"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.
Everyone's watching, to see what you will do
Everyone's looking at you, oh
Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight
Everyone's trying to get it right, get it right
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
Everyone's looking to see if it was you
Everyone wants you to come through
Everyone's hoping it'll all work out
Everyone's waiting they're holding out
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance
Hey, hey
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
Hey
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
Everyone's looking at you, oh
Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight
Everyone's trying to get it right, get it right
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
Everyone's looking to see if it was you
Everyone wants you to come through
Everyone's hoping it'll all work out
Everyone's waiting they're holding out
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance
Hey, hey
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
Hey
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let's go
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Working for the Weekend Lyrics as written by Matthew Frenette Paul Dean
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I can't believe that there's only one comment for this song, this song is awsome.
ok has any one noticed that kid is hot tonight isnt on the site. its only one of the best loverboy songs. and this song is obviously about partying
Loverboy will always be one of those bands that hipsters, who are the emptiest of all music/film fans, love to hate, especially since the singer has stated on MTV & elsewhere that “Nirvana killed my career”, which, taking into account how Nirvana will probably never have another negative thing about them (did they ever have anything “negative” written about them?), completes the association in people’s minds that Nirvana and Loverboy are polar opposites, which could not be further from the truth. (It’s only rock n roll, man)…
Loverboy were a huge presence on early MTV, they were positioned perfectly to have exposure on the brand new (in 1981) network, but, like Nirvana, if they hadn’t had the material, they’d have been forgotten quickly. Loverboy are actually one of the big success stories, along with Duran Duran, of the first few years of MTV.
Anyway, my point about the song: Working For The weekend is a bona fide Great song, and is in fact a part of “The Pantheon” of great rock n roll songs. It comes in right behind Gimme Some Lovin’ by Spencer Davis, (afa songs about trying to get something going after work, trying to feel good, and get thehh by taste of the workday out of their mouths, goes, (and just ahead of Crawling From The Wreckage by Rockpile/Dave Edmunds/Graham Parker).
All I think about when i hear this song is Chris Farely and Chipindales from SNL.....good lord.
When ever i hear this song i think of the pepsi commercial, its the best.
this.song.is.genius.
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So cool.
I love this song.. love love love love... from vice city.. I just saw click today too and it was in there haha.. but yeah this song is awesome.
This is so catchy; who the fuck cannot like this song? I always think of Zoolander when I hear this song. Anyways, the drug reference is a good theory.
I always feel like dancing when I hear this song :D