"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.
Verse 1
Midnight falls the day's end
No phone calls where she at
Up and down just looking
For my baby to come back
I'm going so crazy
Trying to find my baby
Where she at I don't no
Its lost love this love hurts
Pre-Chorus
Just bring my baby back to me
I don't care if I don't sleep
Just bring my baby back to
Me in my arms (yeah)
Just bring my baby by my side
I want to look straight in her eyes
I need to know if she loves
Me for me (yeah)
Chorus
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
Bring back my baby.
Verse 2
All the nations falling down
My world is crumbling
All hopes i've given up
I just want my baby
Tears pouring down my eyes
The sun is slowly going
Where is my baby
Why won't she come back?
Pre-Chorus
Just bring my baby back to me
I don't care if I don't sleep
Just bring my baby back to
Me in my arms (yeah)
Just bring my baby by my side
I want to look straight in her eyes
I need to know if she loves
Me for me (yeah)
(Is this love?)
(Is it for real?)
(Let's go back)
Chorus
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
Spoken
Someone ask me one day if love hurts
This is my answer
Verse 3
Yes love hurts (Mm Yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be (Oo woah)
Yes love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be
Bring back my baby
Midnight falls the day's end
No phone calls where she at
Up and down just looking
For my baby to come back
I'm going so crazy
Trying to find my baby
Where she at I don't no
Its lost love this love hurts
Pre-Chorus
Just bring my baby back to me
I don't care if I don't sleep
Just bring my baby back to
Me in my arms (yeah)
Just bring my baby by my side
I want to look straight in her eyes
I need to know if she loves
Me for me (yeah)
Chorus
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
Bring back my baby.
Verse 2
All the nations falling down
My world is crumbling
All hopes i've given up
I just want my baby
Tears pouring down my eyes
The sun is slowly going
Where is my baby
Why won't she come back?
Pre-Chorus
Just bring my baby back to me
I don't care if I don't sleep
Just bring my baby back to
Me in my arms (yeah)
Just bring my baby by my side
I want to look straight in her eyes
I need to know if she loves
Me for me (yeah)
(Is this love?)
(Is it for real?)
(Let's go back)
Chorus
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
This love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be ( Oo woah)
Spoken
Someone ask me one day if love hurts
This is my answer
Verse 3
Yes love hurts (Mm Yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be (Oo woah)
Yes love hurts (yeah)
I wanna go back
Back to the way it use to be
Bring back my baby
Lyrics submitted by dre1173962
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