"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.
Don't take, don't take, don't break my amateur art
Ne te moques pas, te fous pas, te fous pas, casses pas
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
We're the Blue Peter generation
Brought up on amateur creation
Check our hobbies and collections
Our lower middle class directions
My work's won kiddie competitions
Filled leisure time with my inventions
Read books that stretched imagination
I loved my breaktime education
Don't take, don't take, don't break my amateur art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my heart
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
I heart my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
We're the pre-mixed generation
Buy into quicker-fix emotion
Grown up, want only-child attention
Fed up on going through the motions
Dress up and kill the television
Play names and word association
Paint sounds, electro conversation
Go games and adult education
Don't take, don't take, don't break my cut and paste art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
Don't take, don't take, don't break my amateur art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
I heart my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY
Ne te moques pas, te fous pas, te fous pas, casses pas
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
We're the Blue Peter generation
Brought up on amateur creation
Check our hobbies and collections
Our lower middle class directions
My work's won kiddie competitions
Filled leisure time with my inventions
Read books that stretched imagination
I loved my breaktime education
Don't take, don't take, don't break my amateur art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my heart
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
I heart my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
We're the pre-mixed generation
Buy into quicker-fix emotion
Grown up, want only-child attention
Fed up on going through the motions
Dress up and kill the television
Play names and word association
Paint sounds, electro conversation
Go games and adult education
Don't take, don't take, don't break my cut and paste art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
Don't take, don't take, don't break my amateur art
I heart my art
Don't make, don't make, don't make a joke of my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY - Do or die
(Why don't you...sing write paint make?)
DIY - Do or die
DIY - oh why
(Why don't you...DIY)
DIY - do do do...
DIY - why not
I heart my art
Ne plaisantes pas avec mon art
DIY
Lyrics submitted by Neota
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