"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.
(Our love was lost)
Hey, hey, haha (where'd you go? Where'd you)
(But now we've found it)
Oh yeah, uh (where'd you go? Where'd you go? Where'd you go?)
(Our love was lost, oh, lost)
Doin' the happy dance (where'd you, where'd you go?)
(And hope was gone)
Doin' the happy dance (where'd you go? Haha)
Doin' the happy dance (haha, yeah)
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home? (Can I spit?)
Hey, I'm a fuckin' workaholic with a passion in my heart
Treatin' rappin' as a art in which you have to be apart of
I just copped a new car to hear it start up
Try to do the right thing and please karma
All I want to know is
Where the fuck did you have to go?
I've been waitin' on you, baby
Why don't you leave and come on home?
I can't be mad, I'm livin' my dream
(Goin' all around the globe)
Though you said you think you love me
(You need to let me know)
So I've been fuckin' all these hoes
And I've been blowin' all this cash
'Cause, baby, this just the beginnin'
And I'ma make all of it back
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (hey, hey, hey) (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (hey, hey, hey) (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (hey) (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home? (Hey, hey, hey)
It's all good, everybody tryna eat tonight
Tryna go to sleep, havin' good dreams tonight
You go home, it might get better
All I know, it don't last forever
So take it while you got it, try to get a little more
They say I'm gettin' better than I ever been before
Well, that's for sure, tell 'em what I do
Rap keep me fed like a spoon gettin' soup
I've been out here on the road and now they missin' me at home
All these ex-girls that I used to know are hittin' up my phone
But I ain't here, I guess you can call back
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, I think I'll take all that
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home?
Yeah
Huh-huh, and it gets no better than this
Huh, yeah, it gets no better than this
Yeah, it gets no better, yeah, it gets no better
Yeah, it gets no better, this shit forever
Get no better, it get no better
Yeah, it get no better, yeah, this shit forever
Bum-bada-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum, ba-dum
You can cut it here and then we're done
Hey, hey, haha (where'd you go? Where'd you)
(But now we've found it)
Oh yeah, uh (where'd you go? Where'd you go? Where'd you go?)
(Our love was lost, oh, lost)
Doin' the happy dance (where'd you, where'd you go?)
(And hope was gone)
Doin' the happy dance (where'd you go? Haha)
Doin' the happy dance (haha, yeah)
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home? (Can I spit?)
Hey, I'm a fuckin' workaholic with a passion in my heart
Treatin' rappin' as a art in which you have to be apart of
I just copped a new car to hear it start up
Try to do the right thing and please karma
All I want to know is
Where the fuck did you have to go?
I've been waitin' on you, baby
Why don't you leave and come on home?
I can't be mad, I'm livin' my dream
(Goin' all around the globe)
Though you said you think you love me
(You need to let me know)
So I've been fuckin' all these hoes
And I've been blowin' all this cash
'Cause, baby, this just the beginnin'
And I'ma make all of it back
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (hey, hey, hey) (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (hey, hey, hey) (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (hey) (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home? (Hey, hey, hey)
It's all good, everybody tryna eat tonight
Tryna go to sleep, havin' good dreams tonight
You go home, it might get better
All I know, it don't last forever
So take it while you got it, try to get a little more
They say I'm gettin' better than I ever been before
Well, that's for sure, tell 'em what I do
Rap keep me fed like a spoon gettin' soup
I've been out here on the road and now they missin' me at home
All these ex-girls that I used to know are hittin' up my phone
But I ain't here, I guess you can call back
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, I think I'll take all that
(Our love was lost)
Where'd you go? What'd you do?
How the hell you make me fall in love with you? (But now we've found it)
And then you leave, now you're gone
All I got is this damn song (and if you flash your heart)
So I can feel but I can't touch (oh, heart)
You said my love was a bit too much (I won't deny it)
Broke my heart, can't find no crutch
So why don't you come on back home?
Yeah
Huh-huh, and it gets no better than this
Huh, yeah, it gets no better than this
Yeah, it gets no better, yeah, it gets no better
Yeah, it gets no better, this shit forever
Get no better, it get no better
Yeah, it get no better, yeah, this shit forever
Bum-bada-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum, ba-dum
You can cut it here and then we're done
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Love Lost Lyrics as written by Malcolm Mccormick
Lyrics © COHEN AND COHEN, Songtrust Ave
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