"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.
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Feeling kind of low inside
Longing to be by your side
See you there before my eyes
Oh, this love I feel has no disguise
But what's in a love when you feel so denied
I can't count all the times I've tried
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Sittin' in the dimmest of light
In my room with a view of the night
In the time it took for you to call
You left me holding onto nothing at all
I'll accept what I can
But I can't understand
Why you want it to end this way
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
I'll accept what I can
But I can't understand
Why you want it to end this way
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Feeling kind of low inside
Longing to be by your side
See you there before my eyes
Oh, this love I feel has no disguise
But what's in a love when you feel so denied
I can't count all the times I've tried
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Sittin' in the dimmest of light
In my room with a view of the night
In the time it took for you to call
You left me holding onto nothing at all
I'll accept what I can
But I can't understand
Why you want it to end this way
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
I'll accept what I can
But I can't understand
Why you want it to end this way
Something ain't right
But I'm never gonna let that something make me stop without a fight
No, something ain't right
And it's been on my mind just a little too much
And bringing me down
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
Something
Something ain't right
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Something Ain't Right Lyrics as written by Terry Allen David Byrne
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