"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
Mama took everything
See you change and leaving
Come on, come on, baby, yeah
Telling go with you
Man, he don't call back
I'm worried, worried
Take him, take my time to go
And I wonder and I'm happy well say
Yeah, I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, Tired
And write you, and write you
Yeah, and leave me i'll turn you away
Like a fool
More happy than sad and again
I'm in a hurry, oh
Please don't go away
By the colors out of place
Please don't hurry
Turn your back
Back outside
Yeah, You come
Oh where, oh where
Oh and i tell him, tell him get in line
Oh calling stand again
Watch him, watch him as he smiles
You never can tell it's coming
And i don't want to wonder again
I'm begging you for a female (Sounds like female, at least)
Taking, taking all my time
How old and lay asleep
Oh yeah
I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, I'm running for ya to, for ya
Yeah, and scurries
And I mind
I don't, I don't
Yeah, leave me back home to my trance
And I'm saying it
Oh, baby
I'm too worried for my health
And the reasons change
Please don't forget
To turn me back
Like a (?)
Please don't worry
Our lover yeah
Yeah, I scream and say
Yeah, turning back, turning back
Oh yeah
Come and turn back the screen
And it's open
Yeah
Darkness it needs me again
Please don't worry
About the colors 'round your eyes
Just because
What lies inside the smile
Oh yeah
Lover lie, lover lie
My running, feet too fast
Well I run back and call it an answer
Come on, come on give me time
And i receive
And i don't even question why
I say I'll come again
I say I'll come again
Mama took everything
See you change and leaving
Come on, come on, baby, yeah
Telling go with you
Man, he don't call back
I'm worried, worried
Take him, take my time to go
And I wonder and I'm happy well say
Yeah, I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, Tired
And write you, and write you
Yeah, and leave me i'll turn you away
Like a fool
More happy than sad and again
I'm in a hurry, oh
Please don't go away
By the colors out of place
Please don't hurry
Turn your back
Back outside
Yeah, You come
Oh where, oh where
Oh and i tell him, tell him get in line
Oh calling stand again
Watch him, watch him as he smiles
You never can tell it's coming
And i don't want to wonder again
I'm begging you for a female (Sounds like female, at least)
Taking, taking all my time
How old and lay asleep
Oh yeah
I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, I'm running for ya to, for ya
Yeah, and scurries
And I mind
I don't, I don't
Yeah, leave me back home to my trance
And I'm saying it
Oh, baby
I'm too worried for my health
And the reasons change
Please don't forget
To turn me back
Like a (?)
Please don't worry
Our lover yeah
Yeah, I scream and say
Yeah, turning back, turning back
Oh yeah
Come and turn back the screen
And it's open
Yeah
Darkness it needs me again
Please don't worry
About the colors 'round your eyes
Just because
What lies inside the smile
Oh yeah
Lover lie, lover lie
My running, feet too fast
Well I run back and call it an answer
Come on, come on give me time
And i receive
And i don't even question why
I say I'll come again
I say I'll come again
Lyrics submitted by Nelly, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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