"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 got a date in San Jose
I got a flight that I gotta take tonight
'Cause I got plans in Tokyo, Japan
I got a cabin in Switzerland
I got a dinner in Rio de Janeiro
Wake up next to pharaohs all over in Cairo
Sleepin' in, it's the weekend, New Zealand
And then it's back to CO to rock the show
I'm sorry, but I have to go
There's so many ladies that I know
You could try to get me here to stay
But you know that I'll be leaving here today
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
Stumble in on the streets of Berlin
We can French kiss through the border fences
There's underwear on the mic stand in Iceland
Then it's back to NYC on the MIC
I've got a party in Saudi Arabia
Drunk in a building so high in Dubai
I wanna touch you in a parka in Russia
It was nice to see you
But this is goodbye
I'm sorry, but I have to go
There's so many ladies that I know
You could try to get me here to stay
But you know that I'll be leaving here today
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
Aishiteru
Te amo
I love you
Je t'aime
Everywhere I go, I always say the same thing
In Russia, Japan, Brazil, Spain
Everywhere I go
They seem to scream the same name (x2)
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
I got a flight that I gotta take tonight
'Cause I got plans in Tokyo, Japan
I got a cabin in Switzerland
I got a dinner in Rio de Janeiro
Wake up next to pharaohs all over in Cairo
Sleepin' in, it's the weekend, New Zealand
And then it's back to CO to rock the show
I'm sorry, but I have to go
There's so many ladies that I know
You could try to get me here to stay
But you know that I'll be leaving here today
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
Stumble in on the streets of Berlin
We can French kiss through the border fences
There's underwear on the mic stand in Iceland
Then it's back to NYC on the MIC
I've got a party in Saudi Arabia
Drunk in a building so high in Dubai
I wanna touch you in a parka in Russia
It was nice to see you
But this is goodbye
I'm sorry, but I have to go
There's so many ladies that I know
You could try to get me here to stay
But you know that I'll be leaving here today
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
Aishiteru
Te amo
I love you
Je t'aime
Everywhere I go, I always say the same thing
In Russia, Japan, Brazil, Spain
Everywhere I go
They seem to scream the same name (x2)
I gotta go now
I really wanna stay
'Cause I know how to say
I'm always in a different timezone
My home's where I roam
I'm never gonna stop
I'm a rolling stone
'Cause I know how to say
Love in many different ways
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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Te Amo, jack. please just realize it