"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.
I was walking home from school one day
When I saw Danny standing there
I tried to show him my dirty underwear
He showed me his and nothing would compare
And he said
CHORUS
You're ugly
What the fuck gave birth to you?
You're ugly
And I bet your mom is too
You're ugly
Man what's with that doo?
You're ugly because you're ugly
I kinda wonder when I think back to those days
Why did all the boys get scared and run away?
So I looked in the mirror to see if it was true
My reflection looked at me like it was scared too
And it said
CHORUS
Let me tell you guys a little story about my second grade love. His name
was Danny and he looked so good this one day in his plaid Tuffskins. And
everyday after school I would go pick him up at his classroom, and one day
these three girls came out before he did, and this one girl named Heidi
Weller had this handfull of pumpkind seeds. And I said, "Let me see those
pumpkin seeds," and she said, "No." And I grabbed her hand and I said,
"Let me see those pumpkind seeds now, bitch!" And I looked at them and
they had Danny Irving's name written on every one of them damn pumpkin
seeds and I said, "Hey bitch! That's my boyfriend! Why do you have my
boyfriend's name written on all your pumpkin seeds? I'm gonna have to kick
your fuckin' ass, bitch!" And you know what she had the nerve to say to
me? She said...
When I saw Danny standing there
I tried to show him my dirty underwear
He showed me his and nothing would compare
And he said
CHORUS
You're ugly
What the fuck gave birth to you?
You're ugly
And I bet your mom is too
You're ugly
Man what's with that doo?
You're ugly because you're ugly
I kinda wonder when I think back to those days
Why did all the boys get scared and run away?
So I looked in the mirror to see if it was true
My reflection looked at me like it was scared too
And it said
CHORUS
Let me tell you guys a little story about my second grade love. His name
was Danny and he looked so good this one day in his plaid Tuffskins. And
everyday after school I would go pick him up at his classroom, and one day
these three girls came out before he did, and this one girl named Heidi
Weller had this handfull of pumpkind seeds. And I said, "Let me see those
pumpkin seeds," and she said, "No." And I grabbed her hand and I said,
"Let me see those pumpkind seeds now, bitch!" And I looked at them and
they had Danny Irving's name written on every one of them damn pumpkin
seeds and I said, "Hey bitch! That's my boyfriend! Why do you have my
boyfriend's name written on all your pumpkin seeds? I'm gonna have to kick
your fuckin' ass, bitch!" And you know what she had the nerve to say to
me? She said...
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