"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.
[UNKLESOUNDS - Intro]
You sure look nice, what's your name?
You sure are cute eh? I'll see you after the show baby
Mighty mighty!
An adventure unlike anything on your planet planet planet
U-u-u-u
N-n-n-n
K-k-k-k
L-l-l-l
E-e-e-e
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Ladies and gentlemen...
2000!
Unkle!
[Rare Earth - Get Ready]
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-
Get ready, the UNKLE!
Ooh-oh-ho!
We can get well, you know we
Get ready!
Come with us into the realm of imagination
Unkle! Get ready!
Unkle!
Unkle...
[UNKLE - Lonely Souls (Unklesounds Edit)]
I'm in range of the reconnaissance vessel
But I'm hit on my left front stabiliser
I'm switching circuits to compensate but
It's gonna take some time!
I need those siders!
The siders are locked support
If they were target for the rendezvous...
I'm losing stability, I can't shake him
I'm now switchi-
Seventy seven, are you there?
Seventy seven, do you copy?
Seventy seven?!
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows, God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls!
God knows, God knows
G-g-g-god knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lo
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lo
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lonely souls
Church
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows, G-g-g-god knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo, Lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo, Lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
There's no secret to living (There's no secret to living)
Just keep on walking
Lonely souls
There's no secret to dying (There's no secret to dying)
Just keep on flying
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
There's no secret to living (There's no secret to living)
Just keep on walking
There's no secret to dying (There's no secret to dying)
Just keep on flying
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Church, church, church, church
[Psychonauts - Circles]
An' sock it to you, rock it to you
Livin' on your left
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel, rolling
Never ending or beginning
Harder than this feels
Harder than this feels
Like a snowball
Like a snowball, down a mountain
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel, rolling
[Giorgio Moroder - Tears]
[DJ Shadow - Organ Donor]
U-N-K-L-E
The mighty feel my lovin'
The mighty feel my lovin'
[DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)]
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
[Japanese]
Sex Machine!
The sex machine!
The sex machine!
The sex machine!
You've heard about it, now you can feel it!
Philadelphia's number one psychadelic hot-spot
Holding your very hip
It's here and it puts Philadelphia on the map!
Come to the sex machine!
And fill your mind
It's an explosion of lights, sights and sounds
that'll touch you, change you, and rearrange you!
Got to dig it!
Come to the sex machine!
If your future were told by mystic gypsies
If dancing is your thing,
You can jump to the devil's beat!
And let the music and the synchronized drumbeats take you higher!
It's live and I tell you,
It's beautiful people, it's everything you need to get it together!
The sex machine!
Get it on 57th street avenue
... Parking
You've got to get on up to get on down!
The sex machine!
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
No wonder the sound has so much body...
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
Unkle mixtape
James Lavelle and Richard File
Our rightful entertainment
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
[South - Broken Head II]
An' I'll sock it to you 'til you get enoug
Over to you baby
Make-a no mistake-a take-a
[South - Broken Head (Jagz Kooner Mix)]
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rockin', rockin', rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
[Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer]
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
The fucked up sounds of unkle...
[Garbage - The World Is Not Enough (Unkle Remix Beats)]
Yo put some mother fuckin' bass!
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Turn the whole shit up, turn the whole shit up
Turn the whole shit up, turn the whole shit up
Got big ass speakers, man
big ass speakers, man
Yo put some mother fuckin' bass!
Bass, bass, bass
Got big ass speakers, man
And you know where this motherfuckers... spot
And you can't turn this, turn that mother fucker up
Blast this shit
Fuck that man, turn the whole motherfucker up!
[Sunna - I'm Not Trading (Unkle Remix Instrumental)]
I, I, I
[UNKLE - Nursery Rhyme (Unklesounds Edit)]
UK
Bang in your face with the hardest joints on the street
Nothing but big things
Now drop the bomb!
[Undecipherable * 2]
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Won't you si-, won't you
Won't you sing me a
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
W-w-w-won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
[Undecipherable]
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
You see the view...
[Undecipherable * 4]
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
You're on fire, you're on fire
You're on fire, you're on fire
You're on fire, you're on fire
Keep me quiet, breathe the air you breathe!
[Blur - Battle (Unkle Remix)]
Unklesounds...
This is offroad mission control
Notifying central MCP
We've lost contact with U N K L E 77
Repeat, we've lost...
Does anybody out there copy?
This is offroad mission control
Notifying central MCP
We've lost contact with U N K L E 77
Repeat, ...
Please review for me the nine levels of power!
Rin! Strength... of mind, and body
Pyo! Direction... of energy
Do! Harmony... with the universe
Shah! Healing... self and others
Kai! Premenition... of danger
Gin! Knowing... the thoughts of others
Retsu! Mastery... of time and space
Zai! Controlling... the elements of nature
Jen! Enlightenment...
You have done well
You have passed every test
Completion Search
Here I love the bow
See me, walk on down to
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
You are listening to the sounds of unkle
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
With the battle
With the battle
With the battle
With the battle
In this battle...
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
Completion Search
Here I love the bow
See me, walk on down to
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
You sure look nice, what's your name?
You sure are cute eh? I'll see you after the show baby
Mighty mighty!
An adventure unlike anything on your planet planet planet
U-u-u-u
N-n-n-n
K-k-k-k
L-l-l-l
E-e-e-e
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Rockin', rockin', rockin', rockin'
Ladies and gentlemen...
2000!
Unkle!
[Rare Earth - Get Ready]
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-get ready
Get ready, get ready, get re-
Get ready, the UNKLE!
Ooh-oh-ho!
We can get well, you know we
Get ready!
Come with us into the realm of imagination
Unkle! Get ready!
Unkle!
Unkle...
[UNKLE - Lonely Souls (Unklesounds Edit)]
I'm in range of the reconnaissance vessel
But I'm hit on my left front stabiliser
I'm switching circuits to compensate but
It's gonna take some time!
I need those siders!
The siders are locked support
If they were target for the rendezvous...
I'm losing stability, I can't shake him
I'm now switchi-
Seventy seven, are you there?
Seventy seven, do you copy?
Seventy seven?!
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows, God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls!
God knows, God knows
G-g-g-god knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lo
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lo
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-lo-lonely souls
Church
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows, G-g-g-god knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo, Lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo, Lonely souls
G-g-g-g-god knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
There's no secret to living (There's no secret to living)
Just keep on walking
Lonely souls
There's no secret to dying (There's no secret to dying)
Just keep on flying
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lo-Lo-Lonely souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
There's no secret to living (There's no secret to living)
Just keep on walking
There's no secret to dying (There's no secret to dying)
Just keep on flying
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Souls, souls, souls, souls
God knows, God knows
God knows you're lonely souls
Church, church, church, church
[Psychonauts - Circles]
An' sock it to you, rock it to you
Livin' on your left
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel, rolling
Never ending or beginning
Harder than this feels
Harder than this feels
Like a snowball
Like a snowball, down a mountain
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel, rolling
[Giorgio Moroder - Tears]
[DJ Shadow - Organ Donor]
U-N-K-L-E
The mighty feel my lovin'
The mighty feel my lovin'
[DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)]
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
[Japanese]
Sex Machine!
The sex machine!
The sex machine!
The sex machine!
You've heard about it, now you can feel it!
Philadelphia's number one psychadelic hot-spot
Holding your very hip
It's here and it puts Philadelphia on the map!
Come to the sex machine!
And fill your mind
It's an explosion of lights, sights and sounds
that'll touch you, change you, and rearrange you!
Got to dig it!
Come to the sex machine!
If your future were told by mystic gypsies
If dancing is your thing,
You can jump to the devil's beat!
And let the music and the synchronized drumbeats take you higher!
It's live and I tell you,
It's beautiful people, it's everything you need to get it together!
The sex machine!
Get it on 57th street avenue
... Parking
You've got to get on up to get on down!
The sex machine!
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
No wonder the sound has so much body...
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
Unkle mixtape
James Lavelle and Richard File
Our rightful entertainment
The mighty feel my lovin'
Playin' that funky solo!
[South - Broken Head II]
An' I'll sock it to you 'til you get enoug
Over to you baby
Make-a no mistake-a take-a
[South - Broken Head (Jagz Kooner Mix)]
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rockin', rockin', rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rockin'
Keep on rock, rock, rockin'
[Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer]
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
Nicotine, valium, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol
The fucked up sounds of unkle...
[Garbage - The World Is Not Enough (Unkle Remix Beats)]
Yo put some mother fuckin' bass!
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Turn this mother fuckin' sound up man
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, blast this shit
Blast this shit, just turn the whole shit up
Turn the whole shit up, turn the whole shit up
Turn the whole shit up, turn the whole shit up
Got big ass speakers, man
big ass speakers, man
Yo put some mother fuckin' bass!
Bass, bass, bass
Got big ass speakers, man
And you know where this motherfuckers... spot
And you can't turn this, turn that mother fucker up
Blast this shit
Fuck that man, turn the whole motherfucker up!
[Sunna - I'm Not Trading (Unkle Remix Instrumental)]
I, I, I
[UNKLE - Nursery Rhyme (Unklesounds Edit)]
UK
Bang in your face with the hardest joints on the street
Nothing but big things
Now drop the bomb!
[Undecipherable * 2]
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Won't you si-, won't you
Won't you sing me a
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
W-w-w-won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
While you're on fire, while you're on fire
[Undecipherable]
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
You see the view...
[Undecipherable * 4]
Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet while you're on fire
Please just sing me a nursery rhyme
To keep me quiet, while I'm inside
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
I won't let you fall in love
You know inside, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows, the baby knows
You're on fire, you're on fire
You're on fire, you're on fire
You're on fire, you're on fire
Keep me quiet, breathe the air you breathe!
[Blur - Battle (Unkle Remix)]
Unklesounds...
This is offroad mission control
Notifying central MCP
We've lost contact with U N K L E 77
Repeat, we've lost...
Does anybody out there copy?
This is offroad mission control
Notifying central MCP
We've lost contact with U N K L E 77
Repeat, ...
Please review for me the nine levels of power!
Rin! Strength... of mind, and body
Pyo! Direction... of energy
Do! Harmony... with the universe
Shah! Healing... self and others
Kai! Premenition... of danger
Gin! Knowing... the thoughts of others
Retsu! Mastery... of time and space
Zai! Controlling... the elements of nature
Jen! Enlightenment...
You have done well
You have passed every test
Completion Search
Here I love the bow
See me, walk on down to
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
You are listening to the sounds of unkle
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
With the battle
With the battle
With the battle
With the battle
In this battle...
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
With the battle, with the battle
Completion Search
Here I love the bow
See me, walk on down to
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you
Lyrics submitted by random_monkey
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