"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.
All the women in the factory
When their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
I have to feed them facts to be alone
Magnifico!
Oh, fellas and umbrellas in the middle of the night
What you gonna do when the menonites bite?
Lock lips in the teddy boy's cheverolet
Dutch tips and you're punked in the alleyway
Novotel, the phone's tapped anyway
Novotel, I need something of my own
No dice, I feed them facts to be alone and alone and alone, yeah
Smoke crack like Isaac Asimov
Faux black delayed reaction of
Sure enough she's snuggling up to me
I've got to feed them facts
She never listened when I tell her that I wanna go
She should have come when I invited you to see my show
Gee it's a pitty that your momma had to get away
I've got to break for the holiday
Down in the factory
I've got to bring them back to me
As if you care I don't want to combat you there
Down in the factory when their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
I have to feed them facts to be alone
Magnifico!
And the women don't look back to me
I got a motel momma down in the cannery
I've got to feed them facts to be alone and alone and alone, yeah
When their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
I have to feed them facts to be alone
Magnifico!
Oh, fellas and umbrellas in the middle of the night
What you gonna do when the menonites bite?
Lock lips in the teddy boy's cheverolet
Dutch tips and you're punked in the alleyway
Novotel, the phone's tapped anyway
Novotel, I need something of my own
No dice, I feed them facts to be alone and alone and alone, yeah
Smoke crack like Isaac Asimov
Faux black delayed reaction of
Sure enough she's snuggling up to me
I've got to feed them facts
She never listened when I tell her that I wanna go
She should have come when I invited you to see my show
Gee it's a pitty that your momma had to get away
I've got to break for the holiday
Down in the factory
I've got to bring them back to me
As if you care I don't want to combat you there
Down in the factory when their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
I have to feed them facts to be alone
Magnifico!
And the women don't look back to me
I got a motel momma down in the cannery
I've got to feed them facts to be alone and alone and alone, yeah
Lyrics submitted by dillygirl, edited by hornytheclown
Novotel Lyrics as written by Adam Green
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