"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.
Darling you must know that you are only mine
Not for just right now but all the time
Your sweet ways I cannot forget
Are the only things that you said on the day we met
This love I try to fight but I couldn't know love too long
And I knew the way that I was, I wouldn't be round too long
Your sweet ways I cannot forget
When I think about all the things you said
To help me through my days
Now I need you more desperately than I ever did
All the things we've done, all the things you say
Just drives me outta my head
So baby, please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
I want you to stay with me, baby, yeah
Please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
Please take my love, that's all I have to give
Just right now you're giving me a reason to live
Help me understand what I feel is real
For no love has meant this much to me
In the past couple of years
And if you let me there is nothing I wouldn't do for you
And if you trust me with your love
Then I will make your dreams come true
So baby, please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
I just want you to stay a while with me, baby
Please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
C'mon and stay
Oh, c'mon take me by the hand, oh
Heaven, I want you to cherish me c'mon, c'mon
Not for just right now but all the time
Your sweet ways I cannot forget
Are the only things that you said on the day we met
This love I try to fight but I couldn't know love too long
And I knew the way that I was, I wouldn't be round too long
Your sweet ways I cannot forget
When I think about all the things you said
To help me through my days
Now I need you more desperately than I ever did
All the things we've done, all the things you say
Just drives me outta my head
So baby, please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
I want you to stay with me, baby, yeah
Please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
Please take my love, that's all I have to give
Just right now you're giving me a reason to live
Help me understand what I feel is real
For no love has meant this much to me
In the past couple of years
And if you let me there is nothing I wouldn't do for you
And if you trust me with your love
Then I will make your dreams come true
So baby, please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
I just want you to stay a while with me, baby
Please, please, won't you stay with me forever?
C'mon and stay
Oh, c'mon take me by the hand, oh
Heaven, I want you to cherish me c'mon, c'mon
Lyrics submitted by loveablelo06
Stay with Me Forever Lyrics as written by Ann Sanders Al L. Green
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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