"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 don't wanna get crippled and cracked
But keep hanging on I'm gonna read the riot act
The truth is the truth a fact is a fact
And once you get gone you ain't coming back
I've head it all before just like and echo
So shut down the lights that's the end of the show
So take it from me it's time to let go
But there's one last thing that I need to know
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
It's time to relax just pull up a seat
You can't ever win 'cause you can't compete
I've been to every city on every street
I know all the people that you'd like to meet
Simple is the story there's no sub plot
Life ain't a movie it's just a snap shot
You try to do a little 'cause you can't do allot
So tell me again 'cause I just forgot
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
How does it feel to be one of the crowd?
Locked inside and you're never allowed
The sad truth of a life never lived
Is when it's over you've got nothing to give
(Come on! Alright! Again!)
Well there's one more thing that I need to know
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
But keep hanging on I'm gonna read the riot act
The truth is the truth a fact is a fact
And once you get gone you ain't coming back
I've head it all before just like and echo
So shut down the lights that's the end of the show
So take it from me it's time to let go
But there's one last thing that I need to know
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
It's time to relax just pull up a seat
You can't ever win 'cause you can't compete
I've been to every city on every street
I know all the people that you'd like to meet
Simple is the story there's no sub plot
Life ain't a movie it's just a snap shot
You try to do a little 'cause you can't do allot
So tell me again 'cause I just forgot
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
How does it feel to be one of the crowd?
Locked inside and you're never allowed
The sad truth of a life never lived
Is when it's over you've got nothing to give
(Come on! Alright! Again!)
Well there's one more thing that I need to know
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I want to know before you gotta go
Who do you think you are?
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Who Do You Think You Are? Lyrics as written by David Baptiste Jean-paul Maunick
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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