"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.
You're wearing out your welcome wagon
Scraped ya up to drag ya
Home on the range you got the flame
So now you suck some honeys
Comb your hair get out of bed
And wash your face, now look you're all
Alone in your room you feel the gloom
So now you curse the day you're
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
You talk of love and hope someday
You won't be feeling so
Neglected, all your promises
And now you turn to me and scream
It's hectic at the bottom
And it's lonely at the top, so run to
Mommy's always waitin'
But this time she blew her top, you say you're
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Ah your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Ohh your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
Scraped ya up to drag ya
Home on the range you got the flame
So now you suck some honeys
Comb your hair get out of bed
And wash your face, now look you're all
Alone in your room you feel the gloom
So now you curse the day you're
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
You talk of love and hope someday
You won't be feeling so
Neglected, all your promises
And now you turn to me and scream
It's hectic at the bottom
And it's lonely at the top, so run to
Mommy's always waitin'
But this time she blew her top, you say you're
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Ah your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
Sorry you missed the boat
Sorry that's all she wrote
I don't wanna hear it
Mmm your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Ohh your talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
Talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear it
T-t-talk is cheap
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
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Talk Is Cheap Lyrics as written by Thomas Carl Keifer
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