"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.
You say it's driving you insane,
But you'll never be the same,
'Cause you've lost all the power,
That's in your head.
Well I knew him back from school days,
So I caught him right before.
He got himself an ego,
And gave his life to selling draw.
Well, I understood his problems,
But he left me with his answers,
And now he's looking round
For someone else to blame.
You're acting like we're not the same,
Like selling drugs should give you fame,
But it don't, see,
It ain't your prowess that keeps them knocking at your door.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
Oh what a shame, you were gonna be so different,
Now the greed's taking over.
Oh what a shame, 'cause your thinking was so different,
But now the greed’s taking over.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
You is the one.
You say it's driving you insane,
But you'll never be the same,
'Cause you've lost all the power,
That's in your head.
Well I knew him back from school days,
So I caught him right before.
He got himself an ego,
And gave his life to selling draw.
Well, I understood his problems,
But he left me with his answers,
And now he's looking round
For someone else to blame.
You're acting like we're not the same,
Like selling drugs should give you fame,
But it don't, see,
It ain't your prowess that keeps them knocking at your door.
We say oh what a shame, you were gonna be so different,
Now the greed's taking over.
Oh what a shame, 'cause your thinking was so different.
But now the greed's taking over.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
You is the one.
You've got the d, dealer fever,
You gotta break from the fever.
You've got the d, dealer fever,
You gotta break from the fever.
But you'll never be the same,
'Cause you've lost all the power,
That's in your head.
Well I knew him back from school days,
So I caught him right before.
He got himself an ego,
And gave his life to selling draw.
Well, I understood his problems,
But he left me with his answers,
And now he's looking round
For someone else to blame.
You're acting like we're not the same,
Like selling drugs should give you fame,
But it don't, see,
It ain't your prowess that keeps them knocking at your door.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
Oh what a shame, you were gonna be so different,
Now the greed's taking over.
Oh what a shame, 'cause your thinking was so different,
But now the greed’s taking over.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
You is the one.
You say it's driving you insane,
But you'll never be the same,
'Cause you've lost all the power,
That's in your head.
Well I knew him back from school days,
So I caught him right before.
He got himself an ego,
And gave his life to selling draw.
Well, I understood his problems,
But he left me with his answers,
And now he's looking round
For someone else to blame.
You're acting like we're not the same,
Like selling drugs should give you fame,
But it don't, see,
It ain't your prowess that keeps them knocking at your door.
We say oh what a shame, you were gonna be so different,
Now the greed's taking over.
Oh what a shame, 'cause your thinking was so different.
But now the greed's taking over.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
Until the Babylon them gone come after.
You is the man, you think you're godfather,
You is the one.
You've got the d, dealer fever,
You gotta break from the fever.
You've got the d, dealer fever,
You gotta break from the fever.
Lyrics submitted by skacore_dude
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