"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 WANNA PLAY YOU WANNA GAME
narabu kuruma o utsurigi na manazashi ga nebumi suru
yuugure toki no BRIDGE mureru riyuu mo nai basho
namameku suashi wa sugu aku GATE
kairaku ni koishiteru chapatsu-tachi
nori no ii sasoi ni kanojo mo mou yatsu no naka
bigaku ni awanai to daisansha de tsukiatta wangan
chekku wa ireteiru jibun wa kakusenai
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai rikutsu ja chanto wakatteru kedo
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou natsu o motsu suhada ni
sekkyou doutoku ai no unchiku muyou da to shirasareru hazamu iki
yabai yo koko ja yappa tameratte KISS o nogasu
doushite kono ko ga, to omou yo na kawaii ko-tachi
riaru to kousa shite kodoku no mudazukai
NAVEL VENUS okureru na hoka no yatsu ni saki kosareru
ki ga tsukya shoshinsha no boku mo GET taisei
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai
NAVEL VENUS yureru koshi
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai rikutsu ja chanto wakatteru kedo
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou natsu o motsu suhada ni
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou
NAVEL VENUS koi ni shitai
NAVEL VENUS yureru koshi
narabu kuruma o utsurigi na manazashi ga nebumi suru
yuugure toki no BRIDGE mureru riyuu mo nai basho
namameku suashi wa sugu aku GATE
kairaku ni koishiteru chapatsu-tachi
nori no ii sasoi ni kanojo mo mou yatsu no naka
bigaku ni awanai to daisansha de tsukiatta wangan
chekku wa ireteiru jibun wa kakusenai
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai rikutsu ja chanto wakatteru kedo
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou natsu o motsu suhada ni
sekkyou doutoku ai no unchiku muyou da to shirasareru hazamu iki
yabai yo koko ja yappa tameratte KISS o nogasu
doushite kono ko ga, to omou yo na kawaii ko-tachi
riaru to kousa shite kodoku no mudazukai
NAVEL VENUS okureru na hoka no yatsu ni saki kosareru
ki ga tsukya shoshinsha no boku mo GET taisei
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai
NAVEL VENUS yureru koshi
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai rikutsu ja chanto wakatteru kedo
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou natsu o motsu suhada ni
NAVEL VENUS koi nan ja nai
NAVEL VENUS kanjisou
NAVEL VENUS koi ni shitai
NAVEL VENUS yureru koshi
Lyrics submitted by Ecci
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