"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.
(Ooh, ooh)
(Ah, ah, ah-ha)
(Ooh, ooh)
(Ah, ah, ah-ha)
I got my eyes on you
You're everything that I see
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
I can't get over you
You left your mark on me
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
Just hold on, we're going home
Just hold on, we're going home
It's hard to do these things alone
Just hold on, we're going home, home
I got my eyes on you
You're everything that I see
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
I can't get over you
You left your mark on me
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it (oh yeah)
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
So just hold on, we're going home (going home)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home)
It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home), home (going home)
You're the girl, you're the one
Gave you everything I loved
I think there's something, baby
I think there's something, baby
You're the girl, you're the one
Gave you everything I loved
I think there's something, baby
I think there's something, baby
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
Oh, just hold on, we're going home (going home)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home)
It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home), home (going home)
(Ah, ah, ah-ha)
(Ooh, ooh)
(Ah, ah, ah-ha)
I got my eyes on you
You're everything that I see
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
I can't get over you
You left your mark on me
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
Just hold on, we're going home
Just hold on, we're going home
It's hard to do these things alone
Just hold on, we're going home, home
I got my eyes on you
You're everything that I see
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
I can't get over you
You left your mark on me
I want your hot love and emotion
Endlessly
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it (oh yeah)
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
So just hold on, we're going home (going home)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home)
It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home), home (going home)
You're the girl, you're the one
Gave you everything I loved
I think there's something, baby
I think there's something, baby
You're the girl, you're the one
Gave you everything I loved
I think there's something, baby
I think there's something, baby
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
You act so different around me
'Cause you're a good girl and you know it
I know exactly who you could be
Oh, just hold on, we're going home (going home)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home)
It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)
Just hold on, we're going home (going home), home (going home)
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Hold On, We're Going Home Lyrics as written by Noah James Shebib Aubrey Drake Graham
Lyrics © CTM Outlander Music LC, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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He describes the rush you feel when you are deeply infatuated with someone. But the infatuation is one on different level. It doesn't stem from lust alone, it is deeper than that.
He reads this girl so well. Although she may act differently in the club, around friends, etc... she can be herself around him. & he loves her for her who she really is. She puts on a front, but he knows deep down she is a good girl, and she knows that too.
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I think this is hands down his best song yet. I believe the song means that regardless of who others see this girl as or what her past was he doesn't care, that he sees her for who she really is inside and the " you're a good girl and you know it, you act so different around me" is basically saying just that, that by his love and their relationship he knows that she is lady and a woman of heart and to him is innocent and someone he wants to protect and love he literally adores her. And he believes in her by saying " I know exactly who you could be" he lovingly accepts her past and all and only sees her as she is in the "now" and her future with him. And the hold on we're going home part (if you take from the video it's a rescue) but it's still a rescue because he's rescuing her from a life she doesn't deserve for a life he knows she's worthy of. And obviously the home is just saying you're with me from now on and the part when he says "it's hard to do these things alone" that can be taken in so many ways the girl of the story could be a stripper, prostitute or even just a woman with a difficult past who's trying to leave her past behind and he's saying she doesn't have to try to do all that alone because she has him to rely on. These are just my thoughts .
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