"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.
Pretty, if the sun won't shine
I'll be comin' out to meet you
I'll be there to make you mine.
And pretty, if the rain will pour
I'll be knockin' at your window
I'll be begging you for more.
It's as if you've come along too soon
And I'm tryn'a fit you in but I can't seem to find the room.
And cutie, if it all falls through
We can piece it back together
I can learn to trust you too.
You're just too good to lose
And I can't refuse
So don't make me choose between the two
I'm fed up in here, in my atmosphere
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
Pretty, teach me wrong from right
'Cause in love there are no answers
And in life there is no lie.
And pretty, if the sun won't shine
We can piece it back together
And I know, I know you're mine.
You're just too good to lose
And I can't refuse
So don't make me choose between the two
I'm fed up in here, in my atmosphere
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
I'll be comin' out to meet you
I'll be there to make you mine.
And pretty, if the rain will pour
I'll be knockin' at your window
I'll be begging you for more.
It's as if you've come along too soon
And I'm tryn'a fit you in but I can't seem to find the room.
And cutie, if it all falls through
We can piece it back together
I can learn to trust you too.
You're just too good to lose
And I can't refuse
So don't make me choose between the two
I'm fed up in here, in my atmosphere
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
Pretty, teach me wrong from right
'Cause in love there are no answers
And in life there is no lie.
And pretty, if the sun won't shine
We can piece it back together
And I know, I know you're mine.
You're just too good to lose
And I can't refuse
So don't make me choose between the two
I'm fed up in here, in my atmosphere
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
Don't you know who you are?
You're my shooting star.
Lyrics submitted by Delilah888
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