"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.
Io ho 23 anni Nanana nana oh yes I like that pizza pie song,
oh mamma mia hahaha haha all this pizza pie all over the studio
stop it please eat spaghetti with mozzarella spaghetti bolonnaise
We used to be engaged but then you left me without giving any plausible explanation.
No, it is not true you just don’t understand the female universe, my extreme sensitivity
is the opposite of your Italian stallion materialism.
Nevertheless...
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be alone
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with a guy after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want to feel tied down
Darling I love you...
Ok, let’s eat some pizza pie, come on!
Stay home - I want to be free
Go out with whoever you like -
You never care about what I do
I’d like to squeeze your tits - You pig!
I’d never touch you not even with a flower - You homo
I take drugs, and blaspheme, and I hit children and ignore you - I love you bastard
I work my ass off 14 hours a day to support you and I listen to you -
I’m leaving you for a junkie who does nothing all day, who blasphemes and hits children and ignores everything else me included, my pizza pie
I’ll put on a rubber - I feel maternal
I feel paternal - Put on a rubber
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be alone
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with an Italian stallion after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want no spaghetti
Darling I love you...
Hahahaha DO IT BETTER! DO IT BETTER!
I’m staying home - You oppress me
I’m going out - This house is not a hotel
I’ll rub your belly with a cube of ice dipped in Cointreau,
then I’ll blindfold you and screw you -
I’m not a whore!
Ok then in the missionary position me on top and you below - How boring! hahahaha
I am the Italian stallion - I want to be kissed
I am the French stallion - Let’s go to the southern pacific and have an anal explosion
Ok booom hahaha mani pulite
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be loved
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with a guy after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want to eat spaghetti anymore
Darling I love you Io ho 23 anni
And now let’s unite our bodies in the supreme ecstasy of love’s perfection
Oh no - why? - because when I was thirteen years old my cousin showed me his thing and it has traumatized me ever since, nevertheless we can cuddle in bed all night without doing anything and it’ll be beautiful all the same.
I’ll stick it up your ass - Yes, OK, do it now, don’t wait.
Would you go out with me tomorrow night?
Eh, I’m a little tired and I think I might have another date.
That’s OK I can always hang out with my friends
I am free tonight
Let’s talk about sex - I have a need for affection
Let’s talk about affection - Let’s screw
I am the way I am - I wish you’d try to change
There you go I’ve changed - You’re not the same as you used to be
You’re my possession - The uterus is mine hahahaha cappuccino
Here’s the money for that new fur coat - Here’s my uterus hahahaha pizza pie mozzarella
when the moon hits the sky
And so “That’s Amore”, signorina
io ho 23 anni
oh mamma mia hahaha haha all this pizza pie all over the studio
stop it please eat spaghetti with mozzarella spaghetti bolonnaise
We used to be engaged but then you left me without giving any plausible explanation.
No, it is not true you just don’t understand the female universe, my extreme sensitivity
is the opposite of your Italian stallion materialism.
Nevertheless...
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be alone
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with a guy after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want to feel tied down
Darling I love you...
Ok, let’s eat some pizza pie, come on!
Stay home - I want to be free
Go out with whoever you like -
You never care about what I do
I’d like to squeeze your tits - You pig!
I’d never touch you not even with a flower - You homo
I take drugs, and blaspheme, and I hit children and ignore you - I love you bastard
I work my ass off 14 hours a day to support you and I listen to you -
I’m leaving you for a junkie who does nothing all day, who blasphemes and hits children and ignores everything else me included, my pizza pie
I’ll put on a rubber - I feel maternal
I feel paternal - Put on a rubber
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be alone
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with an Italian stallion after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want no spaghetti
Darling I love you...
Hahahaha DO IT BETTER! DO IT BETTER!
I’m staying home - You oppress me
I’m going out - This house is not a hotel
I’ll rub your belly with a cube of ice dipped in Cointreau,
then I’ll blindfold you and screw you -
I’m not a whore!
Ok then in the missionary position me on top and you below - How boring! hahahaha
I am the Italian stallion - I want to be kissed
I am the French stallion - Let’s go to the southern pacific and have an anal explosion
Ok booom hahaha mani pulite
Darling I love you - I’m feeling quite confused
Darling I love you - I need to be loved
Darling I love you - I’ve just broken up with a guy after three years
Darling I love you - I don’t want to eat spaghetti anymore
Darling I love you Io ho 23 anni
And now let’s unite our bodies in the supreme ecstasy of love’s perfection
Oh no - why? - because when I was thirteen years old my cousin showed me his thing and it has traumatized me ever since, nevertheless we can cuddle in bed all night without doing anything and it’ll be beautiful all the same.
I’ll stick it up your ass - Yes, OK, do it now, don’t wait.
Would you go out with me tomorrow night?
Eh, I’m a little tired and I think I might have another date.
That’s OK I can always hang out with my friends
I am free tonight
Let’s talk about sex - I have a need for affection
Let’s talk about affection - Let’s screw
I am the way I am - I wish you’d try to change
There you go I’ve changed - You’re not the same as you used to be
You’re my possession - The uterus is mine hahahaha cappuccino
Here’s the money for that new fur coat - Here’s my uterus hahahaha pizza pie mozzarella
when the moon hits the sky
And so “That’s Amore”, signorina
io ho 23 anni
Lyrics submitted by Diego8978
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