"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.
You're only pretty as you feel
Only pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel
Just as pretty as you feel inside
When you wake up in the morning
Rub some sleep from your eye
Look inside your mirror
Comb your hair
Don't give no vanity a second thought
No, no, no
Beauty's only skin deep
It goes just so far 'cause
You're only pretty as you feel
As pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel
So girl, don't hang yourself up
On no plastic face
A little bit of soap will wipe away
Any grease
'Cause
You're only pretty as you feel
Say, you're only pretty as you feel inside
Strip
So now you're feeling so pretty
Now you're feeling so good
Now you're ready to face the world
Now you're feeling good
Go out there and knock them silly girl
Go out there, show them how to thrill
Go out there show them how to thrill
Oh, go
You're only pretty as you feel
Say, you're only pretty as you feel
Mama
You're only pretty as you feel (pretty as you feel inside)
You're only pretty as you feel
Feelin' pretty, feelin' pretty
You're only pretty as you feel
Feelin' so pretty, feelin' so pretty
Feelin' so pretty, feelin' so pretty
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty mama
Only pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel
Just as pretty as you feel inside
When you wake up in the morning
Rub some sleep from your eye
Look inside your mirror
Comb your hair
Don't give no vanity a second thought
No, no, no
Beauty's only skin deep
It goes just so far 'cause
You're only pretty as you feel
As pretty as you feel inside
You're only pretty as you feel
So girl, don't hang yourself up
On no plastic face
A little bit of soap will wipe away
Any grease
'Cause
You're only pretty as you feel
Say, you're only pretty as you feel inside
Strip
So now you're feeling so pretty
Now you're feeling so good
Now you're ready to face the world
Now you're feeling good
Go out there and knock them silly girl
Go out there, show them how to thrill
Go out there show them how to thrill
Oh, go
You're only pretty as you feel
Say, you're only pretty as you feel
Mama
You're only pretty as you feel (pretty as you feel inside)
You're only pretty as you feel
Feelin' pretty, feelin' pretty
You're only pretty as you feel
Feelin' so pretty, feelin' so pretty
Feelin' so pretty, feelin' so pretty
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty mama
Lyrics submitted by EscObAR123, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Pretty as You Feel Lyrics as written by Joey Covington Jack Cassidy
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing
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Great version of a great song,
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