"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.
So many kinds, where can we start?
We like them dumb and we like them smart
I like the ones with the pretty eyes
Well I like all kinds of guys
Stop
What happened?
How about the ones we especially like?
Which ones?
You know the ones with the cars that go
I hear you
Hit it
It was me and the posse with Bunny D
We were cruising in the Jag or the Lamborghini
When low and behold there appeared a mirage
He was hooking up a car in his daddy's garage
We stopped short, did a double take
He was looking so fly, I thought I wasn't awake
He was obviously hooking up bass, I assume
But then he turned a little button and the car went boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like them short, and we like them tall
We like them one, and we like them all
They're always adding speakers when they find the room
'Cause they know we love the guys with the cars that go boom
And see my boyfriend really knows where it's at
He's got fifty inch woofers all along the back
He makes a comment on going to my room
But I'd rather stay out with his car that goes boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
Now if your car ain't got it, go out and get it
We like the boom and don't you forget it
So turn down the treble, and flaunt your bass
So your car can be heard almost any place
'Cause when you're in the street you can't go far
Without hearing the boom pouring out your car
So if your speaker's weak, then please turn it off
'Cause we like the cars that sound so tough
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
Everybody just beep your horn if you hear us
(Beep your horn if you hear us)
Beep your horn if you hear us
(Just) Just beep your horn if
Now clap, hit it
Beep, beep beep beep beep (come on everybody beep)
Hey, hey hey
Beep, beep (come on everybody beep)
Oh, oh oh beep
Beep
I said beep
Beep a little louder if you hear us
I said beep a little harder if you hear us, ah
We like them dumb and we like them smart
I like the ones with the pretty eyes
Well I like all kinds of guys
Stop
What happened?
How about the ones we especially like?
Which ones?
You know the ones with the cars that go
I hear you
Hit it
It was me and the posse with Bunny D
We were cruising in the Jag or the Lamborghini
When low and behold there appeared a mirage
He was hooking up a car in his daddy's garage
We stopped short, did a double take
He was looking so fly, I thought I wasn't awake
He was obviously hooking up bass, I assume
But then he turned a little button and the car went boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like them short, and we like them tall
We like them one, and we like them all
They're always adding speakers when they find the room
'Cause they know we love the guys with the cars that go boom
And see my boyfriend really knows where it's at
He's got fifty inch woofers all along the back
He makes a comment on going to my room
But I'd rather stay out with his car that goes boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
Now if your car ain't got it, go out and get it
We like the boom and don't you forget it
So turn down the treble, and flaunt your bass
So your car can be heard almost any place
'Cause when you're in the street you can't go far
Without hearing the boom pouring out your car
So if your speaker's weak, then please turn it off
'Cause we like the cars that sound so tough
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
We like the cars, the cars that go boom
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom
Everybody just beep your horn if you hear us
(Beep your horn if you hear us)
Beep your horn if you hear us
(Just) Just beep your horn if
Now clap, hit it
Beep, beep beep beep beep (come on everybody beep)
Hey, hey hey
Beep, beep (come on everybody beep)
Oh, oh oh beep
Beep
I said beep
Beep a little louder if you hear us
I said beep a little harder if you hear us, ah
Lyrics submitted by Atreyurdabest
Cars That Go Boom Lyrics as written by Lawrence Davis Elana Cager
Lyrics © HENSTONE MUSIC, Sentric Music
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