"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're the lowest form of life you don't deserve to
Take another breath in
This world
Your perverted mind will bring you down to this
She's barely 10 years old
You're fucking sick!
Kill yourself suicide
It's about time you fuckin' die
Kill yourself suicide
Kill yourself suicide
You've got a sick mind with no problem kidnap a
Little girl tie her up and
All that
Built a secret room to hide her from the world
Normal guy with a normal job
And I'm the only one disturbed?
Never thought you you'd be caught everything
Leads back to you underneath
The tv was a room they found it too kill yourself
Kill yourself I got the feeling that it's time
You die!
Crucify yourself with a rusty nail or get fucked
Up in a prison cell
Raping children of their innocence hope you get
What you deserve fuckin quick!
Take another breath in
This world
Your perverted mind will bring you down to this
She's barely 10 years old
You're fucking sick!
Kill yourself suicide
It's about time you fuckin' die
Kill yourself suicide
Kill yourself suicide
You've got a sick mind with no problem kidnap a
Little girl tie her up and
All that
Built a secret room to hide her from the world
Normal guy with a normal job
And I'm the only one disturbed?
Never thought you you'd be caught everything
Leads back to you underneath
The tv was a room they found it too kill yourself
Kill yourself I got the feeling that it's time
You die!
Crucify yourself with a rusty nail or get fucked
Up in a prison cell
Raping children of their innocence hope you get
What you deserve fuckin quick!
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