"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.
I've been watchin' my weight
I've been tryin' to do right
I've been tryin' to get a little more sleep at night
I've been workin' like a dog
I've been goin' to church
Yeah, I've been bein' so damn good, it hurts
I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
No, I don't wanna think
'Bout nothin' at all
I don't wanna sit around here all night, wishin' you'd call
I kinda wanna drown your memory
Kinda wanna raise my finger to all them used to be's
I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
Yeah, tonight I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
Kinda don't care
Hell, if you don't care
Then I kinda don't care
Aww hell, I don't care
I've been tryin' to do right
I've been tryin' to get a little more sleep at night
I've been workin' like a dog
I've been goin' to church
Yeah, I've been bein' so damn good, it hurts
I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
No, I don't wanna think
'Bout nothin' at all
I don't wanna sit around here all night, wishin' you'd call
I kinda wanna drown your memory
Kinda wanna raise my finger to all them used to be's
I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
Yeah, tonight I kinda wanna light up a couple smokes
Kinda want some Crown mixed in my Coke
Kinda wanna hole up in some corner booth somewhere
I kinda wanna find a pretty little thing
That's kinda like me, don't want no strings
Knowin' in the morinin' that it ain't goin' nowhere
But tonight, I kinda don't care
Kinda don't care
Hell, if you don't care
Then I kinda don't care
Aww hell, I don't care
Lyrics submitted by ahron11503
Kinda Don't Care Lyrics as written by Ross Copperman Rhett Akins
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, AMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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