"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.
I'm not selling cheap
You have to pay me
One dollar for every 62 cents
Someone with testicles makes
I'm not selling cheap
Fuck you, you have to pay me
You can burn me like a witch
You can call me a bitch
But you have to pay me one dollar for every 62 cents
That anyone with testicles makes
You have to pay me
One dollar for every 62 cents
Someone with testicles makes
I'm not selling cheap
Fuck you, you have to pay me
You can burn me like a witch
You can call me a bitch
But you have to pay me one dollar for every 62 cents
That anyone with testicles makes
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER35620
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"But you have to pay me one dollar for every 62 cents/That anyone with testicles makes". I think this song is about being a woman and wanting to get paid equally to a man, or something.
A woman got payed, on average, 62 cents for every dollar a man made. She's saying, burn me like a witch, call me a bitch, but you have to pay me a dollar for every 62 cents HE makes. She's reclaiming it.
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