"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.
I have always thought in the back of my mind, "Cheese and Onions".
I have always thought that the world was unkind, "Cheese and Onions".
Do I have to spell it out ? "see-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S", oh no.
X Man or machine (Man or machine) Keep yourself clean (Keep yourself clean)
Or be a has-been (Ah-ah) Like Dinosaur, oh oh-oh.
why Man of advise (Man of advise) For everything nice (Everything nice)
You'd better think twice (Ah-ah) At least once more, oh oh.
repeat ad lib X - why
I have always thought that the world was unkind, "Cheese and Onions".
Do I have to spell it out ? "see-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S", oh no.
X Man or machine (Man or machine) Keep yourself clean (Keep yourself clean)
Or be a has-been (Ah-ah) Like Dinosaur, oh oh-oh.
why Man of advise (Man of advise) For everything nice (Everything nice)
You'd better think twice (Ah-ah) At least once more, oh oh.
repeat ad lib X - why
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Cheese and Onions Lyrics as written by Lennon Innes
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