"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 need to feel your heartbeat
When you say you love me
I don't want to hear it
If it's something that you don't mean
If I had to leave you now
There would be an empty space
It doesn't matter anyhow
You can take your things
And go your own way
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight
I don't want the pictures
I don't want your sympathy
We don't have to be friends
We don't have to be enemies
In my head I break it down
And I'm absolutely sure
That you and I could work it out
Or we could kill the lights
On what we had before
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people
Well, we got something special
That should be enough
Nothing is predictable
When it comes to love
Maybe lately baby
It's been a little rough
But if you walk away tonight
We'll be two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight
When you say you love me
I don't want to hear it
If it's something that you don't mean
If I had to leave you now
There would be an empty space
It doesn't matter anyhow
You can take your things
And go your own way
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight
I don't want the pictures
I don't want your sympathy
We don't have to be friends
We don't have to be enemies
In my head I break it down
And I'm absolutely sure
That you and I could work it out
Or we could kill the lights
On what we had before
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people
Well, we got something special
That should be enough
Nothing is predictable
When it comes to love
Maybe lately baby
It's been a little rough
But if you walk away tonight
We'll be two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight
Lyrics submitted by onthefinishline
Two More Lonely People Lyrics as written by Kevin Kadish Antonina Armato
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Walt Disney Music Company, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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