"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.
We all walk around
And waste life
It's just gonna go on forever
Like there's some eternal endless supply
Of what it takes to keep us alive
There might be a day
Where everything goes away to remind us
How ungrateful our culture is
We need to take time
To replace what's stolen from mother nature
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
We only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
I once heard Grace Jones say
"I have my own concept of time"
I always think bout' that cause I've always felt like
I was running a little behind
But what's in front of me
I don't know
'Cause I can't see what hasn't started to grow
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
And we only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
Wake up, world
Can't you see the earth is crying?
Wake up, world
Can't you see all the clouds are dying?
And maybe one day there won't be rainbows
Grass won't be green and the sky won't be blue
I don't wanna see a cyclone
There's no sun, no moon, no me, no you
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
We only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
And waste life
It's just gonna go on forever
Like there's some eternal endless supply
Of what it takes to keep us alive
There might be a day
Where everything goes away to remind us
How ungrateful our culture is
We need to take time
To replace what's stolen from mother nature
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
We only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
I once heard Grace Jones say
"I have my own concept of time"
I always think bout' that cause I've always felt like
I was running a little behind
But what's in front of me
I don't know
'Cause I can't see what hasn't started to grow
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
And we only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
Wake up, world
Can't you see the earth is crying?
Wake up, world
Can't you see all the clouds are dying?
And maybe one day there won't be rainbows
Grass won't be green and the sky won't be blue
I don't wanna see a cyclone
There's no sun, no moon, no me, no you
We only had one sun, one moon, one me
One you
And we only have a little time to show how much we love
The sun (the sun) the moon (the moon)
How much I really love you
We only have a little bit of time (time, time, time)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
1 Sun Lyrics as written by Miley Ray Cyrus Oren Yoel Kleinman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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