"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.
She had wraparound legs, and she
Was twice his size
And when he saw her red thang, he
Was hypnotized
She just lying there waiting for him,
Stretched out on a silky bed
She got sheets like a net, made out of
Silver thread
He say, "I'm comin' atchoo," look out
When a bull sees red
He just had to do it he jump right
Into her web
She shake those long legs till he's
Weak in the knees
He say, "Baby you're the best thing I'll
Ever see!"
Take my love you'll find heaven in
The morning
Take my love and I'll carry
You away
Take my love you can have it if you
Want it
Take my love take my love
Well she wrap him up till he's lookin'
Like a silky dream
He say, "Awoo" with a satisfied
Scream
She take all his love then she be
Movin' on
But she be lookin' so good, he say,
"I just got to have some"
She say "Take it sucker!"
She come on so strong he just can't
Get away
When she say "Come here baby"
That's all she need to say
He jump right into the trap he got a
One-track mind
Black widow smiles, she say "Now he's
All mine!"
Was twice his size
And when he saw her red thang, he
Was hypnotized
She just lying there waiting for him,
Stretched out on a silky bed
She got sheets like a net, made out of
Silver thread
He say, "I'm comin' atchoo," look out
When a bull sees red
He just had to do it he jump right
Into her web
She shake those long legs till he's
Weak in the knees
He say, "Baby you're the best thing I'll
Ever see!"
Take my love you'll find heaven in
The morning
Take my love and I'll carry
You away
Take my love you can have it if you
Want it
Take my love take my love
Well she wrap him up till he's lookin'
Like a silky dream
He say, "Awoo" with a satisfied
Scream
She take all his love then she be
Movin' on
But she be lookin' so good, he say,
"I just got to have some"
She say "Take it sucker!"
She come on so strong he just can't
Get away
When she say "Come here baby"
That's all she need to say
He jump right into the trap he got a
One-track mind
Black widow smiles, she say "Now he's
All mine!"
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Black Widow Lyrics as written by Craig Chaquico Grace Slick
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