"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.
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Come in from the cold
Close the door from the hurt that makes you feel alone
Time for you to shed that coat you've wrapped around your love
Lay here in my arms, let me hold you close
I'll warm your soul
Come in from the rain
Shake away all the tears you try to hide in vain
Tell me every fear that keeps you from this love of mine
Leave it all behind, lay by my side
I'll shelter you
I've been hurt just like you
I know how hard it is to give your love away
But baby it's safe, I'm warm
All I'm really asking of you is
Come in from the cold
But I've been hurt just like you
I know how hard it is to give your love away
But baby it's safe, I'm warm
All I'm really asking of you is
Come in from the cold
Throw off all of the memories that can weigh you down
Love's the only way to heal a heart that love has wronged
So baby give up the fight
You know it's right
Come in from the cold
But, baby you should know
I love you
You're my dying love, yeah yeah yeah
Girl, I'll make you warm
Shelter you from the storm
I wanna shelter you
Gotta shelter you
Place no one above you
'Cause I need you and I love you
And I want ya, oh baby won't you come on home
Come in from the cold
Close the door from the hurt that makes you feel alone
Time for you to shed that coat you've wrapped around your love
Lay here in my arms, let me hold you close
I'll warm your soul
Come in from the rain
Shake away all the tears you try to hide in vain
Tell me every fear that keeps you from this love of mine
Leave it all behind, lay by my side
I'll shelter you
I've been hurt just like you
I know how hard it is to give your love away
But baby it's safe, I'm warm
All I'm really asking of you is
Come in from the cold
But I've been hurt just like you
I know how hard it is to give your love away
But baby it's safe, I'm warm
All I'm really asking of you is
Come in from the cold
Throw off all of the memories that can weigh you down
Love's the only way to heal a heart that love has wronged
So baby give up the fight
You know it's right
Come in from the cold
But, baby you should know
I love you
You're my dying love, yeah yeah yeah
Girl, I'll make you warm
Shelter you from the storm
I wanna shelter you
Gotta shelter you
Place no one above you
'Cause I need you and I love you
And I want ya, oh baby won't you come on home
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