"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.
verse 1:
Hey everybody we're goin to neils party
got you a drink in the hand, one, one as the place to have some fun got you a spliff in the other hand ?? rockin until the mornin light one as the place to feel alright, and i said
chorus:
all i wants for all the world to go away
cuz lately things have been crazy
whos gonna save me from myself
all i knoww theres no place like it and if you like it then i might suggest you come around again
and im soo stoned tht all the music that surrounds us will remind me of the mess that we came from
verse 2:
then we go and throw it down for the world in amazement what you think we're doin all this time in the basement mixin the reggae the rock and the ska punk and dub know that all i want is what i got nothin else i require nothin else here that i need well the smoke dnot mean theres fire cuz the smoke here smells like weed
chorus
the show we dont stop cuz this night aint gonna start up on its own
stil believin that theres freedom comin out my stereo and its hard to define but it feels lkind of like i've lost all sense of time and i cant go homee tonighttttt.
soem dude
alllllllllllll i knowwwwwwwwwwwwww
theres no place like it and if you like it then i might suggest you come around again
and im soooo stoneeeeeeeeddd music that surrounds us will remind me of the mess that we came from
soo messed uppp oooooooooohhhhhh
Hey everybody we're goin to neils party
got you a drink in the hand, one, one as the place to have some fun got you a spliff in the other hand ?? rockin until the mornin light one as the place to feel alright, and i said
chorus:
all i wants for all the world to go away
cuz lately things have been crazy
whos gonna save me from myself
all i knoww theres no place like it and if you like it then i might suggest you come around again
and im soo stoned tht all the music that surrounds us will remind me of the mess that we came from
verse 2:
then we go and throw it down for the world in amazement what you think we're doin all this time in the basement mixin the reggae the rock and the ska punk and dub know that all i want is what i got nothin else i require nothin else here that i need well the smoke dnot mean theres fire cuz the smoke here smells like weed
chorus
the show we dont stop cuz this night aint gonna start up on its own
stil believin that theres freedom comin out my stereo and its hard to define but it feels lkind of like i've lost all sense of time and i cant go homee tonighttttt.
soem dude
alllllllllllll i knowwwwwwwwwwwwww
theres no place like it and if you like it then i might suggest you come around again
and im soooo stoneeeeeeeeddd music that surrounds us will remind me of the mess that we came from
soo messed uppp oooooooooohhhhhh
Lyrics submitted by ak;ljdf;kald.
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