"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.
Oh, put our heads together
Because a signature could change our future
Uh-huh
For some wrote you a letter begging you to reconsider
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Put our heads together
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
So they put number
On the television, Mr. Gardner
Oh, yeah
A messed up generation
Put the pressure on you
You're a coward
Uh-huh
Yeah, yea-hey
A messed-up generation
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
We can see right through you, we're awake
Send your men and we are all awake
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Wake, awake, awake, awake
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voice
Because a signature could change our future
Uh-huh
For some wrote you a letter begging you to reconsider
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Put our heads together
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
So they put number
On the television, Mr. Gardner
Oh, yeah
A messed up generation
Put the pressure on you
You're a coward
Uh-huh
Yeah, yea-hey
A messed-up generation
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
We can see right through you, we're awake
Send your men and we are all awake
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Wake, awake, awake, awake
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voice
Lyrics submitted by Degradation Trip, edited by raingray
Fear the Voices Lyrics as written by Jerry Cantrell Layne Staley
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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I'm pretty sure they're saying "If you steal our choices we'll blow you away" not "if you still have choices"