"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.
Dance-ah feel the heat
Rock your body to the native beat
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
Well here I am, I got the beat
I'm gonna rock to the rhythm of the body heat
Come on now let's have big fun
Rock to the rhythm let's get undone
I've achieved my teenage dream
'Cause love was on my mind
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
And I'll never get enough
Of that native love
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
My car is my Ferrari and my body's Jack LaLanne
My clothes are by Armani and my hair is by Elaine
Tiffany and Cartier are telling me the time
This native love is restless and I'm just not satisfied
And I'll never get enough
Of that native love
Dance ride feel the heat
Rock your body to the body heat
What it looks like?
What it is?
Say pungra, jungra
Say damn to the thungra
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
Hey GQ man, here I stand
For everyone to see
And if I'm not your type, well that's alright
'Cuz that don't matter to me
Got the rhythm and the rhyme
I'm right on time
I'm gonna blow your mind
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
Rock your body to the native beat
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
Well here I am, I got the beat
I'm gonna rock to the rhythm of the body heat
Come on now let's have big fun
Rock to the rhythm let's get undone
I've achieved my teenage dream
'Cause love was on my mind
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
And I'll never get enough
Of that native love
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
My car is my Ferrari and my body's Jack LaLanne
My clothes are by Armani and my hair is by Elaine
Tiffany and Cartier are telling me the time
This native love is restless and I'm just not satisfied
And I'll never get enough
Of that native love
Dance ride feel the heat
Rock your body to the body heat
What it looks like?
What it is?
Say pungra, jungra
Say damn to the thungra
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
Hey GQ man, here I stand
For everyone to see
And if I'm not your type, well that's alright
'Cuz that don't matter to me
Got the rhythm and the rhyme
I'm right on time
I'm gonna blow your mind
This native love is restless
And I'm just not satisfied
Step by step
Slowly I turn
Step by step
Come on
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Native Love Lyrics as written by Orlando Bauman
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