"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.
You know everything that I'm afraid of
You do everything I wish I did
Everybody wants you, everybody loves you
I know I should tell you how I feel
I wish everyone would disappear
Every time you call me
I'm too scared to be me
And I'm too shy to say
Ooh, I got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
You know, I'm the one that you can talk to
Sometimes you tell me things that I don't wanna know
I just wanna hold you
You say exactly how you feel about her
I wonder, could you ever think of me that way
I got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
Ooh, I wish I could tell somebody
But there's no one to talk to, nobody knows
I've got a crush on you
A crush on you, I got a crush
(Hey, hey-yeah, hey-yeah-yeah)
(I got a crush, I got a crush on you)
You say everything that no one says
But I feel everything that you're afraid to feel
I will always want you, I will always love you
I've got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
I've got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
(Yeah-yeah) a crush on you (ah, yeah-yeah)
I've got a crush, I got a crush on you
I've got a crush, I got a crush
Crush baby, I got a crush on you
I got a crush on you
You do everything I wish I did
Everybody wants you, everybody loves you
I know I should tell you how I feel
I wish everyone would disappear
Every time you call me
I'm too scared to be me
And I'm too shy to say
Ooh, I got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
You know, I'm the one that you can talk to
Sometimes you tell me things that I don't wanna know
I just wanna hold you
You say exactly how you feel about her
I wonder, could you ever think of me that way
I got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
Ooh, I wish I could tell somebody
But there's no one to talk to, nobody knows
I've got a crush on you
A crush on you, I got a crush
(Hey, hey-yeah, hey-yeah-yeah)
(I got a crush, I got a crush on you)
You say everything that no one says
But I feel everything that you're afraid to feel
I will always want you, I will always love you
I've got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
A crush on you
I've got a crush on you
I hope you feel the way that I do
I get a rush
When I'm with you
Ooh, I've got a crush on you
(Yeah-yeah) a crush on you (ah, yeah-yeah)
I've got a crush, I got a crush on you
I've got a crush, I got a crush
Crush baby, I got a crush on you
I got a crush on you
Lyrics submitted by hoochiemona
Crush Lyrics as written by Meghan Haas Steve Schmoll
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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the punk cover's better
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hey home grown punker who sings the punk cover of this??
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I just found out that it's Noise Ratchet who covers the punk version of Mandy Moore's "Crush." I think both versions are completely different and I like both of them for different reasons.
ohh alright thanks
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