"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.
What if I were to leave you,
But then you fell back in love with me?
How could you ever let me go
How could you ever, ever let me go
I scream your name across the bar
I carry pictures of your Neil Young guitar, guitar
Though I just can't seem to forget you
Not ever, just as long as I left you
You're my baby, you
Never made it through to you
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earth quake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake
How could you ever let me go
How could you ever, ever let me go
I scream your name across the bar
I carry pictures of your Neil Young guitar, guitar
Though I just can't seem to forget you
Not ever, just as long as I left you
You're my baby, you
Never made it through to you
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earth quake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
But then you fell back in love with me?
How could you ever let me go
How could you ever, ever let me go
I scream your name across the bar
I carry pictures of your Neil Young guitar, guitar
Though I just can't seem to forget you
Not ever, just as long as I left you
You're my baby, you
Never made it through to you
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earth quake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake
How could you ever let me go
How could you ever, ever let me go
I scream your name across the bar
I carry pictures of your Neil Young guitar, guitar
Though I just can't seem to forget you
Not ever, just as long as I left you
You're my baby, you
Never made it through to you
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earth quake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake
If I were the last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
If there was an earthquake, last girl
And you were the last boy
Left here on this planet
And there was an earthquake
Maybe then you'd love
Maybe then you'd love me
Lyrics submitted by brittneyxbliss
Then You'd Love Me Lyrics as written by Stefani Germanotta
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Fashion of His Love (: I'm pretty sure this is the demo for that, before it became Fashion of His Love. Also, I believe this song is called Earthquake (Then You'd Love Me). It also took me ages to find the correct version of this song, well the one that sounded the best because most of them make her voice really low or really high pitched...but this is a good version :
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Enjoy :D