"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.
I sit by the cutting on the Beaconsfield line.
He's watching me watching the trains go by.
And they move so fast, boy, they really fly.
He's still watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
And the way he stares: feel like locking my door
And pulling my phone from the wall.
His eyes, like lights from a laser, burn
Making my hair stand making the goose-bumps crawl.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me
I'm watching you watching him watching me watching.
Stares.
Stares.
At the cocktail party with a Bucks Fizz in my hand
I feel him watching me watching the girls go by.
And they move so smooth without even trying.
He's still watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
And the crowd thins and he moves up close but he doesn't speak.
I have to look the other way.
But curiosity gets the better part of me and I peek:
Got two drinks in his hand see his lips move
What the hell's he trying to say?
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
I'm watching you watching him watching me watching.
Stares. Stares.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
He's watching me watching the trains go by.
And they move so fast, boy, they really fly.
He's still watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
And the way he stares: feel like locking my door
And pulling my phone from the wall.
His eyes, like lights from a laser, burn
Making my hair stand making the goose-bumps crawl.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me
I'm watching you watching him watching me watching.
Stares.
Stares.
At the cocktail party with a Bucks Fizz in my hand
I feel him watching me watching the girls go by.
And they move so smooth without even trying.
He's still watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
And the crowd thins and he moves up close but he doesn't speak.
I have to look the other way.
But curiosity gets the better part of me and I peek:
Got two drinks in his hand see his lips move
What the hell's he trying to say?
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
I'm watching you watching him watching me watching.
Stares. Stares.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you
Watching the trains go by.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
Lyrics submitted by Lateralus518
Watching Me Watching You Lyrics as written by Ian Anderson
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