"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 woke up one morning
Seen my baby fly away
Sugar don't go
She said I don't be treatin' her
Right by the things I say
Sugar don't go
Don't go I feel I'll be left alone
And I'll cry
Oh in the rain
Early one morning I packed her bags
She said she gotta leave me now
I've done her wrong
I said baby I'm gonna change
Gonna change for the better
Sugar don't go
You can't be leaving me so alone
And I'll cry in the rain
In the rain
Oh in the rain
In the rain
Sugar go
Now sugar go you leave me alone
As you packed your bags
You've got your plane on the road
I said oh why'd you leave
Oh why'd you leave
You gotta leave me alone
I'm feeling sad
I'm feeling sad
You gotta back off
Baby you treat me
Baby you treat me
My life and I could take my time
I lose it
What I have
Is what I have
Is what I give to you
And I feel I'm gone
I've been crying
What you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna pack your bags
And where you gonna stay
Say where you gonna go
Who you gonna ho'
Where you gonna lay your hat today
I said what you gotta change what you gonna do
Where you gonna lay your mines down
What you gonna do
What you gonna take
Where you gonna go baby
Who you gonna
Stay with me again
I said move it on
Oh I said move it on
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on down the line
Well on down the line
I said pack your bags now baby
You gotta move it on down the line
I said I want to tell you
Say, what you gonna do
Who you gonna stay
Where you gonna ho' your ass out all over town
Baby, where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
What you gonna do with your time
I said what you gonna do
Who you gonna take
Where you gonna lay your hat down
Where you gonna call your home
Where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
What you gonna do with your time
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on
I said move it on
Hey you gotta move it on down the line
Well on down the line
I said move it on down
I said move it on down
Said what you gonna do
Where you gonna stay
Who you gonna ho' your ass out
Baby where you lay your hat today
I said what you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna go and spend your time to be
Baby,
What you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna go
When I set you free
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on
Hey move it on
Oh won't you move it on down
On down the line
Oh baby, I said baby
I said baby
I said baby
I said what you gonna do you with your time now woman
You got asked to leave now
Pack your bags you gotta go
Where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
When you lay your hat down tighter
I said move it on
Seen my baby fly away
Sugar don't go
She said I don't be treatin' her
Right by the things I say
Sugar don't go
Don't go I feel I'll be left alone
And I'll cry
Oh in the rain
Early one morning I packed her bags
She said she gotta leave me now
I've done her wrong
I said baby I'm gonna change
Gonna change for the better
Sugar don't go
You can't be leaving me so alone
And I'll cry in the rain
In the rain
Oh in the rain
In the rain
Sugar go
Now sugar go you leave me alone
As you packed your bags
You've got your plane on the road
I said oh why'd you leave
Oh why'd you leave
You gotta leave me alone
I'm feeling sad
I'm feeling sad
You gotta back off
Baby you treat me
Baby you treat me
My life and I could take my time
I lose it
What I have
Is what I have
Is what I give to you
And I feel I'm gone
I've been crying
What you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna pack your bags
And where you gonna stay
Say where you gonna go
Who you gonna ho'
Where you gonna lay your hat today
I said what you gotta change what you gonna do
Where you gonna lay your mines down
What you gonna do
What you gonna take
Where you gonna go baby
Who you gonna
Stay with me again
I said move it on
Oh I said move it on
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on down the line
Well on down the line
I said pack your bags now baby
You gotta move it on down the line
I said I want to tell you
Say, what you gonna do
Who you gonna stay
Where you gonna ho' your ass out all over town
Baby, where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
What you gonna do with your time
I said what you gonna do
Who you gonna take
Where you gonna lay your hat down
Where you gonna call your home
Where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
What you gonna do with your time
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on
I said move it on
Hey you gotta move it on down the line
Well on down the line
I said move it on down
I said move it on down
Said what you gonna do
Where you gonna stay
Who you gonna ho' your ass out
Baby where you lay your hat today
I said what you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna go and spend your time to be
Baby,
What you gonna do
Who you gonna see
Where you gonna go
When I set you free
I said move it on
Oh won't you move it on
Hey move it on
Oh won't you move it on down
On down the line
Oh baby, I said baby
I said baby
I said baby
I said what you gonna do you with your time now woman
You got asked to leave now
Pack your bags you gotta go
Where you gonna go
Who you gonna see
When you lay your hat down tighter
I said move it on
Lyrics submitted by ShiverForMe
Rain Lyrics as written by Chauncey Hollis Raymond Martin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing
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No Comments on this one yet? Wow. The begining of the song, he's feeling sad and lonely because she's leaving him. Packing the bags and all. He's said he would change his ways for her. Obviously, she still insists on going, so then he calls her bluff. And the music tone changes along with it. Says, basically, here's your shit, get out of my house! Where's your ass gonna go to now? Where ya gonna eat, sleep, live without me supporting you?!? Huh? Then it seems as though she wants back. And he decides to make her wait it out and make up her mind before she comes back and the cycle starts again. She's realized that she's gonna miss out on the best thing she ever had, and she screwed it up by leaving! (At least I think so, anyway!) lol
No Comments on this one yet? Wow. The begining of the song, he's feeling sad and lonely because she's leaving him. Packing the bags and all. He's said he would change his ways for her. Obviously, she still insists on going, so then he calls her bluff. And the music tone changes along with it. Says, basically, here's your shit, get out of my house! Where's your ass gonna go to now? Where ya gonna eat, sleep, live without me supporting you?!? Huh? Then it seems as though she wants back. And he decides to make her wait it out and make up her mind before she comes back and the cycle starts again. She's realized that she's gonna miss out on the best thing she ever had, and she screwed it up by leaving! (At least I think so, anyway!) lol
EXCELLENT song, one of my favorites on the album, and I love the solo at the end. I completely agree with FreezeSukka on the meaning. The second part feels so good to hear =)
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Freezesukka has the meaning down cold. Move it on...down the line.