"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.
Are you listening?
Hear the money talk
Said the screeching hawks
To the hand of God
When the colors change
Hear the TV set
Say, "No one's safe"
Say, "No one's safe"
There's no more time
Now you've stolen it
You can't give it back
Every coroner
Will be playing "Taps"
And the rich will weep
Like they did before
Say, "We want more"
Say, "We want more"
They won't take it laying down
You better get ready fast
Fuck war, I said fuck gas masks
Slay, rape, kill, now it's too late
We don't want to but we have to
Uniform, uniform squad
I want to fight in the war
I want to fight in the war
I want to fight in the war
I want it
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Blood money?
Slay, rape, kill, now it's too late
We don't want to but we have to
Uniform, uniform squad
I want to fight in the war
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Blood money?
Hear the money talk
Said the screeching hawks
To the hand of God
When the colors change
Hear the TV set
Say, "No one's safe"
Say, "No one's safe"
There's no more time
Now you've stolen it
You can't give it back
Every coroner
Will be playing "Taps"
And the rich will weep
Like they did before
Say, "We want more"
Say, "We want more"
They won't take it laying down
You better get ready fast
Fuck war, I said fuck gas masks
Slay, rape, kill, now it's too late
We don't want to but we have to
Uniform, uniform squad
I want to fight in the war
I want to fight in the war
I want to fight in the war
I want it
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Blood money?
Slay, rape, kill, now it's too late
We don't want to but we have to
Uniform, uniform squad
I want to fight in the war
Who's up for making some more
Who's up for making some more
Blood money?
Lyrics submitted by Hunter
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