"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.
Let's go
It's never too late to be early
Or try and maintain
Some scrap of integrity and certainty
I guess
My fingers
Won't apologize (are blistered)
And 1977 was a long time ago (and bleeding, there's no longer discomfort)
I don't care (you brought us)
I don't care how things, were and I won't
Apologize, I won't apologize
Fuck you
Our dreams and hopes, penetrated
And there is little hope
For the white man so
Hop on your rainbow
Ride it
My fingers
Into oblivion, go (are blistered and bleeding)
And ride into oblivion
For all I care (there's no longer)
You could be early (discomfort)
Or late, whatever (you brought us)
It's never too late to be early
Or try and maintain
Some scrap of integrity and certainty
I guess
My fingers
Won't apologize (are blistered)
And 1977 was a long time ago (and bleeding, there's no longer discomfort)
I don't care (you brought us)
I don't care how things, were and I won't
Apologize, I won't apologize
Fuck you
Our dreams and hopes, penetrated
And there is little hope
For the white man so
Hop on your rainbow
Ride it
My fingers
Into oblivion, go (are blistered and bleeding)
And ride into oblivion
For all I care (there's no longer)
You could be early (discomfort)
Or late, whatever (you brought us)
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Pulmonary Archery Lyrics as written by Wade Macneil Dallas Green
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The alamo being penatrated... reference to history class again, but also... the alamo was a church where mexicans besieged american rebels who were trying to make texas independant of mexico.... so the white man would be him, an 'american rebel' because he WILL NOT apologise and is trying to separate himself from this lie... so now she's (the love interest, symbolised by the mexican force) is going to infiltrate and take what he is defending. hence, there 'is little hope for the white man'
I dunno.. just a few thoughts.
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