"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, it's 7 A.M. and she woke by the radio
Yeah, she rolled on over said, "Where did my man go?"
She's been a gunslinger's wife all her life
Now she fights when she's able
For the sake of the kids
When the knife's at their necks in the cradle
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
Well she's got all the kids and she's got all their uses
But she loves them the same for neglect and abuses
Well, she got a warm spot where they fall
When they made up last evenin'
He said, "don't read too much into the fact that I'm leaving"
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
How do I explain this? I mean, how do I put it into words?
One thing or another, but it's neither this or that
Actually, it's a collection of things
She said, "that's it, that's it, get out"
Her mother said, "kill him slow, at your leisure"
Ah, but desperate times call for desperate measures
So she went to the closet and she pulled the old gun down
"I'll put a bullet through his heart if he ain't home by sundown"
Yeah, 5:55 he comes walking in the front door smiling
He said, "don't read too much into what I ain't denying"
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
Well, I believe in you
Well, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe in you, alright, yeah, oh
Mm, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, she rolled on over said, "Where did my man go?"
She's been a gunslinger's wife all her life
Now she fights when she's able
For the sake of the kids
When the knife's at their necks in the cradle
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
Well she's got all the kids and she's got all their uses
But she loves them the same for neglect and abuses
Well, she got a warm spot where they fall
When they made up last evenin'
He said, "don't read too much into the fact that I'm leaving"
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
How do I explain this? I mean, how do I put it into words?
One thing or another, but it's neither this or that
Actually, it's a collection of things
She said, "that's it, that's it, get out"
Her mother said, "kill him slow, at your leisure"
Ah, but desperate times call for desperate measures
So she went to the closet and she pulled the old gun down
"I'll put a bullet through his heart if he ain't home by sundown"
Yeah, 5:55 he comes walking in the front door smiling
He said, "don't read too much into what I ain't denying"
She screams
"I'll believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight
I will believe in you or I'll be leaving you tonight"
Well, I believe in you
Well, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe in you, alright, yeah, oh
Mm, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I'll Believe in You (Or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight) Lyrics as written by Kenneth James Baker
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