"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.
Jah Jah is real!
Jah Jah is real!
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Every day you get up and you wish to have a meal
Now you get a cut and you wish to have it heal
And still you can not accept that Jah Jah is real
Tell me Mr. Man say whats the deal
You say you have everything sign and seel
Thought you won the case but nox you a appeal
You are the one who couldn't hear now you the one to feel
Evidently clear we choppin' down your shield
Dem ain't going nowhere no time soon
Dem corrupt the east and now dem turn it to the moon
Plant ina your garden and wish that it will bloom
But still you're singing Satan tunes
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Mother earth was meant for man and woman to stay
Me find out nuff a dem drifting away
Children can't even find a place fi play
Birds can't find no seeds, horses no hay
I see the weavers weaving but dem income delay
Still me see dem searching for a brighter day
And now me come fi give it to you right away
Do you hear what I say
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
So gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Whapen' them?
Give me the mic deh for a moment make me talk to dem
And watch the eden dem a scatter when we walk to dem
And if you know you are not guilty stand up and don't you run
No, no to all my foes and friends
You may live to see today but you nuh know the end
Just read the writings on the wall its a message we send
And Babylon will never live to stop the rising of Jah son
Well, dem, dem
Jah Jah is real!
Jah Jah is real!
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Every day you get up and you wish to have a meal
Now you get a cut and you wish to have it heal
And still you can not accept that Jah Jah is real
Tell me Mr. Man say whats the deal
You say you have everything sign and seel
Thought you won the case but nox you a appeal
You are the one who couldn't hear now you the one to feel
Evidently clear we choppin' down your shield
Dem ain't going nowhere no time soon
Dem corrupt the east and now dem turn it to the moon
Jah Jah is real!
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Every day you get up and you wish to have a meal
Now you get a cut and you wish to have it heal
And still you can not accept that Jah Jah is real
Tell me Mr. Man say whats the deal
You say you have everything sign and seel
Thought you won the case but nox you a appeal
You are the one who couldn't hear now you the one to feel
Evidently clear we choppin' down your shield
Dem ain't going nowhere no time soon
Dem corrupt the east and now dem turn it to the moon
Plant ina your garden and wish that it will bloom
But still you're singing Satan tunes
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Mother earth was meant for man and woman to stay
Me find out nuff a dem drifting away
Children can't even find a place fi play
Birds can't find no seeds, horses no hay
I see the weavers weaving but dem income delay
Still me see dem searching for a brighter day
And now me come fi give it to you right away
Do you hear what I say
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
So gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Whapen' them?
Give me the mic deh for a moment make me talk to dem
And watch the eden dem a scatter when we walk to dem
And if you know you are not guilty stand up and don't you run
No, no to all my foes and friends
You may live to see today but you nuh know the end
Just read the writings on the wall its a message we send
And Babylon will never live to stop the rising of Jah son
Well, dem, dem
Jah Jah is real!
Jah Jah is real!
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Dem gone
So far away
Dem gone
The whole a dem ago regret it one day
Every day you get up and you wish to have a meal
Now you get a cut and you wish to have it heal
And still you can not accept that Jah Jah is real
Tell me Mr. Man say whats the deal
You say you have everything sign and seel
Thought you won the case but nox you a appeal
You are the one who couldn't hear now you the one to feel
Evidently clear we choppin' down your shield
Dem ain't going nowhere no time soon
Dem corrupt the east and now dem turn it to the moon
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