"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.
How come you look so sad
You got me feeling bad
'Cause I know that I can make you happy
Don't want to see you blue
But you won't give me a chance
The guys that you hang around
Just try to bring you down
And I don't like it at all
Girl give my love a try
I'll keep you satisfied I promise you
Girl I adore you I'll do anything for you
You oughta be with me
Girl I need you I'll try my best to please you
Can't you see you oughta be with me
When you come home at night
I'll make you feel so right
See this is what I'll do
I'll run your bubble bath
Massage you with these big strong hands
Wouldn't you like that Baby
Kiss you from head to toe
Because I want you so
I'm telling you the truth Baby
And after all of the above
We'll make real serious love
Can't you see you want to be with me
Repeat 1 two times
Check this out nobody would do you like I
would do
I got a special kind of whip appeal
Kiss it rub it flip it over
Remember Baby I'm your Casanova
So forget the other brother he's nothing but
a zero
And dial my number let me be a hero
Girl Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could tell
That you really oughta be with G.
You see you oughta be with me
The G.E.R. and the A.L.D.
The L.E.V.E.R. and the T.
You really oughtta be with me
(Ad lib)
Repeat 1
(Ad lib)
Repeat 1
(Fade)
You got me feeling bad
'Cause I know that I can make you happy
Don't want to see you blue
But you won't give me a chance
The guys that you hang around
Just try to bring you down
And I don't like it at all
Girl give my love a try
I'll keep you satisfied I promise you
Girl I adore you I'll do anything for you
You oughta be with me
Girl I need you I'll try my best to please you
Can't you see you oughta be with me
When you come home at night
I'll make you feel so right
See this is what I'll do
I'll run your bubble bath
Massage you with these big strong hands
Wouldn't you like that Baby
Kiss you from head to toe
Because I want you so
I'm telling you the truth Baby
And after all of the above
We'll make real serious love
Can't you see you want to be with me
Repeat 1 two times
Check this out nobody would do you like I
would do
I got a special kind of whip appeal
Kiss it rub it flip it over
Remember Baby I'm your Casanova
So forget the other brother he's nothing but
a zero
And dial my number let me be a hero
Girl Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could tell
That you really oughta be with G.
You see you oughta be with me
The G.E.R. and the A.L.D.
The L.E.V.E.R. and the T.
You really oughtta be with me
(Ad lib)
Repeat 1
(Ad lib)
Repeat 1
(Fade)
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You Oughta Be with Me Lyrics as written by Gerald Edward Levert Marc Joseph Gordon
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