"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.
y hands shake,
and they long to be held in the cold,
cause the winters are hell when it snows,
'till the bodies are covered in,
60 years of crime in my family,
like my father and his before me,
??black cause the ...??,
they'll do what it takes,
to get the job done,
while smoking cigars that are too rich for some,
but they threw their hearts,
into the sea,
now they will beat forever,
with the bodies of their enemies,
cause they threw their hearts,
into the sea,
now they will beat forever,
with the bodies of their enemies,
ive been told,
that the worlds greatest heist will unfold,
when the clock strikes 12 and it tolls,
this time dont stand a chance,
in my room,
and the father is at the door,
his heir and the next crimelord,
my hands long to be held,
ooooooooo, oooooo, ooooo
(clapping)
and they long to be held in the cold,
cause the winters are hell when it snows,
'till the bodies are covered in,
60 years of crime in my family,
like my father and his before me,
??black cause the ...??,
they'll do what it takes,
to get the job done,
while smoking cigars that are too rich for some,
but they threw their hearts,
into the sea,
now they will beat forever,
with the bodies of their enemies,
cause they threw their hearts,
into the sea,
now they will beat forever,
with the bodies of their enemies,
ive been told,
that the worlds greatest heist will unfold,
when the clock strikes 12 and it tolls,
this time dont stand a chance,
in my room,
and the father is at the door,
his heir and the next crimelord,
my hands long to be held,
ooooooooo, oooooo, ooooo
(clapping)
Lyrics submitted by monkeymong, edited by chamacuti
A Lesson in Crime Lyrics as written by Joshua G Hook Gregory Jarrett Alsop
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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