"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.
Awwwwwww shit.
Look who got a website.
That's right.
Dot com.
What the fuck.
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
New York City it's up!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Staten Island.
Ancient Sumerians
Anna Faris...
Ohhh shit.
Well if I could get around to my rhymes
Then I could destroy galaxies
of alt.country wannabees
With a bottle of whisky
And a wizard and a mime
Until then?
Dot com motherfucker!
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
New York City!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Staten Island
Yo!
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Anna Feris ohhhh
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Anna Feris you out of this world
like ancient Sumerians
apparently we came from ancient Sumerians
they came down and gave the world a bunch of technology
because they wanted to clone themselves and that was
and maybe be on the Earth
and get some some stuff that they needed
for their planet
but then they had to split
so they went to another planet
we stayed here
and now we just yell at each other
and have milkshakes
Hi Anna
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Awww shit Anna Feris
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
You a g-g-g-g-genius
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Kevin Bacon was a cock!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Well up these streets are digital roads
Goin into your mind like if you think it was your nose
and your nose was sucking coke and drinksin E
Trippin' too hard and gotta be
What was a dezzin Kevin Bacon
Makin Waterworld 3
They ain't even made 2 yet
Yo that was Costner partner
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
kevincostner.com what the fuck?
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
two thousand and three
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
updated by witches
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
This website's updated by witches
witches
witches n' me
weird witches
roll about and leap
with their hair on fire
and their nails long
and they're screaming at animals and people
and they're going crazy
and they need to take a break from recording
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Aww shit - it's a long record.
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
c-c-c-c-c-c-critics
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
One and a half stars yeah!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Aww shit
One and a half stars
3 records sold
my record went balsa wood
in Indio or someplace that I'm not from
you know what I'm saying man?
And then the guy goes "This record is very long and sappy.
Basically he's alternative country but crappy."
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Look who got a website.
That's right.
Dot com.
What the fuck.
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
New York City it's up!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Staten Island.
Ancient Sumerians
Anna Faris...
Ohhh shit.
Well if I could get around to my rhymes
Then I could destroy galaxies
of alt.country wannabees
With a bottle of whisky
And a wizard and a mime
Until then?
Dot com motherfucker!
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
New York City!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Staten Island
Yo!
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Anna Feris ohhhh
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Anna Feris you out of this world
like ancient Sumerians
apparently we came from ancient Sumerians
they came down and gave the world a bunch of technology
because they wanted to clone themselves and that was
and maybe be on the Earth
and get some some stuff that they needed
for their planet
but then they had to split
so they went to another planet
we stayed here
and now we just yell at each other
and have milkshakes
Hi Anna
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Awww shit Anna Feris
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
You a g-g-g-g-genius
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Kevin Bacon was a cock!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Well up these streets are digital roads
Goin into your mind like if you think it was your nose
and your nose was sucking coke and drinksin E
Trippin' too hard and gotta be
What was a dezzin Kevin Bacon
Makin Waterworld 3
They ain't even made 2 yet
Yo that was Costner partner
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
kevincostner.com what the fuck?
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
two thousand and three
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
updated by witches
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
This website's updated by witches
witches
witches n' me
weird witches
roll about and leap
with their hair on fire
and their nails long
and they're screaming at animals and people
and they're going crazy
and they need to take a break from recording
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Aww shit - it's a long record.
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
c-c-c-c-c-c-critics
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
One and a half stars yeah!
CHORUS: Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Aww shit
One and a half stars
3 records sold
my record went balsa wood
in Indio or someplace that I'm not from
you know what I'm saying man?
And then the guy goes "This record is very long and sappy.
Basically he's alternative country but crappy."
CHORUS: Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Welcome to RyanAdams.com motherfucker
Mix masters please report to the dance floor
Lyrics submitted by Noli, edited by stickie pants
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