"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.
palace stands
on the shrill
man overboard,
the kissinger orifice
cancer raids
on the front
shape-shifting into antediluvian
poultry sloughing off the tendon
marrow invaded by dentrific
I tell myself to pray now
fission can't live on the follicle
and glucose
doesn't want to drive
bushings conflagrate the sore
capitalists run from the dorm
riot squad comes to the rescue!
precious is the pushcart
on the dreg;
massive laughter from the Yeti
queried a few to find the trader
and whether
he ever found his array
I don't want to give it away
but I heresy
scurvy of the finger-three
and you don't want that noise
at all,
not as bad as the gangerine
sucking out the sugar venom
spitting into the Louvre
pressured the heart of darkness
just like a brain in the nude
licking the wings of a fly
ripping the virgin film
forgive me for the last 12 lies
I've got 13 to kill
host meets the cell
under this skin
host meets the cell
speak to the din
host meets the cell
notify my kin
host meets the cell
came walking in
palace stands
on the shrill
man overboard,
the kissinger orifice
cancer raids
on the front
shape-shifting into antediluvian
poultry sloughing off the tendon
marrow invaded by dentrific
I tell myself to pray now
fission can't live on the follicle
meters turn into inches
and celcius to farenheidt
found myself speaking hindu
Gita collects at the door
I only tried to fix the problem
I was only trying to make things right
ignore my weakness
leave me to my retribution
on the shrill
man overboard,
the kissinger orifice
cancer raids
on the front
shape-shifting into antediluvian
poultry sloughing off the tendon
marrow invaded by dentrific
I tell myself to pray now
fission can't live on the follicle
and glucose
doesn't want to drive
bushings conflagrate the sore
capitalists run from the dorm
riot squad comes to the rescue!
precious is the pushcart
on the dreg;
massive laughter from the Yeti
queried a few to find the trader
and whether
he ever found his array
I don't want to give it away
but I heresy
scurvy of the finger-three
and you don't want that noise
at all,
not as bad as the gangerine
sucking out the sugar venom
spitting into the Louvre
pressured the heart of darkness
just like a brain in the nude
licking the wings of a fly
ripping the virgin film
forgive me for the last 12 lies
I've got 13 to kill
host meets the cell
under this skin
host meets the cell
speak to the din
host meets the cell
notify my kin
host meets the cell
came walking in
palace stands
on the shrill
man overboard,
the kissinger orifice
cancer raids
on the front
shape-shifting into antediluvian
poultry sloughing off the tendon
marrow invaded by dentrific
I tell myself to pray now
fission can't live on the follicle
meters turn into inches
and celcius to farenheidt
found myself speaking hindu
Gita collects at the door
I only tried to fix the problem
I was only trying to make things right
ignore my weakness
leave me to my retribution
Lyrics submitted by Jenovasson
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