"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.
Flamingo, like a flame in the sky
Flying over the island
To my lover nearby
Flamingo, with your tropical hue
For it's you I rely on
And the love that is true
The wind sings a song to you as you go
The song that I hear below
The murmuring heart
Flamingo, when the sun meets the sea
Say farewell to my lover
And hasten to me
Ah, oh, ah, oh, oh, oh
Flamingo
Flamingo
Flamingo, when the sun meets the sea
Say farewell to my lover
And hasten to me
Ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, ah
Flying over the island
To my lover nearby
Flamingo, with your tropical hue
For it's you I rely on
And the love that is true
The wind sings a song to you as you go
The song that I hear below
The murmuring heart
Flamingo, when the sun meets the sea
Say farewell to my lover
And hasten to me
Ah, oh, ah, oh, oh, oh
Flamingo
Flamingo
Flamingo, when the sun meets the sea
Say farewell to my lover
And hasten to me
Ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, ah
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Flamingo Lyrics as written by Ted Grouya Edmund Anderson
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