"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.
Way up in the sky, moon and planets fly
Comets streak and shooting stars fall down
But I'm just sitting here, sipping on my second beer
And doing my star gazing on the ground
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Pretty blondes walk by, sexy smiles say, "Hi"
But how's a man to choose the one that's right
Then my eyes saw you and my body knew
That I just found my angel for tonight
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Just working on making your heavenly bodies all mine
Comets streak and shooting stars fall down
But I'm just sitting here, sipping on my second beer
And doing my star gazing on the ground
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Pretty blondes walk by, sexy smiles say, "Hi"
But how's a man to choose the one that's right
Then my eyes saw you and my body knew
That I just found my angel for tonight
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah, baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Just working on making your heavenly bodies all mine
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Heavenly Bodies Lyrics as written by Gloria Nissenson Elaine P Lifton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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