"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.
Early this morning
I heard you knock upon my door
Early this morning
I heard you knock upon my door
I said, "Hello, Satan,
I believe it's time to go"
Me and the devil
We were walking side by side
Me and the devil
We were walking side by side
I'm gonna love your woman, Satan
'Til I'm satisfied
She said, "You may know your ways
But I've been dogged around"
"You may know your ways
But I can hear you come to dog me around"
Must be that evil spirit
Way deep down in the ground
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side
That way my evil spirit
Can rise up, take a Greyhound bus and ride
Everyone's tryin' to get to the bar
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven
In Heaven the band plays our favorite song
They play it one more time they play it all night long
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
And there is a party.
Everyone is there.
Everybody gonna leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothin' at all
Could be so exciting, could be this much fun.
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
And when the kiss is over, we'll start again.
It won't feel any different.
In fact it's exactly the same.
Its hard to imagine that nothin' at all
Could be so exciting, or this much fun
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
I heard you knock upon my door
Early this morning
I heard you knock upon my door
I said, "Hello, Satan,
I believe it's time to go"
Me and the devil
We were walking side by side
Me and the devil
We were walking side by side
I'm gonna love your woman, Satan
'Til I'm satisfied
She said, "You may know your ways
But I've been dogged around"
"You may know your ways
But I can hear you come to dog me around"
Must be that evil spirit
Way deep down in the ground
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side
That way my evil spirit
Can rise up, take a Greyhound bus and ride
Everyone's tryin' to get to the bar
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven
In Heaven the band plays our favorite song
They play it one more time they play it all night long
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
And there is a party.
Everyone is there.
Everybody gonna leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothin' at all
Could be so exciting, could be this much fun.
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
And when the kiss is over, we'll start again.
It won't feel any different.
In fact it's exactly the same.
Its hard to imagine that nothin' at all
Could be so exciting, or this much fun
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
Oh! Heaven.
It is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens
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Heaven Lyrics as written by Jerry Harrison David Byrne
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