"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.
Hey boy when you come around I misbehave boy
Do you feel my temperature rise?
How do you do this to me?
Hey!
You know it's so tough
Because you know I like to play rough
Always try to rile me up
Boy why you wanna test me?
Something about you
Makes me wanna do things
That I would never do
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
Feeling like BONNIE and Clyde
Putting it all on the line
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
I know I should know better than to indulge
Every time I do you bring me down down down into the fire with you
With this friction is just exactly what's so tempting
You say you need a partner in crime, boy
Give me the destruction
Something about us
Is tearing me up
But I just can't get enough
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
Feeling like BONNIE and Clyde
Putting it all on the line
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
Cause I've never been that girl
Creepin' on my floor on the low got me steaming up the windows
I don't know what's gotten into me
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
Do you feel my temperature rise?
How do you do this to me?
Hey!
You know it's so tough
Because you know I like to play rough
Always try to rile me up
Boy why you wanna test me?
Something about you
Makes me wanna do things
That I would never do
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
Feeling like BONNIE and Clyde
Putting it all on the line
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
I know I should know better than to indulge
Every time I do you bring me down down down into the fire with you
With this friction is just exactly what's so tempting
You say you need a partner in crime, boy
Give me the destruction
Something about us
Is tearing me up
But I just can't get enough
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
Feeling like BONNIE and Clyde
Putting it all on the line
(What's gotten into me?)
(What's gotten into me?)
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
Cause I've never been that girl
Creepin' on my floor on the low got me steaming up the windows
I don't know what's gotten into me
You bring out the worst in me
It must be something in the chemistry
You got me tripping baby
You bring out the worst in me boy
Hey!
Now I've got a thirst in me
I don't know what you did but it's a first for me
When we're together baby
You bring out the worst in me, boy
Hey!
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