"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.
When the morning sun streaks across my room
And I've waken up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road, once again it seems
All I've left behind, is a chain of broken dream
But you know I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
How I wish that love, is all we need to live
What a life we'd live, 'cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong, deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign could be keeping us apart
When you know I love
Yes I love you
And if I could only find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life of mine didn't cross our minds
All the answers were found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Just to pay the rent, I must leave you all alone
But you know I made me choice many years ago
And this traveling life is the only one I know
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
And I've waken up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road, once again it seems
All I've left behind, is a chain of broken dream
But you know I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
How I wish that love, is all we need to live
What a life we'd live, 'cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong, deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign could be keeping us apart
When you know I love
Yes I love you
And if I could only find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life of mine didn't cross our minds
All the answers were found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Just to pay the rent, I must leave you all alone
But you know I made me choice many years ago
And this traveling life is the only one I know
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
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But You Know I Love You Lyrics as written by Mike Settle
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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