"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.
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
Tribute to the musical hero
Tribute to the king of Reggae
The man called Bob Marley, king of Reggae music
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
The musical hero
Him a de musical hero
If you see Slim Smith, you can give him my regards
If you see Jacob Miller, you can give him my regards
And if you see Ranking Slackness, the man called General Echo, you can give
him my regards
And if you see Don Cosmic Drummond you can give him my regards
Hard road to travel, and a mighty long way to go
But it's a tribute to the man called Bob Marley
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
The king of Reggae music
The late and great
The late and great
The late and great Bob Marley
The late and great Bob Marley
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
You can give Slim Smith my regards
And you can give Jacob Miller my regards
You know the man Killer Miller, you can give him my regards
And you can give the old brother Don Cosmic Drummond my regards
Give Don Cosmic Drummond my regards
And if you see Ranking Slackness, you can give him my regards
It's a hard road to travel, and a mighty long way to go
But it's a tribute to the musical king
A tribute to the musical king
A trubute to the man called Bob Marley
A trubute to the man called Bob Marley
The musical hero
Him a musical hero
Jah alone hath ??????
And the whole world go free
Free, free, free
They say, It's a hard road to travel, and it's a mighty long way to go
This a tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the man called Bob Marley
A tribute to the musical hero
A tribute to the musical hero
If you see Don Cosmic Drummond you can give him my regards
Even Jackie Opel, you can him my regards
If you see Slim Smith, you can give him my regards
And if you even see Ranking Slackness, the man called General Echo, you can
give him my regards
But these regards give to Bob Marley
Tribute to the musical hero
Tribute to the king of Reggae
The man called Bob Marley, king of Reggae music
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
The musical hero
Him a de musical hero
If you see Slim Smith, you can give him my regards
If you see Jacob Miller, you can give him my regards
And if you see Ranking Slackness, the man called General Echo, you can give
him my regards
And if you see Don Cosmic Drummond you can give him my regards
Hard road to travel, and a mighty long way to go
But it's a tribute to the man called Bob Marley
Tribute to the man called Bob Marley
The king of Reggae music
The late and great
The late and great
The late and great Bob Marley
The late and great Bob Marley
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
You can give Slim Smith my regards
And you can give Jacob Miller my regards
You know the man Killer Miller, you can give him my regards
And you can give the old brother Don Cosmic Drummond my regards
Give Don Cosmic Drummond my regards
And if you see Ranking Slackness, you can give him my regards
It's a hard road to travel, and a mighty long way to go
But it's a tribute to the musical king
A tribute to the musical king
A trubute to the man called Bob Marley
A trubute to the man called Bob Marley
The musical hero
Him a musical hero
Jah alone hath ??????
And the whole world go free
Free, free, free
They say, It's a hard road to travel, and it's a mighty long way to go
This a tribute to the king
A tribute to the king
A tribute to the man called Bob Marley
A tribute to the musical hero
A tribute to the musical hero
If you see Don Cosmic Drummond you can give him my regards
Even Jackie Opel, you can him my regards
If you see Slim Smith, you can give him my regards
And if you even see Ranking Slackness, the man called General Echo, you can
give him my regards
But these regards give to Bob Marley
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