"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.
Some say that I will
And some say I wonâ??t
Victory is an elusive whore
She is as easily mine
As she is yours
Slip and slide my way through this charade
I know all the players
And I must say
Do this long enough
Youâ??ll get a taste for it
Do this last one
And I promise somehow
Even trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What youâ??ve stole now
We have given
Code red staring
Code red staring at me
Well sometimes you do
And sometimes you donâ??t
Sometimes I love myself best of all
Do this long enough
Youâ??ll get a taste for it
A six-pack of Coke
And a bottle of Jack
Whatever you do
He said look after that yeah
Be trusted and
Could be worse than that
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise
Even trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What you stole now
We have given
Code red staring
Code red still rings
Code red
Come on baby
I can drink you down
And I have my Jack
To turn to well
Since you wonâ??t give them
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise
Leave your trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise somehow
Leave your trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What you stole now
We have given
Code red
Code red
Code red staring at me.
And some say I wonâ??t
Victory is an elusive whore
She is as easily mine
As she is yours
Slip and slide my way through this charade
I know all the players
And I must say
Do this long enough
Youâ??ll get a taste for it
Do this last one
And I promise somehow
Even trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What youâ??ve stole now
We have given
Code red staring
Code red staring at me
Well sometimes you do
And sometimes you donâ??t
Sometimes I love myself best of all
Do this long enough
Youâ??ll get a taste for it
A six-pack of Coke
And a bottle of Jack
Whatever you do
He said look after that yeah
Be trusted and
Could be worse than that
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise
Even trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What you stole now
We have given
Code red staring
Code red still rings
Code red
Come on baby
I can drink you down
And I have my Jack
To turn to well
Since you wonâ??t give them
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise
Leave your trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
Do this last one
And Iâ??ll promise somehow
Leave your trouble boy
Youâ??re beyond
What you stole now
We have given
Code red
Code red
Code red staring at me.
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Code Red Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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