"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 won't let me meet all your friends
You say, it's for the best
But my instincts, I always follow
I believe, you're jealous
You use words like a weapon
You want to, cut me down, cut me down
Your affection leaves an emptiness
I need stronger love, stronger love
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
You get possessive and I get jumpy
I want it simple, I don't want no complication
You get possessive
And I get scared
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
You won't let me be by myself
You're scared, I won't think of you
But you're wrong, I think of you
All the while your charm is my prison
You smooth take me into staying
But I don't want this clinging love
I need a stronger love, different love
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody, just want somebody
You don't have to fight me to keep me
Here by your side just be kind
I'll stay with you all the while
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
Take care of me
Stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
Take care of me, take care of me
I want stronger love
Take care of me, take care of me
I want stronger love
You say, it's for the best
But my instincts, I always follow
I believe, you're jealous
You use words like a weapon
You want to, cut me down, cut me down
Your affection leaves an emptiness
I need stronger love, stronger love
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
You get possessive and I get jumpy
I want it simple, I don't want no complication
You get possessive
And I get scared
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
You won't let me be by myself
You're scared, I won't think of you
But you're wrong, I think of you
All the while your charm is my prison
You smooth take me into staying
But I don't want this clinging love
I need a stronger love, different love
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody, just want somebody
You don't have to fight me to keep me
Here by your side just be kind
I'll stay with you all the while
I want stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
Take care of me
Stronger love
Don't want a union made of jealousy
Don't want clinging love
Just want somebody who will take care of me
Take care of me, take care of me
I want stronger love
Take care of me, take care of me
I want stronger love
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Stronger Love Lyrics as written by Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading
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