"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.
From rags to riches and back again. I throw my pearls at you swine. kiss and tell, kiss and tell. I do that all the time. "I'm a man in a million...ya! ya! ya! yo! very pleased to meet me?
Tell you what to do! put some money in my pocket, your hand on my heart. and I'll hold my head up high!" here she comes now... my queen of desire... tip my hat to this oooh indulgence. come
Aby! keep me warm! come're baby! keep me warm! "sad are my dreams but sweet are the tears.
Tears of true love. tears of regret. so... we all must cry! we all must cry!" "the world's forgiven! the world's forgot! the world's just singin' 'ba da bop bop bow!' no! the world won
Sten 'cause the world don't know that... 'that's life baby, ba da bop bop bow!' 'that's life baby! ba da bop bop bow. that's life' " my heart is broken, little pieces all over the floor. &q
Ome on! come're, pick me up, put me in your pocket". you win some and you lose some but that's life baby - ba da bop bop bow! I say - "buy me a drink and I'll be just like you.
Where do ya come from? what do you do? buy me a drink, I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you do? buy me a drink, I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you d
Ot; with your hearts handmade in heaven. lots of faith, hope and charity... no need to feed the poor. I got my dignity! I'm no beggar. I'm the man! set them up, I'll knock 'em down! a man in a m
N I've seen it all. you people rise, I just fall. from rags to riches and back again. I throw my pearls at you swine. kiss and tell, kiss and tell.
Oh! I do that all the time... put some money in my pocket your hand on my heart and I'll hold my head up high..."the world's forgiven. the world's forgot. the world's just singin' 'ba da bo
Bow!' no! the world won't listen 'cause the world don't know that 'that's life baby, ba da bop bop bow!' 'that's life baby! ba da bop bop bow. that's life' so let's, so let's, so let's dance! t
Life baby! ooh that's... life baby! life baby! buy me a drink and I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you do? " oh! my heart is broken, little pieces all over the floor.
;pick me up, put me in your pocket, take me home, keep me warm... " ya! ya! ... yo!
Tell you what to do! put some money in my pocket, your hand on my heart. and I'll hold my head up high!" here she comes now... my queen of desire... tip my hat to this oooh indulgence. come
Aby! keep me warm! come're baby! keep me warm! "sad are my dreams but sweet are the tears.
Tears of true love. tears of regret. so... we all must cry! we all must cry!" "the world's forgiven! the world's forgot! the world's just singin' 'ba da bop bop bow!' no! the world won
Sten 'cause the world don't know that... 'that's life baby, ba da bop bop bow!' 'that's life baby! ba da bop bop bow. that's life' " my heart is broken, little pieces all over the floor. &q
Ome on! come're, pick me up, put me in your pocket". you win some and you lose some but that's life baby - ba da bop bop bow! I say - "buy me a drink and I'll be just like you.
Where do ya come from? what do you do? buy me a drink, I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you do? buy me a drink, I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you d
Ot; with your hearts handmade in heaven. lots of faith, hope and charity... no need to feed the poor. I got my dignity! I'm no beggar. I'm the man! set them up, I'll knock 'em down! a man in a m
N I've seen it all. you people rise, I just fall. from rags to riches and back again. I throw my pearls at you swine. kiss and tell, kiss and tell.
Oh! I do that all the time... put some money in my pocket your hand on my heart and I'll hold my head up high..."the world's forgiven. the world's forgot. the world's just singin' 'ba da bo
Bow!' no! the world won't listen 'cause the world don't know that 'that's life baby, ba da bop bop bow!' 'that's life baby! ba da bop bop bow. that's life' so let's, so let's, so let's dance! t
Life baby! ooh that's... life baby! life baby! buy me a drink and I'll be just like you. where do you come from? what do you do? " oh! my heart is broken, little pieces all over the floor.
;pick me up, put me in your pocket, take me home, keep me warm... " ya! ya! ... yo!
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