"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.
Well, I've been ridin' a winning horse for a long, long time
Sometimes I wonder is this the end of the line
No one should take advantage of who they are
No man has got it made
If he thinks he does, he's wrong
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
I've seen it happen so many times, so many times before
Some man got so much money he doesn't worry no more
Or he's got such a pretty woman that'll treat him fine
Well, my friend has been a fool
It happens every time
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
I'm not tryin' to preach to no one, to no one at all
I've seen so many of my good friends just rise to fall
'Cause they got so much money or a woman so fine
Well, my friends have all been fools, it happens every time
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
What I say
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
What I say
Oh, every mother's son will rise and fall someday
Sometimes I wonder is this the end of the line
No one should take advantage of who they are
No man has got it made
If he thinks he does, he's wrong
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
I've seen it happen so many times, so many times before
Some man got so much money he doesn't worry no more
Or he's got such a pretty woman that'll treat him fine
Well, my friend has been a fool
It happens every time
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
I'm not tryin' to preach to no one, to no one at all
I've seen so many of my good friends just rise to fall
'Cause they got so much money or a woman so fine
Well, my friends have all been fools, it happens every time
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
What I say
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday
What I say
Oh, every mother's son will rise and fall someday
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Every Mother's Son Lyrics as written by Allen Collins Ronnie Van Zant
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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