"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.
Heh, I, I'm going, I'm going crazy
Ooh, I don't know why, what I'm doing, what I'm doing
See, baby I, apologize
For all the things that I've done that I've done
See I've known that I've been a fool for far too long
And baby you have it, I go around to wait, just come back to papa
Please baby, baby won't you stay
If you really love me then why are you leavin' me?
I can't think, think about this crazy day
I lose sleep just daydreamin' about you baby
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you lately (crazy baby)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you baby (I don't know what to do)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Thinkin' about you lately (crazy, crazy, crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, (crazy, crazy) when I can touch you
Crazy, crazy (I'm going crazy) when I can hold you
Crazy, crazy, (I'm going crazy) when I can see you again
(Said I'm going crazy)
(Said I'm going crazy)
Said I'm going crazy
I've finally realized, that you are my true love
And I had a lot of time to think,
and you're all I seem to keep think
To keep thinkin of, yeah
And now I know I need you, each and every day
I can't live without you, so don't run away
Baby you said that you love me
so why'd you leave me, why (why, why, why, why)
I can't think, think about this crazy day (tell me, baby, why are you leaving)
I lose sleep just to daydream about you baby (I'm going crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you lately (just thinkin')
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you baby (I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Thinkin' about you lately (crazy, crazy, crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, (crazy, crazy) when I can touch you
Crazy, crazy (I'm going crazy) when I can hold you
Crazy, crazy, (I'm going crazy) when I can see you again
If I can see you, I can see you
If I can see you, if I can see you, if I can see
If I can see you again then I would go
If I can see you again, I'd go crazy
I would go crazy
Oh, oh, I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
Matter of fact, I'm going crazy
I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
crazy, I'm going crazy
I think I'm going crazy, I think I'm going crazy
I think I'm going crazy
Let's go crazy, let's go crazy
Ooh, I don't know why, what I'm doing, what I'm doing
See, baby I, apologize
For all the things that I've done that I've done
See I've known that I've been a fool for far too long
And baby you have it, I go around to wait, just come back to papa
Please baby, baby won't you stay
If you really love me then why are you leavin' me?
I can't think, think about this crazy day
I lose sleep just daydreamin' about you baby
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you lately (crazy baby)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you baby (I don't know what to do)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Thinkin' about you lately (crazy, crazy, crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, (crazy, crazy) when I can touch you
Crazy, crazy (I'm going crazy) when I can hold you
Crazy, crazy, (I'm going crazy) when I can see you again
(Said I'm going crazy)
(Said I'm going crazy)
Said I'm going crazy
I've finally realized, that you are my true love
And I had a lot of time to think,
and you're all I seem to keep think
To keep thinkin of, yeah
And now I know I need you, each and every day
I can't live without you, so don't run away
Baby you said that you love me
so why'd you leave me, why (why, why, why, why)
I can't think, think about this crazy day (tell me, baby, why are you leaving)
I lose sleep just to daydream about you baby (I'm going crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you lately (just thinkin')
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy
Just thinkin' about you baby (I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
Thinkin' about you lately (crazy, crazy, crazy)
I'm going crazy, crazy, (crazy, crazy) when I can touch you
Crazy, crazy (I'm going crazy) when I can hold you
Crazy, crazy, (I'm going crazy) when I can see you again
If I can see you, I can see you
If I can see you, if I can see you, if I can see
If I can see you again then I would go
If I can see you again, I'd go crazy
I would go crazy
Oh, oh, I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
Matter of fact, I'm going crazy
I'd go crazy
I'd go crazy
crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
crazy, I'm going crazy
I think I'm going crazy, I think I'm going crazy
I think I'm going crazy
Let's go crazy, let's go crazy
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Crazy Lyrics as written by Joel Lamonte Hailey Darrell Allamby
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