"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.
As I've looked around
At the life I'm living
More and more I found
Life is for the giving
Children know the way
Loving and forgiving
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
Then we were very young
Love's a gift for sharing
But as we grow up
We forget the caring
Why must we go on
Distrusting and despairing
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
Innocent and free
Hear the children's laughter
Why can't people be
Happy ever after
Let this song of hope
Ring from every rafter
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
There in Neverland
See the children playing
Walking hand in hand
Innocent and playing
Can't we undrestand
A single word they're saying
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way.
At the life I'm living
More and more I found
Life is for the giving
Children know the way
Loving and forgiving
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
Then we were very young
Love's a gift for sharing
But as we grow up
We forget the caring
Why must we go on
Distrusting and despairing
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
Innocent and free
Hear the children's laughter
Why can't people be
Happy ever after
Let this song of hope
Ring from every rafter
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
There in Neverland
See the children playing
Walking hand in hand
Innocent and playing
Can't we undrestand
A single word they're saying
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way
All over the world
The children are singing
All over the world
You see them at play
Why must we destroy
The joy they are bringing
All over the world
Let love show the way.
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All over the World Lyrics as written by Charles Tobias Al Frisch
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