"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.
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
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What's done is done
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I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
Before we turn to rust
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
Before we turn to rust
I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
Before we turn to rust
What's done is done
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The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
Before we turn to rust
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
The letching corpse of rock 'n' roll
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
What's done is done
I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
Before we turn to rust
I don't know what I want, but I want it now
Before we turn to dust
Before we turn to superstition
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What's done is done
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Just a collection of handy little lines, if you ask me. I think the band got a bit obsessed with the line 'What's done is done'...
I think a lotta rock songs are like this..more than people think...a band comes up with a good jam/melody and just write some nonsense lyrics around it (radio doesnt play instrumentals much, ya know)
Yeah, I meant that a lot of the artwork of the stuff around this time included the phrase 'What's Done Is Done', I think they even had it written on their speakers.