"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.
Until Sally I was never happy
I needed so much more
Rain clouds
Oh, they used to chase me
Down they would pour
Join my tears
Allay my fears
Sent to me from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're my world
Pop, pop, pop, pop
Blow, blow bubble gum
You taste of cherryade
There is something here you must show me
From what you are made
Sugar and spice
And all things nice
Sent to me from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're my world
You are my world
Your eyes are gazing back
From every little piece of glass
You seem to smile from every blade
Sally Cinnamon
You are my world
Then I put the letter back
In the place where it was found
In the pocket of a jacket
On a train in town
Sent to her from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're her world
I needed so much more
Rain clouds
Oh, they used to chase me
Down they would pour
Join my tears
Allay my fears
Sent to me from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're my world
Pop, pop, pop, pop
Blow, blow bubble gum
You taste of cherryade
There is something here you must show me
From what you are made
Sugar and spice
And all things nice
Sent to me from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're my world
You are my world
Your eyes are gazing back
From every little piece of glass
You seem to smile from every blade
Sally Cinnamon
You are my world
Then I put the letter back
In the place where it was found
In the pocket of a jacket
On a train in town
Sent to her from heaven
Sally Cinnamon you're her world
Lyrics submitted by Bo, edited by Paronomasia
Sally Cinnamon Lyrics as written by John Squire Ian George Brown
Lyrics © Revolver Music Limited, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Sally is a thing not a person. Sally is heroin. Why choose the word cinnamon? coz it's a light brown colour like heroin is in Manchester anyway. Like Golden Brown or indeed Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. If you read the Cinnamon Girl lyrics you'll see that like in Sally Cinnamon there's the heroin metaphor as a girl. The first part of the song describes exactly as why people do heroin.
Spot on!<br /> Nice to see someone's on the ball!