"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.
Give me your blood
Your teeth
Your high school pictures
Your words can't begin to
Satisfy my needs
Give me your hand
I'll never
Give you flowers
Your touch can't begin to
Satisfy my
I can't save you
From me this time
You can't save you
Nothing comes between you and I
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
Three parts me
Show me your scars
Show me your broken mirrors
Your dreams can't begin to
Satisfy my
I can't save you
From me this time
You can't hide from me
Can't hide what's inside
In your mind
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
Three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
Always has been
And always will be
Three parts me
Three parts me
Your teeth
Your high school pictures
Your words can't begin to
Satisfy my needs
Give me your hand
I'll never
Give you flowers
Your touch can't begin to
Satisfy my
I can't save you
From me this time
You can't save you
Nothing comes between you and I
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
Three parts me
Show me your scars
Show me your broken mirrors
Your dreams can't begin to
Satisfy my
I can't save you
From me this time
You can't hide from me
Can't hide what's inside
In your mind
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
Three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
I know you know
It's one part you
And three parts me
Don't know what you see
In my negativity
Always has been
And always will be
Three parts me
Three parts me
Lyrics submitted by MDMaster
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There's obviously a lot of relationship stuff here, and I think, if there's anything to this it probably fits into this context, but here goes:
The title of the song puzzled me. In the lyrics, the references to "three parts me" reflect an inequality in the relationship, okay. But to make that the title of the song seems to give too much emphasis to a strange metaphor. Furthermore, the song is not titled "3 out of 4", or "3/4", but "Negative 3" which is not the same thing, mathematically, and I don't think it's like Manson to be so sloppy.
I don't claim to understand it exactly, but it occurred to me that numerology and particularly the number 3 come up a lot in Manson's other work, particularly Antichrist Superstar.
From what I've read of numerology, 3 related to perfection or transcendence, to god (or at any rate, divinity), so Negative 3 might be a sort of Negative God, or Antichrist. Manson also has a song called "The Reflecting God"; a reflection seems to me to be analogous to a negative, numerically, and this becomes even more tangible when we apply the concept to a photo negative. (This may be random, but the lyrics do mention "your high school picture", so photos may have been in his thoughts when he wrote this.) And of course, "The Reflecting God" is off "Antichrist Superstar".
Finally, from my limited research into numerology, the number four represents humanity, earth, imperfection.
In this song's lyrics, "it's one part you, three parts me," which suggests divinity (me) being tempered or corrupted into humanity, the transition of three (a divine state) to four (a flawed, human state. This would fit the "destructive relationship" theme. The overall vibe given by the song is that he is abusing her, but it sort of seems like he feels she's a corrupting influence, as well. This would fit with his relationship with Nancy (which he discusses in his autobiography), although I don't know if this is about her specifically.