"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.
Siamese, Portuguese, dirty knees
Look at these
Rookies around us
Aren't you glad you found us?
Now if you are who you say you are
Get up here to the bar
We'll plot out a plan
To take down the man
We'll start with that new future super star
And steal all their decorative rocks
We'll fight all their rent-a-cops
And for the freeway maintainers
Who assist our escape
We got sandwiches, juice
And cold Gatorade
We'll expose all the bicyclists
Who really are
DUI students who can't drive their cars
And we'll take stucco dust
And wet dry wall sludge
Combine 'em just right
To make fuck the valley fudge
Applebee's, Chuckie Cheese, dirty deeds
Don't you see?
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Nepalese, anti-freeze, calories
Can't you see?
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Fuck the valley fudge
My hate
My love
Fuck the valley fudge
Fuck the valley
Fuuuuuuuuuck
Look at these
Rookies around us
Aren't you glad you found us?
Now if you are who you say you are
Get up here to the bar
We'll plot out a plan
To take down the man
We'll start with that new future super star
And steal all their decorative rocks
We'll fight all their rent-a-cops
And for the freeway maintainers
Who assist our escape
We got sandwiches, juice
And cold Gatorade
We'll expose all the bicyclists
Who really are
DUI students who can't drive their cars
And we'll take stucco dust
And wet dry wall sludge
Combine 'em just right
To make fuck the valley fudge
Applebee's, Chuckie Cheese, dirty deeds
Don't you see?
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Nepalese, anti-freeze, calories
Can't you see?
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Fuck the valley fudge
It's my hate and my love
Fuck the valley fudge
My hate
My love
Fuck the valley fudge
Fuck the valley
Fuuuuuuuuuck
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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