"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.
Listen everybody to what I say
Halleluja, it´s judgement day
Kregs and parites every day
Mentors are here to stay
I love it when your head hangs like
A bowling ball tied to spaghetti
Because when I hack it
I´ll do it with a rusty machete
Watch out all creeps and all you fags
Listen to me, wimps with those shags
Being faggy and lookin´ like a bitch
You´ll be shucked and dumped in a ditch
All you new wavers on the block
I´m gonna ball your sister when I rock
Yeah baby, be a lay
Come on now it´s your judgement day
Judgement day, Mentors all the way
All you rich kids make daddy buy your amps
But your tired music gives my ears the cramps
I wanna be poor and play judgement rock
Than look Sissy like a peacock
All you lesbos with your leather and spikes
All you are lesbians and dykes
Put on your combat boots and hike
Because you´re just another dinbat dyke
It´s judgement day, it´s here to stay every day
It´s judgement day
All you faggots, this is what I have to say
Cut off your heads, kill every gay
I don´t care if my buddies are afraids
They don´t wanna get no herpes or no AIDS
Come on now, you don´t wann fall like Rome
And become another home - and be gay
Kill ém every day, fag bashin´ all the way
No more sickness and no more AIDS
No more faggots, they should be beat up every day
hallelujha, we´re here to stay
Mentors all the way!
Halleluja, it´s judgement day
Kregs and parites every day
Mentors are here to stay
I love it when your head hangs like
A bowling ball tied to spaghetti
Because when I hack it
I´ll do it with a rusty machete
Watch out all creeps and all you fags
Listen to me, wimps with those shags
Being faggy and lookin´ like a bitch
You´ll be shucked and dumped in a ditch
All you new wavers on the block
I´m gonna ball your sister when I rock
Yeah baby, be a lay
Come on now it´s your judgement day
Judgement day, Mentors all the way
All you rich kids make daddy buy your amps
But your tired music gives my ears the cramps
I wanna be poor and play judgement rock
Than look Sissy like a peacock
All you lesbos with your leather and spikes
All you are lesbians and dykes
Put on your combat boots and hike
Because you´re just another dinbat dyke
It´s judgement day, it´s here to stay every day
It´s judgement day
All you faggots, this is what I have to say
Cut off your heads, kill every gay
I don´t care if my buddies are afraids
They don´t wanna get no herpes or no AIDS
Come on now, you don´t wann fall like Rome
And become another home - and be gay
Kill ém every day, fag bashin´ all the way
No more sickness and no more AIDS
No more faggots, they should be beat up every day
hallelujha, we´re here to stay
Mentors all the way!
Lyrics submitted by Count_Grim
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