"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.
Jump (x28)
Hey
Ha
Heh
Smile! I'ma blow a hole in your neck
And leave you standing there looking stupid like Beck
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
Fuck rednecks, dumb diddy dumb
Barrels in your mouth, shreds your toungue
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
Fuck Gene Simmons, you make me sick
'Psycho Circus' you stole my shit!
Spit your blood out and do your dance
But I'ma kick that ass through your leather pants
Fuck 'Palooza, big festivals
We'll never sell out with you bitch-ass hoes
Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
[Chorus]
Everybody razed on the East Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the West Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the North Side [RIZE!]
South Side [RIZE!]
Everybody [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the East Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the West Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the North Side [RIZE!]
South Side [RIZE!]
Everybody [RIZE!]
Fuck money, I was raised up without shit
That's how I'll die, that's how I like it
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
I SCREAAAAAMM! I make towers shatter
I hooped the moon through the rings of Saturn
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
I say what I want, whatever I feel
Fuck your big contract record deal
Paper ain't shit youse amongst the dead
Dark Carnival, Alakoompahed
Fuck videos, and radio play
Fuck shit, suck my dick all day
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
(Chorus)
Suck my dick (x7)
Micheal Eisler can suck my dick
If he's got some kind of problem with my shit
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
"I'm just a FAGOT!" [Korn] "FAGOT!" Yeah,
They call you that 'cause you act like a bitch
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here, FUCK OUTTA HERE!
Fuck skin color, everybody's blue
Then what would all these bigots do?
Instead of your tone, they'd hate your size
That's why I must poke out all of their eyes
ICP [yeah], we roam alone
Ever since inner city ghetto zone
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
FUCK OUTTA HERE IF YOU AIN'T DOWN WITH THE CLOWN!
[Chorus]
Hey
Ha
Heh
Smile! I'ma blow a hole in your neck
And leave you standing there looking stupid like Beck
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
Fuck rednecks, dumb diddy dumb
Barrels in your mouth, shreds your toungue
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
Fuck Gene Simmons, you make me sick
'Psycho Circus' you stole my shit!
Spit your blood out and do your dance
But I'ma kick that ass through your leather pants
Fuck 'Palooza, big festivals
We'll never sell out with you bitch-ass hoes
Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
[Chorus]
Everybody razed on the East Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the West Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the North Side [RIZE!]
South Side [RIZE!]
Everybody [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the East Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the West Side [RIZE!]
Everybody razed on the North Side [RIZE!]
South Side [RIZE!]
Everybody [RIZE!]
Fuck money, I was raised up without shit
That's how I'll die, that's how I like it
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
I SCREAAAAAMM! I make towers shatter
I hooped the moon through the rings of Saturn
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
I say what I want, whatever I feel
Fuck your big contract record deal
Paper ain't shit youse amongst the dead
Dark Carnival, Alakoompahed
Fuck videos, and radio play
Fuck shit, suck my dick all day
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
(Chorus)
Suck my dick (x7)
Micheal Eisler can suck my dick
If he's got some kind of problem with my shit
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown
"I'm just a FAGOT!" [Korn] "FAGOT!" Yeah,
They call you that 'cause you act like a bitch
Everybody jumps to the juggalo sound
Fuck outta here, FUCK OUTTA HERE!
Fuck skin color, everybody's blue
Then what would all these bigots do?
Instead of your tone, they'd hate your size
That's why I must poke out all of their eyes
ICP [yeah], we roam alone
Ever since inner city ghetto zone
Everybody Jumps to the juggalo sound
FUCK OUTTA HERE IF YOU AIN'T DOWN WITH THE CLOWN!
[Chorus]
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