"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.
You're on the outside
You're lookin' in
You're takin' pictures
Of what you've never been
So kill to kill
So you want to die?
You're burnin' slowly
With seven lies
Blow up the bitch
With the firecracker smile
Switchblade in her suitcase
Loves to drive them wild
So kill to kill
Yeah you're gonna die
Everybody's searchin'
Every single night
You'll never keep it
'Cause you sold yourself
And by the way-i-ay-i-ay
You'll never lose it
'Cause you never had it
It's all the sa-i-ay-i-ame
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
She's from the Westside
She's lookin' thin
She fills her body
With what she'll never be
So kill to kill
So you want to die?
Everybody's searchin'
Every single night
You'll never keep it
'Cause you sold yourself
And by the way-i-ay-i-ay
You'll never lose it
'Cause you never had it
It's all the sa-i-ay-i-ame
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
You're lookin' in
You're takin' pictures
Of what you've never been
So kill to kill
So you want to die?
You're burnin' slowly
With seven lies
Blow up the bitch
With the firecracker smile
Switchblade in her suitcase
Loves to drive them wild
So kill to kill
Yeah you're gonna die
Everybody's searchin'
Every single night
You'll never keep it
'Cause you sold yourself
And by the way-i-ay-i-ay
You'll never lose it
'Cause you never had it
It's all the sa-i-ay-i-ame
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
She's from the Westside
She's lookin' thin
She fills her body
With what she'll never be
So kill to kill
So you want to die?
Everybody's searchin'
Every single night
You'll never keep it
'Cause you sold yourself
And by the way-i-ay-i-ay
You'll never lose it
'Cause you never had it
It's all the sa-i-ay-i-ame
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Rock star life
Turn off the switch
Hollywood bitch
So fake that she seems real
(She goes again)
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Hollywood Bitch Lyrics as written by Robert Emile Deleo Dean Deleo
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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