"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.
Enlight your sense of thought, of touch, of real, a shield
An underground for this coward
Building a blood in water scent
It's like some raping, without judgement
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Serve and protect you
His dick his gun, his brain his badge
A faster way to kill them all would take too goddamn long
Absorb through pores the great escape
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Ourselves (ourselves, ourselves, ourselves)
Arm yourself, a branch, a third arm
Expand your health, crawl inside euphoria
Building a blood in water scent
It's like a raping, it's entrapment
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Perverted handle, his getting by is a fisted fuck
A faster way to kill them all would take too goddamn long
Absorb through pores the great escape
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Ourselves
Half assed for most his life
Piss poor little ham
Narc boy, a fake fuck limp dick
Sucking up to the man, yeah
And the world
We need another cold war
Building a blood in water scent
It's like a raping, without judgement
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Perverted handle, his dick his gun, his brain his badge
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Our fucking selves (ourselves, ourselves, ourselves)
An underground for this coward
Building a blood in water scent
It's like some raping, without judgement
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Serve and protect you
His dick his gun, his brain his badge
A faster way to kill them all would take too goddamn long
Absorb through pores the great escape
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Ourselves (ourselves, ourselves, ourselves)
Arm yourself, a branch, a third arm
Expand your health, crawl inside euphoria
Building a blood in water scent
It's like a raping, it's entrapment
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Perverted handle, his getting by is a fisted fuck
A faster way to kill them all would take too goddamn long
Absorb through pores the great escape
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Ourselves
Half assed for most his life
Piss poor little ham
Narc boy, a fake fuck limp dick
Sucking up to the man, yeah
And the world
We need another cold war
Building a blood in water scent
It's like a raping, without judgement
Boy in a pocket, balls in a bag
Perverted handle, his dick his gun, his brain his badge
Aah
Kill that fuck to show him up
Equal his displeasure now
Stab his ass, a reminded past of what the fuck we live for
Our fucking selves (ourselves, ourselves, ourselves)
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You bunch of yank retards... This son'gs an anti-police song:
"Boy in a pocket. Balls in a bag. Serve and Protect you. His dick his gun, his brain his badge." This is about the cop using his gun as a penis extention - small dick, big gun and his badge is his brain - Phil was saying that the cops in his area thought that just because they had a badge of authority they were far above the law.
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