"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.
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right"
Oh, mommy dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "whatchu gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls they wanna have fun
Oh, girls they wanna have
That's all they really want, some fun
When the working day is done
You know girls they wanna have fun
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have
Some boys take a beautiful girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now (when the working day is done)
What's the matter with you? (You know girls)
Girls just wanna have fun now (they wanna have fun)
(Come on, come on)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun (what's the matter with you?)
And the boys they wanna have fun (girls just wanna have fun now)
And the girls they wanna have fun
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Come on (fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun (wanna have fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun (come on, come on)
And the girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now (oh)
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (come on)
Come on (come on)
Hey now, hey now (oh mommy dear we're )
What's the matter with you? (Not the fortunate ones))
Girls just wanna have fun now
You know girls they wanna have fun, come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right"
Oh, mommy dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "whatchu gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls they wanna have fun
Oh, girls they wanna have
That's all they really want, some fun
When the working day is done
You know girls they wanna have fun
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have
Some boys take a beautiful girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now (when the working day is done)
What's the matter with you? (You know girls)
Girls just wanna have fun now (they wanna have fun)
(Come on, come on)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun (what's the matter with you?)
And the boys they wanna have fun (girls just wanna have fun now)
And the girls they wanna have fun
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Come on (fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun (wanna have fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun (come on, come on)
And the girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now (oh)
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now (come on)
Come on (come on)
Hey now, hey now (oh mommy dear we're )
What's the matter with you? (Not the fortunate ones))
Girls just wanna have fun now
You know girls they wanna have fun, come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Lyrics submitted by magicnudiesuit
Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) Lyrics as written by Lolly Vegas Robert Hazard
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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once i googled my friends name and found a video of him drunkenly singing along and dancing in his underwear to this song. then i told him. then it disappeared. which was really sad because that was definitely one of the best moments of my life. he's a funny kid. he had a tendency to hang out in the dorm hallways in his boxerbriefs, anyway.
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