"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.
Third time this year gone, buy me a key to this
City lights makes me feel sick and broke I'm not goin
Homeless, outside in springtime, it's getting dark
Cold beer and blue martinis-"in the sand's the lounge is lovely"
I'll be golden, someday sugar
If I can only get head
I'd go to bed
Sleep don't come easy when you're stuck-
In such a sickly paradice
I think that I could use it
Sleep don't come easy when you're rolling bone's
With funny eyes
I think that I could lose it
White suit of diamonds, holding a royal pain
I believe in nenemies lie nenemies
Believe in me
Closer I'm sinking, memories pulling me like-
Soda pop and sour cream hop scotch
To the liquor
Standin', under sea of neon
If I can only get ahead
I'd go to bed
Sleep don't come easy when you're stuck-
In such a sickly paradice
I think that I could use it
Sleep don't come easy when you're rolling bone's
With funny eyes
I think that I could lose it
City lights makes me feel sick and broke I'm not goin
Homeless, outside in springtime, it's getting dark
Cold beer and blue martinis-"in the sand's the lounge is lovely"
I'll be golden, someday sugar
If I can only get head
I'd go to bed
Sleep don't come easy when you're stuck-
In such a sickly paradice
I think that I could use it
Sleep don't come easy when you're rolling bone's
With funny eyes
I think that I could lose it
White suit of diamonds, holding a royal pain
I believe in nenemies lie nenemies
Believe in me
Closer I'm sinking, memories pulling me like-
Soda pop and sour cream hop scotch
To the liquor
Standin', under sea of neon
If I can only get ahead
I'd go to bed
Sleep don't come easy when you're stuck-
In such a sickly paradice
I think that I could use it
Sleep don't come easy when you're rolling bone's
With funny eyes
I think that I could lose it
Lyrics submitted by ilikeveganbutter
Los Vargos Lyrics as written by Mariann Victoria Braeden Daniel A. Kempthorne
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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