"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.
Baby gotta quit your cryin'
About your lyin' to your old man
Because I know, you know and he knows
I'm your Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
I wanna give ya little taste of heaven
And he only wants to hold your hand
Because I know, you know and he knows
I'm your Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
Good God, Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
Yeah, lipstick is all on my collar
The fruit baby is on my vine
Well girl I'm gonna make a momma
Hoot and holler.. out my name
You gotta quit all your complainin'
And baby tellin' me that I don't know
Because I know, you know and he knows
That life is just a honky tonk show
Can't you hear them
Big city horns blowin'
Clear across the town
Let's take a cake walk over to Gabriel
And blow your Cherry Poppin' Daddy down
Oh yeah, Cherry Poppin' Daddy down
Yeah, lipstick is all on my collar
The fruit baby is on my vine
Well girl, I'm gonna make a momma
Hoot and holler out my name
About your lyin' to your old man
Because I know, you know and he knows
I'm your Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
I wanna give ya little taste of heaven
And he only wants to hold your hand
Because I know, you know and he knows
I'm your Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
Good God, Cherry Poppin' Daddy man
Yeah, lipstick is all on my collar
The fruit baby is on my vine
Well girl I'm gonna make a momma
Hoot and holler.. out my name
You gotta quit all your complainin'
And baby tellin' me that I don't know
Because I know, you know and he knows
That life is just a honky tonk show
Can't you hear them
Big city horns blowin'
Clear across the town
Let's take a cake walk over to Gabriel
And blow your Cherry Poppin' Daddy down
Oh yeah, Cherry Poppin' Daddy down
Yeah, lipstick is all on my collar
The fruit baby is on my vine
Well girl, I'm gonna make a momma
Hoot and holler out my name
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Cherry Poppin' Daddy Strut Lyrics as written by Steve Perry
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