 say I need a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow making my heart and soul go crazy
[Chorus]
I miss you now, now, now
You're looking bow wow, wow
I'm slipping down, down, down
I miss you now, now, now
I miss you now, now, now
You're looking bow wow, wow
I'm slipping down, down, down
I miss you now, now, now
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
Oh I
You're talking like you're gonna do the stupid thing
Everybody wants to see you do that thing
We're jumping in together when the bottle spins
They wanna see it stop and let the fun begin
You're talking like you're gonna do the stupid thing
Everybody wants to see you do that thing
We're jumping in together when the bottle spins
They wanna see it stop and let the fun begin
All I do, do, do when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 saying get a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow breaking my heart in two oh baby
At night, when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 say I need a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow making my heart and soul go crazy
[Chorus]
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
Oh I
Everybody love love loves, everybody
Everybody love love loves, everybody
Everybody loves a lover
Everybody loves a lover
All I do, do, do when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 saying get a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow breaking my heart in two oh baby
At night, when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 say I need a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow making my heart and soul go crazy
[Chorus]
I miss you now, now, now
You're looking bow wow, wow
I'm slipping down, down, down
I miss you now, now, now
I miss you now, now, now
You're looking bow wow, wow
I'm slipping down, down, down
I miss you now, now, now
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
Oh I
You're talking like you're gonna do the stupid thing
Everybody wants to see you do that thing
We're jumping in together when the bottle spins
They wanna see it stop and let the fun begin
You're talking like you're gonna do the stupid thing
Everybody wants to see you do that thing
We're jumping in together when the bottle spins
They wanna see it stop and let the fun begin
All I do, do, do when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 saying get a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow breaking my heart in two oh baby
At night, when my demons hit
I dial 9-9-9 say I need a doctor
So damn tired of your shadow making my heart and soul go crazy
[Chorus]
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
I remember living that dream
Twenty minutes in a hotel bar
Then I slipped into your girlfriends jeans
And I remember, said baby hold tight
Twenty hours in the twilight zone
The only lovers in the world that night
Oh I
Lyrics submitted by horse_tears
Miss You Bow Wow Lyrics as written by Nick Coler Myra Boyle
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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