"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.
Let me love you
Let me be around
I promise you, I won't make a sound
'Cause the wind is blowing hard you see
We'll take a ride just you and me
Let's go down to the south of France
But we can love
I think there is a chance
Go down for the holiday
To live those happy thoughts again
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
I get to you at the speed of sound
Really fast when you're on the run
'Cause the world's closing in on us
A second later we're on the bus
You're so fine and I love her so
So beautiful, but I have to know
Is this real or is it just a game
Take a ride, won't come back the same
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all this time?
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all, all, all
(1...2...1... bring it back)
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all this time?
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
Let me be around
I promise you, I won't make a sound
'Cause the wind is blowing hard you see
We'll take a ride just you and me
Let's go down to the south of France
But we can love
I think there is a chance
Go down for the holiday
To live those happy thoughts again
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
I get to you at the speed of sound
Really fast when you're on the run
'Cause the world's closing in on us
A second later we're on the bus
You're so fine and I love her so
So beautiful, but I have to know
Is this real or is it just a game
Take a ride, won't come back the same
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all this time?
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all, all, all
(1...2...1... bring it back)
How are you gonna run at the speed of time?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
How are you gonna breathe if you're underground?
How many times will you try?
How are you gonna walk at the rainbows edge?
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Is it worth all this time?
And if I could be with you
I keep on wonder why
If this whole escapade
Ooh ooh wonderchild
Everything comes to an end
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Wonderchild Lyrics as written by Walz Christian Patrik Berggren
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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