"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.
Oops scooby-doo balena go gal go
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
She's my gal and I love her so
Oops scooby-doo balena go gal go
School bell's a'ringing
Everybody's going out
Going to the shack gonna shake it all about
Bopalena lookin like a rose from the wild
Man I dig that sweet juvenile
When she gets it going she's a real cool chick
Does the bebop like a pogo stick
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
She's my gal and I love her so
Oops scooby-doo balena go gal go
My patent leather boots on my hound dog feet
Me
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
She's my gal and I love her so
Oops scooby-doo balena go gal go
School bell's a'ringing
Everybody's going out
Going to the shack gonna shake it all about
Bopalena lookin like a rose from the wild
Man I dig that sweet juvenile
When she gets it going she's a real cool chick
Does the bebop like a pogo stick
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
Bopalena Bopalena
She's my gal
She's my gal and I love her so
Oops scooby-doo balena go gal go
My patent leather boots on my hound dog feet
Me
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Bopalena Lyrics as written by Webb Pierce Mel Tillis
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