"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.
She's miserable
Why make everybody miserable too?
Oh, can't she see?
What she's putting innocent people through?
Miss Popular
Everything she does is wrong
Everywhere she goes
They'll be looking
And everywhere she turns
They'll be whispering
Oh, Miss Popular
What is happening?
She could have used her title for a good case
But instead she spits in everybody's face
Miss Popular
Everytime she does it wrong
Everywhere she goes
They'll be looking
And everywhere she turns
They'll be whispering
Oh, Miss Popular
It is happening!!
Oh, So now you know how it feels to be insignificant
Oh, So now you know ow it feels to be all alone
Oh, When the lights go off, you can still dream of yourself
How hot you were-Miss Popular
Everybody hates you
Poor Miss Popular
I don't feel a bit sorry for you
Oh, So now you know how it feels to be insignificant
Oh, So now you know ow it feels to be all alone
Oh, When the lights go off, you can still dream of yourself
How hot you were-Miss Popular
Now she knows
There she goes
Now she knows
There she goes
Now you know
There she goes
Why make everybody miserable too?
Oh, can't she see?
What she's putting innocent people through?
Miss Popular
Everything she does is wrong
Everywhere she goes
They'll be looking
And everywhere she turns
They'll be whispering
Oh, Miss Popular
What is happening?
She could have used her title for a good case
But instead she spits in everybody's face
Miss Popular
Everytime she does it wrong
Everywhere she goes
They'll be looking
And everywhere she turns
They'll be whispering
Oh, Miss Popular
It is happening!!
Oh, So now you know how it feels to be insignificant
Oh, So now you know ow it feels to be all alone
Oh, When the lights go off, you can still dream of yourself
How hot you were-Miss Popular
Everybody hates you
Poor Miss Popular
I don't feel a bit sorry for you
Oh, So now you know how it feels to be insignificant
Oh, So now you know ow it feels to be all alone
Oh, When the lights go off, you can still dream of yourself
How hot you were-Miss Popular
Now she knows
There she goes
Now she knows
There she goes
Now you know
There she goes
Lyrics submitted by Broken Hope
Miss Popular Lyrics as written by Marit Elisabeth Larsen Marion Elise Ravn
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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