"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.
There is nothin' like a dame lyrics
We've got sunlight on the sand
We've got moonlight on the sea
We've got mangos and bananas you can pick right off the tree
We've got volleyball and ping pong and a lot of dandy games
What don't we got? we don't got dames
We get packages from home
We get movies, we get shows
We get speeches from our skippers
And advice from tokeo
Wwe get letters doused with perfume, we get dizzy from the smell
What don't we get? you know darn well
We got nothing to put on a clean white suit for 'no clean white suit'
What we need there is no substitue for 'no substitute at all'
There is nothing like a dame nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame
We get restless, we feel blue, we feel lonely and in grief
We feel every kind of feeling but the feeling of relief
Well if your hungry as a wolf felt when he met red riding hood
What don't we feel, we don't feel good
Lots of things in life are beautiful but brothers 'oh my brother'
There is one particular thing that is nothing
Whatsoever in any shape or form like any other
And I like that shape... of thing'
There is nothing like a dame nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame
Nothing else is but the same nothing in the world,
Has the soft and wavy frame like the silhouette of a dame
I said there is 'there is' there's nothing 'there's nothing'
There's absolutely nothing 'absolutely nothing'
Said there is nothing like a frame 'of a dame'
So suppose a dame ain't bright or completly free
From flaws or as faithful as a
Bird dog or as kind as santa clause
Its a waste of time to worry over things that they have not
Be thankful for the things they've got
There is nothing that you can name that is anything like a dame
There are no books like a dame, nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame and nothing thinks like a dame
Nothing acts like a dame or atracts like a dame
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by putting him near
A girly womanly female feminine dame'
Funky disco chicken
There is nothing like a disco
We've got sunlight on the sand
We've got moonlight on the sea
We've got mangos and bananas you can pick right off the tree
We've got volleyball and ping pong and a lot of dandy games
What don't we got? we don't got dames
We get packages from home
We get movies, we get shows
We get speeches from our skippers
And advice from tokeo
Wwe get letters doused with perfume, we get dizzy from the smell
What don't we get? you know darn well
We got nothing to put on a clean white suit for 'no clean white suit'
What we need there is no substitue for 'no substitute at all'
There is nothing like a dame nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame
We get restless, we feel blue, we feel lonely and in grief
We feel every kind of feeling but the feeling of relief
Well if your hungry as a wolf felt when he met red riding hood
What don't we feel, we don't feel good
Lots of things in life are beautiful but brothers 'oh my brother'
There is one particular thing that is nothing
Whatsoever in any shape or form like any other
And I like that shape... of thing'
There is nothing like a dame nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame
Nothing else is but the same nothing in the world,
Has the soft and wavy frame like the silhouette of a dame
I said there is 'there is' there's nothing 'there's nothing'
There's absolutely nothing 'absolutely nothing'
Said there is nothing like a frame 'of a dame'
So suppose a dame ain't bright or completly free
From flaws or as faithful as a
Bird dog or as kind as santa clause
Its a waste of time to worry over things that they have not
Be thankful for the things they've got
There is nothing that you can name that is anything like a dame
There are no books like a dame, nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame and nothing thinks like a dame
Nothing acts like a dame or atracts like a dame
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by putting him near
A girly womanly female feminine dame'
Funky disco chicken
There is nothing like a disco
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There Is Nothin' Like a Dame Lyrics as written by Richard Rodgers Oscar Ii Hammerstein
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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