"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.
The sun goes down and leaves me sad and blue
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
For you won't speak and I won't speak it's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me?
Whose cold, cold wars are never done and whose hearts just can't be free
So let's do right or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
And the sun goes down and leaves me sad and blue
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
Though you won't speak and I won't speak, that's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me?
Whose cold, cold wars are never done and whose hearts just can't be free
Now let's do right or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
For you won't speak and I won't speak it's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me?
Whose cold, cold wars are never done and whose hearts just can't be free
So let's do right or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
And the sun goes down and leaves me sad and blue
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
Though you won't speak and I won't speak, that's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me?
Whose cold, cold wars are never done and whose hearts just can't be free
Now let's do right or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
I just can't stand another cold, cold war with you
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This Cold War With You Lyrics as written by Floyd Tillman
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Peermusic Publishing
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