"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.
Hold on to that lead they sometimes pull so tight
And there's bad boy Oscar he been up all night
And if oxygen ran out
You know he just won't care
It'll be like throw that stick one more time of there
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at all
Dear round Alice she been sick outta sight
She's just ate three whole boxes of Turkish Delight
Oh waggy waggy tail and chasing sticks and stones
Those victory laps and sgt pepper tones
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at all
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at, you just don't care at all
Oh, like you just don't care
Like you just don't care at all
Oh like you just don't care and you just don't care at all
And there's bad boy Oscar he been up all night
And if oxygen ran out
You know he just won't care
It'll be like throw that stick one more time of there
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at all
Dear round Alice she been sick outta sight
She's just ate three whole boxes of Turkish Delight
Oh waggy waggy tail and chasing sticks and stones
Those victory laps and sgt pepper tones
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at all
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
Ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah ooh aah
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby
Poodle rockin' my mind was a mess
Before you brought happiness
And we went, woah poodle rockin' baby poodle rockin'
You're chasing sticks and stones
Like you just don't care at, you just don't care at all
Oh, like you just don't care
Like you just don't care at all
Oh like you just don't care and you just don't care at all
Lyrics submitted by zygoticmynci
Poodle Rockin' Lyrics as written by Euros Childs
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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