"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.
Funny how it all just fades away,
To soul decay (soul decay)
From the things the world can say or can i say?
Everybody needs a little moment of truth (moment of truth)
When they find the new, (find a new)
A new way to live with themselves
Nobody ever had a clue (had a clue)
Or know what to do (or know what to do)
When they had a little feeling called love
And nothing ever had to wait (had to wait)
If they came to hate (came to hate)
Cause you can hate anything before you even try to love it...
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
Yeah i'm sorry that you never understood (never understood)
And it'll do you some good (do you some good)
If you look around and find out for yourself
You need a little push to shove (push to shove)
Test your love (test your love)
Will that person burn for you?
Love is a beauitful way (beautiful way)
to face the day (face the day)
But everybody's got it wrong everybody's got it wrong...
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
And I don't want to be the one who has look back (look back)
Knowing my whole life was a lie
And I don't want to be the one who has regret (regret)
everything you keep inside
And I don't want to spend another minute caring for the things you told me
And anything I ever gave you I'll take it back
I'll never be, never be, your sacrifice
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical and everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
Chemical [3x]
To soul decay (soul decay)
From the things the world can say or can i say?
Everybody needs a little moment of truth (moment of truth)
When they find the new, (find a new)
A new way to live with themselves
Nobody ever had a clue (had a clue)
Or know what to do (or know what to do)
When they had a little feeling called love
And nothing ever had to wait (had to wait)
If they came to hate (came to hate)
Cause you can hate anything before you even try to love it...
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
Yeah i'm sorry that you never understood (never understood)
And it'll do you some good (do you some good)
If you look around and find out for yourself
You need a little push to shove (push to shove)
Test your love (test your love)
Will that person burn for you?
Love is a beauitful way (beautiful way)
to face the day (face the day)
But everybody's got it wrong everybody's got it wrong...
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
And I don't want to be the one who has look back (look back)
Knowing my whole life was a lie
And I don't want to be the one who has regret (regret)
everything you keep inside
And I don't want to spend another minute caring for the things you told me
And anything I ever gave you I'll take it back
I'll never be, never be, your sacrifice
Love is a chemical staright from your genitals
Never is spiritual, never unconditional
Love is a chemical, nature is radical,
Never is spiritual, it's never medical...
And everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical and everything you've ever known today
It's all the world can give you
Don't believe in love or hate
It's only a chemical
Chemical [3x]
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Damn good song, it's why i bought the cd. It's pretty self-explanitory, but i do have to pick at the lyrics. "I dont wanna spend another minute caring for the things that dont mean anything, I never gave a damn about.."
i have a compilation cd with this song on it... but the band name is "trouble is". weird.
sprinkles, they were first named Trouble Is but had to rename when they signed to Columbia cause there was already a band named that, so they switched to Start Trouble
Buuut, basically love this band. Buddy of mine is friends with Luke, used to jam with the guy :P He says he's talented with anything that comes to music and he's proven it