"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.
Company
Always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh I was born six gun in my hand
Behind a gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me
Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
Rebel souls
Deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the sword
Now these towns
They all know our name six gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say
Bad company
And I won't deny
Bad, bad company
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
Bad company
I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
And I say it's
Bad company oh yeah, yeah
Bad company
'Til the day I die oh yeah
Tell me that you are not a thief
Oh but I am
Bad company
It's the way I play
Dirty for dirty
Oh somebody double-crossed me
Double-cross, double-cross
Yeah
We're bad company
Kill in cold blood
Always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh I was born six gun in my hand
Behind a gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me
Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
Rebel souls
Deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the sword
Now these towns
They all know our name six gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say
Bad company
And I won't deny
Bad, bad company
'Til the day I die
'Til the day I die
Bad company
I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
And I say it's
Bad company oh yeah, yeah
Bad company
'Til the day I die oh yeah
Tell me that you are not a thief
Oh but I am
Bad company
It's the way I play
Dirty for dirty
Oh somebody double-crossed me
Double-cross, double-cross
Yeah
We're bad company
Kill in cold blood
Lyrics submitted by jhines0042
Bad Company Lyrics as written by Paul Rodgers Simon Kirke
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Really? You think that a band from Great Britain wrote a song about defecting from the Cival War? Jesus, what a retard!
"You have an opinion that's different from my opinion? Jesus, what a retard!" Shut the fuck up and don't bother coming back, simpleton. You're nothing but Internet scum. And yes, it IS possible for a person from one country to write about a different country; I checked. I wrote a poem about Japan and didn't get deported. Crazy, I know. Fuckin' magnets, how do they work.