"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.
When I see her eyes
Look into my eyes
Then I realize that she can see inside my head
So I close my eyes
Thinking that I could hide
Disassociate so I don't have to lose my head
This situation is to agitation
Will she cut me off?
Will this be an amputation?
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Loves me not
Over the past five years
I have shed my tears
I have drank my beers and watched my fears fly away
And until this day
She still swings my way
But its sad to say
Sometimes she says she loves me not
But I hesitate, to tell her I hate
This relationship, I want out today
This is over
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Life's not fair
I'm the jerk
Line for line, rhyme for rhyme
Sometimes we be fightin' all the goddamn time
Its makin' me sick
Relationship is gettin' ill
Piss drunk stupid, mad on the real
Could you feel what I feel
What's the deal girl?
Tearing up each others world
We should be in harmony, boy and girl
That is the promise we made
Back in the day
We told each other things wouldn't be this way
I think we should work this out
Its alright baby, we can scream and shout
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Loves me not
Life's not fair, life's not fair, life's not fair
I'm the jerk
Life's not fair
She loves me not, loves me not
Look into my eyes
Then I realize that she can see inside my head
So I close my eyes
Thinking that I could hide
Disassociate so I don't have to lose my head
This situation is to agitation
Will she cut me off?
Will this be an amputation?
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Loves me not
Over the past five years
I have shed my tears
I have drank my beers and watched my fears fly away
And until this day
She still swings my way
But its sad to say
Sometimes she says she loves me not
But I hesitate, to tell her I hate
This relationship, I want out today
This is over
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Life's not fair
I'm the jerk
Line for line, rhyme for rhyme
Sometimes we be fightin' all the goddamn time
Its makin' me sick
Relationship is gettin' ill
Piss drunk stupid, mad on the real
Could you feel what I feel
What's the deal girl?
Tearing up each others world
We should be in harmony, boy and girl
That is the promise we made
Back in the day
We told each other things wouldn't be this way
I think we should work this out
Its alright baby, we can scream and shout
I don't know, if I care
I'm the jerk, life's not fair
Fighting all the time, this is out of line
She loves me not, loves me not
Do you realize I won't compromise
She loves me not
Loves me not
Life's not fair, life's not fair, life's not fair
I'm the jerk
Life's not fair
She loves me not, loves me not
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She Loves Me Not Lyrics as written by Jacoby Shaddix David Buckner
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Word Collections Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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