"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.
Girl on my wall, when i wake up
i want to give you a call
you are on the stone, you are taped up with tape
i want to get with you in a first date fashion
You know, it's bout time to pass these rhymes to drrty byl
wanna kill ya sweater, wanna take off your panties
gonna take you away from daddy and your mammy
gonna take to the store
gonna put you on the floor
like a little whore six year old girl,
that's my name drrty byl
got my feel for your underwear and your panty panties
come over here i'm gonna be your new big male nanny
hanky panky
little spanky
little girl i saw you on my wall
i jumped up and you just done broke my fall
looked at your picture and i almost melted
thought of our childhood, and how you were so sheltered
always wanted to go ride bikes with you
butcha mommy said no, "patience is a virtue"
really pissed you off; so you hopped out your window,
met me down the block, you was a real true friend though
we rode way down the street,
velcro shoes were upon our feet
not much else to do when we were nine
wind in our hair we was feelin really fine
put your sweatband on, put your sweatband on
were gonna go for a run
gonna go get sweaty in our buns
gonna go get our athletic shorts on
you know, i've got to get with you
after the show cuz i've got a cardovascular thing to do
to show you it's about my little rhymes step with my little
hot rock bet i've got with the hoes'
you know they all up in my area codes
because the little blue box inside of my face
is all about the rhymes that i want to place
on the WALL when i wake up and SING when i give you a CALL cuz ur the girl on the WALL
girl you know when you gave me a ring,
it made me want to sing
coming right out getting up at seven
so i can can take you on a lyrical trip to heaven
to heaven straight above
oh filled my rhymes with love
just like my sinuses are full
of the mucus and it's cool
and we're hanging with the skulls
hanging on the wall,
rock it out with the frat boy people
this is the sound of the ring of the tones
and the ring of my finger
on the ring of the phone this isn't very audio yall
step down to my side of town look at my frown i feel so down
but i'm not
i'm just drrty byl i'm coverd in dirt
that's my game
that's my name don't wear it out
when i cruise down the street the ladies want to shout at me
i want to give you a call
you are on the stone, you are taped up with tape
i want to get with you in a first date fashion
You know, it's bout time to pass these rhymes to drrty byl
wanna kill ya sweater, wanna take off your panties
gonna take you away from daddy and your mammy
gonna take to the store
gonna put you on the floor
like a little whore six year old girl,
that's my name drrty byl
got my feel for your underwear and your panty panties
come over here i'm gonna be your new big male nanny
hanky panky
little spanky
little girl i saw you on my wall
i jumped up and you just done broke my fall
looked at your picture and i almost melted
thought of our childhood, and how you were so sheltered
always wanted to go ride bikes with you
butcha mommy said no, "patience is a virtue"
really pissed you off; so you hopped out your window,
met me down the block, you was a real true friend though
we rode way down the street,
velcro shoes were upon our feet
not much else to do when we were nine
wind in our hair we was feelin really fine
put your sweatband on, put your sweatband on
were gonna go for a run
gonna go get sweaty in our buns
gonna go get our athletic shorts on
you know, i've got to get with you
after the show cuz i've got a cardovascular thing to do
to show you it's about my little rhymes step with my little
hot rock bet i've got with the hoes'
you know they all up in my area codes
because the little blue box inside of my face
is all about the rhymes that i want to place
on the WALL when i wake up and SING when i give you a CALL cuz ur the girl on the WALL
girl you know when you gave me a ring,
it made me want to sing
coming right out getting up at seven
so i can can take you on a lyrical trip to heaven
to heaven straight above
oh filled my rhymes with love
just like my sinuses are full
of the mucus and it's cool
and we're hanging with the skulls
hanging on the wall,
rock it out with the frat boy people
this is the sound of the ring of the tones
and the ring of my finger
on the ring of the phone this isn't very audio yall
step down to my side of town look at my frown i feel so down
but i'm not
i'm just drrty byl i'm coverd in dirt
that's my game
that's my name don't wear it out
when i cruise down the street the ladies want to shout at me
Lyrics submitted by CSutherland
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