"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.
Home for the holidays,
I believe I've missed each and every face,
Come on and play my music,
Let's turn on the love light in the place
It's time I found myself,
Totally surrounded in your circles
Whoa, my friends
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
And I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.
Uneasy highway,
Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly,
Somebody tried to tell me,
But the men forgot to tell me why,
I gotta count on being gone,
Come on woman, come on daddy,
Be what you want from me,
I'm this strong, I'll be weak
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can make believe I've never gone,
I never know where I belong,
Sing me home.
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
I believe I've missed each and every face,
Come on and play my music,
Let's turn on the love light in the place
It's time I found myself,
Totally surrounded in your circles
Whoa, my friends
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
And I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.
Uneasy highway,
Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly,
Somebody tried to tell me,
But the men forgot to tell me why,
I gotta count on being gone,
Come on woman, come on daddy,
Be what you want from me,
I'm this strong, I'll be weak
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember,
I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can make believe I've never gone,
I never know where I belong,
Sing me home.
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Lyrics submitted by katrina_the_fly
Celebrate Me Home Lyrics as written by Kenneth Clark Loggins Bob James
Lyrics © Gnossos Music / Milk Money Music
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A good song for our travelers, college students, and our troops who are lucky to celebrate the holidays with their families.
I think this song is just an anthem for everyone who is away from their loved ones and is going home soon, whether they have a long distance job, they're in college, or they are part of the troops.
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. It reminds of all the holidays we spent growing up at my maternal grandparents' place in Grayling, MI. It was just a silly two-bedroom house, but we'd oftentimes cram up to 20 people in that place for holidays, especially Christmas. Everybody was of the thinking, "Give me a blanket and pillow, and where am I sleeping?" NOBODY CARED! We were all together. For dinner, we'd set up tables in the living room, the kitchen, a little dining area, wherever. We were all within earshot, anyway. This song brings all those happy times flooding back, and oftentimes reduces me to tears. If my fiancée and I ever have enough money, I'm going to buy that place, just out of general principle...
@EPBPGrad my great grandparents had a place in Grayling too. My mom spent her summers there!
I'm surprised no one commented.
But anyways, great song!
The message of this song for me is that no matter how successful we are in our goals, we should learn to come home and celebrate our greatness with our love ones. And we should learn to acknowledge the success we just had.
Yes, but what do you think "Give me a number" means?
That's what I was wondering, too. Maybe... maybe it refers to the context of the next line "Play me one more song." Among some professional musician types a "song" is often called a "number." Kind of a stretch, I'm thinkin'.
@jcarr I think you nailed it ! A number refers to a song. He wants a song that he can come back and remember this time.<br /> <br /> Sam
Re: the meaning of "Gimme a number"
So this is a couple years too late, but I think it is number 3 as you suggest, but not another song to write or inspiration. But, rather, it is another one to revel in, to dance to, to be surrounded by friends with. He's asking that his family and friends' celebration call him home with music and love--give me a number, just one more song that I'll always remember, something that I can recall when I'm all alone, celebrate me home. So, in other words, just play me a song that will call me home.
@inkling Methinks you're thinking a bit too deeply about it. Maybe, just maybe, the term "gimme a number" was the only thing he felt sounded good when placed into that particular part of the song. Alternatively, maybe it just wasn't deeply thought out, and he was writing more from an emotional standpoint than anything else. Regardless, just cause you don't like the sound of the lyric, doesn't mean he's an egotistical jerk who can't enjoy time with his family without somehow being performed to.