"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 believed in us baby
I believed in this love
From we would always
Be together
To I would always be the only one
You said I'd never be lonely
Now here I am all alone
I let you take me from
This is forever
To that's just the way love goes
Breakin' up's
The best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody else's maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing we'll never do
Your words
I still remember you
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Said I been getting all your messages
You're beggin' me to call you up
How you were wrong about it
And all you think about is
How you cant quit thinking bout us
I been lying here cryin' baby
Going back and forth all night
From I cant live without ya
To better off without ya
I keep coming back to you were right
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody else's maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing we'll never do
Your words
I still remember you
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Even if I wanted to
Going right through me
Your words
Going right through me
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Breakin' up
Breakin' up's
The best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody elses maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing I'll never do
Your words
I just want to thank you for
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Even if I wanted to
Breakin' up
It's the best thing we'll ever do
I believed in this love
From we would always
Be together
To I would always be the only one
You said I'd never be lonely
Now here I am all alone
I let you take me from
This is forever
To that's just the way love goes
Breakin' up's
The best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody else's maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing we'll never do
Your words
I still remember you
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Said I been getting all your messages
You're beggin' me to call you up
How you were wrong about it
And all you think about is
How you cant quit thinking bout us
I been lying here cryin' baby
Going back and forth all night
From I cant live without ya
To better off without ya
I keep coming back to you were right
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody else's maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing we'll never do
Your words
I still remember you
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Even if I wanted to
Going right through me
Your words
Going right through me
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Breakin' up's the best thing we'll ever do
Breakin' up
Breakin' up's
The best thing we'll ever do
Couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Right now
We're broken down baby
Neither one of us
Wants to be somebody elses maybe
Makin' up's
The best thing I'll never do
Your words
I just want to thank you for
Breakin' it to me
Goin' right through me
I couldn't go back
Even if I wanted to
Even if I wanted to
Breakin' up
It's the best thing we'll ever do
Lyrics submitted by cutehorsechick75
Even If I Wanted To Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Steele Chuck Jones
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