"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 a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else
He'd trade the world
For the good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down
When a man loves a woman
He'd spend his very last dime
Just trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way
Baby that's the way it ought to be
When this man loves
When this man really loves a woman
I give you everything, I mean everything
Baby everything I got
Just trying to hold on
To your precious love
Baby, baby please
Please don't treat me bad, oh
Wow Michael
You know that was pretty sensational
But I have a slighty different take on things
This is a man's world
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Nothing
Without a woman or a girl
You see
Man made the cars
To take us over the road
Man made the trains
To carry the heavy load
Man made the electric light
To take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water
Like Noah made the ark
This is a man's world, a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl
When a man loves a woman
Man makes them happy
'Cause man makes them toys
When a man loves a woman, yeah
You know that man makes that money
To buy from another man
The world would mean nothing without a woman
Woman or a girl, oh yeah
When a man loves
This is a man's world, oh it's a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Not one little thing
Without, without a woman or a girl
You know I need (I need)
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Not one little thing
This is a man's world (when a man loves a woman)
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else
He'd trade the world
For the good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down
When a man loves a woman
He'd spend his very last dime
Just trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way
Baby that's the way it ought to be
When this man loves
When this man really loves a woman
I give you everything, I mean everything
Baby everything I got
Just trying to hold on
To your precious love
Baby, baby please
Please don't treat me bad, oh
Wow Michael
You know that was pretty sensational
But I have a slighty different take on things
This is a man's world
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Nothing
Without a woman or a girl
You see
Man made the cars
To take us over the road
Man made the trains
To carry the heavy load
Man made the electric light
To take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water
Like Noah made the ark
This is a man's world, a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl
When a man loves a woman
Man makes them happy
'Cause man makes them toys
When a man loves a woman, yeah
You know that man makes that money
To buy from another man
The world would mean nothing without a woman
Woman or a girl, oh yeah
When a man loves
This is a man's world, oh it's a man's world
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Not one little thing
Without, without a woman or a girl
You know I need (I need)
But it wouldn't mean nothing
Not one little thing
This is a man's world (when a man loves a woman)
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