"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.
I can't get enough of you, baby
I can't get enough of you, baby
Yes, it's true
Baby, yes, it's true
Whenever we kiss, I get a feeling like this
I get to wishin' that there were two of you
My heart cries out, more baby
It feels so nice
I want your arms to wrap around me twice
I can't get enough of you, baby
I can't get enough of you, baby
Right or wrong
Baby, right or wrong
When you had to go, I hated the thought
I only wish the night was twice as long
My heart cries out, more baby
I love you so much
I wish that there was more of you to touch
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby, yeah
Whenever we kiss, I get a feeling like this
I get to wishing that were two of you
My heart cries out, more baby
I love you so much
I wish that there was more of you to touch
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby
I can't get enough of you, baby
Yes, it's true
Baby, yes, it's true
Whenever we kiss, I get a feeling like this
I get to wishin' that there were two of you
My heart cries out, more baby
It feels so nice
I want your arms to wrap around me twice
I can't get enough of you, baby
I can't get enough of you, baby
Right or wrong
Baby, right or wrong
When you had to go, I hated the thought
I only wish the night was twice as long
My heart cries out, more baby
I love you so much
I wish that there was more of you to touch
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby, yeah
Whenever we kiss, I get a feeling like this
I get to wishing that were two of you
My heart cries out, more baby
I love you so much
I wish that there was more of you to touch
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby (can't get enough of you, baby)
I can't get enough of you, baby
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LOL! Ummmm....no.
I am saying that Smash Mouth's version is an inferior COPY of the original version that The Colour Field did of this song. I know that ? and the Mysterians were the composers and first performers of this song. (Even if you know nothing more than "96 Tears," you can pick up on that fact. They are both so similar.) But if you listen to Smash Mouth's version, it is much closer to Colour Field's original version of this ARRANGEMENT of the song than it is to ? And The Mysterians' performance. And Smash Mouth's version is SOOO much more inferior to Color Field's in this respect. The originating performance by ? And The Mysterians is much thinner and the arrangement is not as close as Colour Field's and Smash Mouth's are to each other, so I was not using that as a basis for comparison.
Of course, Smash Mouth makes EVERYTHING they sing pretty much suck, so....
Seems we were both wrong. I had totally forgotten that the ? & The Mysterians was not the first version, nor were they the composers. To me, they had made it so much their own that I was thinking that it was their song. What I forgot was that the first version was by the Four Seasons, and is a Linzer/Randall composition. Then the Toys (the group responsible for A Lover's Concerto) with their version. The ? & The Mysterians version followed, then the Colour Field, then finally Smash Mouth totally ruined it.
i think this is a good song too but i love jus bout all of Smash Mouth's songs
This is also definitely one of my favorite songs. And I agree that most of Smash Mouth's songs are good. I don't get it, though - why are there so few comments on them, when much less popular bands have so many??
This is also definitely one of my favorite songs. And I agree that most of Smash Mouth's songs are good. I don't get it, though - why are there so few comments on them, when much less popular bands have so many??
You folks are all talking about Smash Mouth's songs being so good, but this is not a Smash Mouth song -- they merely covered it. This was originally a song by a band called The Colour Field, and their original version is WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY better than the crap version by these hacks.
hahahahah dude not colour field u mean ? And the Mysterians ....what a loser