"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.
I'll tell you now the story of a friend of mine
A small town boy named 'saint divine'
At his red flamed hair they would laugh and stare
As he searched in vain for friends to find
His mother, father and brother too...
They told him "...we don't see the world like you..."
So he blew a kiss, he waved bye bye
For love... it don't live here
"all the tears he holds inside... he gotta go away
...are the tears he must hide..."
Looking for love...
So he goes to a big and bright city
Where friends ecstatic are never cruel
Forgets the clouds grabs the silver lining
The lipstick boy can boogaloo
And life is just one crazy ball
'cause down at king tut tuts he knows them all
But the queen is still a queer
And love... it don't live here.
"all the tears he holds inside... he gotta go away
...are the tears he must hide...looking for.
Looking for love...
All the love he fails to find...he gotta go away
...will his dreams run out of time? ...looking for,
Looking for love..."
Saint saint divine how you wear the woman
What one calls a sinner another will a saint
Who is to say what is right from wrong
It's Friday night! it's time to party
The sacred cow can 'bang-a-gong'
Sing you sinners, dance you saints
Anyway your body 'n' souls inclined.
Laugh you lovers at those who hate
In each an adam and eve entwined...
A small town boy named 'saint divine'
At his red flamed hair they would laugh and stare
As he searched in vain for friends to find
His mother, father and brother too...
They told him "...we don't see the world like you..."
So he blew a kiss, he waved bye bye
For love... it don't live here
"all the tears he holds inside... he gotta go away
...are the tears he must hide..."
Looking for love...
So he goes to a big and bright city
Where friends ecstatic are never cruel
Forgets the clouds grabs the silver lining
The lipstick boy can boogaloo
And life is just one crazy ball
'cause down at king tut tuts he knows them all
But the queen is still a queer
And love... it don't live here.
"all the tears he holds inside... he gotta go away
...are the tears he must hide...looking for.
Looking for love...
All the love he fails to find...he gotta go away
...will his dreams run out of time? ...looking for,
Looking for love..."
Saint saint divine how you wear the woman
What one calls a sinner another will a saint
Who is to say what is right from wrong
It's Friday night! it's time to party
The sacred cow can 'bang-a-gong'
Sing you sinners, dance you saints
Anyway your body 'n' souls inclined.
Laugh you lovers at those who hate
In each an adam and eve entwined...
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Saint Divine Lyrics as written by Morris Roycroft Gavin Friday
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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