"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.
Thinkin' about her
Gives me inspiration
But for what I'm not sure
Maybe it's not love
And just infatuation
Well I know I need something more
Than to be just friends
'Cause being friends in not enough
Girl can't you see,
This distance between us is killing me
That's why I gotta know
Why can't we be more that just friends?
I lie awake at night
Frustrated and uptight
Wondering if she's with someone else
Constantly depressed
I'm hopelessly obsessed
I can't understand why she
Won't be more than just friends
'Cause being friends does not suffice
I need advice on what I'm doing wrong
I feel so down
That's why I gotta know
Why can't we be more than just friends?
And I know that you don't love me anymore
That's what you told me on the phone.
So I'll go and buy a 6-pack at the store
A drunken fool all alone.
Gives me inspiration
But for what I'm not sure
Maybe it's not love
And just infatuation
Well I know I need something more
Than to be just friends
'Cause being friends in not enough
Girl can't you see,
This distance between us is killing me
That's why I gotta know
Why can't we be more that just friends?
I lie awake at night
Frustrated and uptight
Wondering if she's with someone else
Constantly depressed
I'm hopelessly obsessed
I can't understand why she
Won't be more than just friends
'Cause being friends does not suffice
I need advice on what I'm doing wrong
I feel so down
That's why I gotta know
Why can't we be more than just friends?
And I know that you don't love me anymore
That's what you told me on the phone.
So I'll go and buy a 6-pack at the store
A drunken fool all alone.
Lyrics submitted by Dancing Potato
More Than Friends Lyrics as written by Gabrielle Aplin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i put this song in my info givin this kid a clue and it worked .. we talked about feelings for like a hour ! blah !@#$ and then he said he wanted to give me a chance .. and its workin out well .. 7 months !! haha
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