"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.
Show me, show me, show me a starry-eyed kid
I, I, I will break his jaw
I won't, I won't, I won't let him get his hopes up
No, oh, oh, oh
And I will save him from himself
Here's a picture with a note
"No, don't turn out like me"
It's only for your own good
No, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And haven't you heard
The word on the street is
"I lost it, called it quits"
Get it into the sun
Out from behind the gossip
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, k-keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Even when there's n-n-nothing worth living for
You're still, you're still, still worth lying for
N-no one has to know-ow-ow
And haven't you heard
The word on the street is
"I lost it, called it quits"
Get it into the sun
Out from behind the gossip
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old (this story's getting old)
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old (this story's getting old)
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
Now-ow-ow-ow, now-ow-ow-ow, now-ow-ow-ow
Stop!
I, I, I will break his jaw
I won't, I won't, I won't let him get his hopes up
No, oh, oh, oh
And I will save him from himself
Here's a picture with a note
"No, don't turn out like me"
It's only for your own good
No, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And haven't you heard
The word on the street is
"I lost it, called it quits"
Get it into the sun
Out from behind the gossip
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, k-keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Even when there's n-n-nothing worth living for
You're still, you're still, still worth lying for
N-no one has to know-ow-ow
And haven't you heard
The word on the street is
"I lost it, called it quits"
Get it into the sun
Out from behind the gossip
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old (this story's getting old)
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
This story's getting old
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind
Keep, keep talking
Keep this alive
This story's getting old (this story's getting old)
The homewrecker with a heart of gold
Keep you locked up in the trunk of my mind now-ow-ow-ow
Now-ow-ow-ow, now-ow-ow-ow, now-ow-ow-ow
Stop!
Lyrics submitted by fedhed7, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers Lyrics as written by Joseph Mark Trohman Andrew John Hurley
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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