"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.
All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Lots of chocolate for me to eat
Lots of coal burnin', lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Oh, so loverly sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Oh, just someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Wouldn't that be loverly and?
All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
A lots of chocolate for me to eat
And lots of coal burnin', lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
Oh, so lovely sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Oh, that be loverly
Oh, so lovely sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Wouldn't that be loverly?
Wouldn't that be loverly?
Wouldn't that be loverly?
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Lots of chocolate for me to eat
Lots of coal burnin', lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Oh, so loverly sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Oh, just someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Wouldn't that be loverly and?
All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
A lots of chocolate for me to eat
And lots of coal burnin', lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
Oh, so lovely sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Oh, that be loverly
Oh, so lovely sittin' absobloomin'lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over the window sill
Someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly
Wouldn't that be loverly?
Wouldn't that be loverly?
Wouldn't that be loverly?
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Wouldn't It Be Loverly Lyrics as written by Frederick Loewe Alan Jay Lerner
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