"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.
Who said
Who said
{Who said} I've been sneaking out with your friend
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} I've been seen in the Holiday Inn
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} That I used another name
{Who said}
{Who said} Somebody said I was about to do my thing
{Who said}
Who said I was shacking up
Who's makin' all these rumors up now
Yeah...hea...hea...
{Who said} If you ring my telephone
{Who said}
{Who said} That you wouldn't find me at home
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} I've been sneaking out with your friend
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} Somebody said I was seem in the Holiday Inn
{Who said}
Who sad that I was shackin' up, yeah
Who's makin' all them rumors up now
{Who said} I was doin' my thing
{Who said} I do the same thing I do all the time
{Who said} I been shackin' up
{Who said} Yeah
{Who said} I don't want your friend
{Who said} I don't want her
{Who said} I've been sneakin' out
{Who said} I was home, girl
Who said
Who said
Who said
Who said
Say, man
Somebody said they caught me doin' my thing
They must have seen a ghost
Oh, you did
Well, catch this funk
{Who said} Did you like that, baby
(Mmm, hmm, I said, mmm, hmm)
{Who said}
{Who said} I hope you got what you were lookin' for
{Who said} (I got mine) I'll trade you for it
{Who said} Come on, baby, you gon' snag my groove
{Who said}
{Who said} Can you feel it
{Who said} Who said they seen me where
I ain't never been in there
{Who said} That wasn't me
{Who said} Maybe it was somebody that, uh, kinda looked that way
{Who said} Ha-ha, ooh
{Who said} I'm always doin' the right kinda stuff
{Who said}
{Who said} I want to know
{Who said}
{Who said} Not me, I'm always doin' the right stuff
{Who said} I want to know who said
{Who said} (Not me)
{Who said} Who said so, my dear
{Who said} I just don't sneak around like that
Who said
{Who said} I've been sneaking out with your friend
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} I've been seen in the Holiday Inn
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} That I used another name
{Who said}
{Who said} Somebody said I was about to do my thing
{Who said}
Who said I was shacking up
Who's makin' all these rumors up now
Yeah...hea...hea...
{Who said} If you ring my telephone
{Who said}
{Who said} That you wouldn't find me at home
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} I've been sneaking out with your friend
{Who said} Who said
{Who said} Somebody said I was seem in the Holiday Inn
{Who said}
Who sad that I was shackin' up, yeah
Who's makin' all them rumors up now
{Who said} I was doin' my thing
{Who said} I do the same thing I do all the time
{Who said} I been shackin' up
{Who said} Yeah
{Who said} I don't want your friend
{Who said} I don't want her
{Who said} I've been sneakin' out
{Who said} I was home, girl
Who said
Who said
Who said
Who said
Say, man
Somebody said they caught me doin' my thing
They must have seen a ghost
Oh, you did
Well, catch this funk
{Who said} Did you like that, baby
(Mmm, hmm, I said, mmm, hmm)
{Who said}
{Who said} I hope you got what you were lookin' for
{Who said} (I got mine) I'll trade you for it
{Who said} Come on, baby, you gon' snag my groove
{Who said}
{Who said} Can you feel it
{Who said} Who said they seen me where
I ain't never been in there
{Who said} That wasn't me
{Who said} Maybe it was somebody that, uh, kinda looked that way
{Who said} Ha-ha, ooh
{Who said} I'm always doin' the right kinda stuff
{Who said}
{Who said} I want to know
{Who said}
{Who said} Not me, I'm always doin' the right stuff
{Who said} I want to know who said
{Who said} (Not me)
{Who said} Who said so, my dear
{Who said} I just don't sneak around like that
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