"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.
Don't like the weather
When it's always the same
Don't like a candle
When I can't start the flame
Slow boat to China to get next to you
My heart's shipwrecked baby
Cross the ocean blue
Just for you, oh anything for you
Oh God of heaven
I'm stranded with no clue
'Cause I'm always the lone wolf again
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
Yea
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
So here the story will take a new twist
Suddenly the girl could not resist
She liked every little thing that I had to give
I was high-flying baby
Now that's the way to live
You, oh anything for you
Oh God of heaven
I tell you, you ain't got a bloody clue
'Cause no more will I be the lone wolf again
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
What I say
I don't know much about philosophy
But I swear there's something happenin' here
'Cause I don't know much about no chemistry
But I, but I swear, I swear (swear)
Bet you won't believe what I've got to say
I wish the cat would go
So this dirty rat could play
Don't like these four walls, knock them down
To tell you the truth
I can't stand the way you hang around, you
Anything for you
Dear God of heaven
Lay back down the law that's true
'Cause I won't play the lone wolf again
Yeah
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
Tell me is it the truth
Was I born to be the lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
When it's always the same
Don't like a candle
When I can't start the flame
Slow boat to China to get next to you
My heart's shipwrecked baby
Cross the ocean blue
Just for you, oh anything for you
Oh God of heaven
I'm stranded with no clue
'Cause I'm always the lone wolf again
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
Yea
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
So here the story will take a new twist
Suddenly the girl could not resist
She liked every little thing that I had to give
I was high-flying baby
Now that's the way to live
You, oh anything for you
Oh God of heaven
I tell you, you ain't got a bloody clue
'Cause no more will I be the lone wolf again
(A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf)
What I say
I don't know much about philosophy
But I swear there's something happenin' here
'Cause I don't know much about no chemistry
But I, but I swear, I swear (swear)
Bet you won't believe what I've got to say
I wish the cat would go
So this dirty rat could play
Don't like these four walls, knock them down
To tell you the truth
I can't stand the way you hang around, you
Anything for you
Dear God of heaven
Lay back down the law that's true
'Cause I won't play the lone wolf again
Yeah
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
I don't know why things are always this way
I still don't know but I got to say
Tell me is it the truth
Was I born to be the lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
A lone, a lone, a lone, a lone wolf
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Lone Wolf Lyrics as written by Corey Hart
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