"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.
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand
I want to be in the energy
Right with the enemy, a place for my head
I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night
Shining with the light from the sun
The sun doesn't give light to the moon
Assuming the moons gonna owe it one
And makes think of how you act to me
You do favors that rapidly
You just turn around and start asking me about
Things that you want back from me
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger
Sick of you acting like I owe you this
Find another place to feed your greed
While I find a place to rest
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger
Sick of you acting like I owe you this
Find another place to feed your greed
While I find a place to rest
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to
Two, two, three, three, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gimme Energon to keep me calm
You and your mom keep all the dram
Used to be a team, passed that baton
But you flop that bomb as you drop that bomb
Take it to the john in your Babylon
Flushed down with the sound that you carry on
I don't really give a dang, you pissed on my lawn
Took a dump like a punk, now the battle's on
So sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you somethin'
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't, we gon' bump, get it up, get crunk
Sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you somethin'
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't, we gon' bump, get it up, get crunk
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me (go away, go away, go away)
You try to take the (you)
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Stay away from me
They sound really tasty, man
Do you wanna work on "Pushing Me Away?"
Or do you want me to tell you the "With You" thing first?
We can work on "Pushing Me Away"
I tell you Black Thought's gonna do his thing?
I hate when you say you don't understand
I want to be in the energy
Right with the enemy, a place for my head
I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night
Shining with the light from the sun
The sun doesn't give light to the moon
Assuming the moons gonna owe it one
And makes think of how you act to me
You do favors that rapidly
You just turn around and start asking me about
Things that you want back from me
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger
Sick of you acting like I owe you this
Find another place to feed your greed
While I find a place to rest
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger
Sick of you acting like I owe you this
Find another place to feed your greed
While I find a place to rest
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to
Two, two, three, three, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gimme Energon to keep me calm
You and your mom keep all the dram
Used to be a team, passed that baton
But you flop that bomb as you drop that bomb
Take it to the john in your Babylon
Flushed down with the sound that you carry on
I don't really give a dang, you pissed on my lawn
Took a dump like a punk, now the battle's on
So sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you somethin'
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't, we gon' bump, get it up, get crunk
Sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you somethin'
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't, we gon' bump, get it up, get crunk
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
I want to be in another place
I hate when you say you don't understand (you'll see it's not meant to be)
I want to be in the energy
Not with the enemy, a place for my head
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me
You try to take the best of me, go away
You try to take the best of me (go away, go away, go away)
You try to take the (you)
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Go away, you try to take the best of me
Stay away from me
They sound really tasty, man
Do you wanna work on "Pushing Me Away?"
Or do you want me to tell you the "With You" thing first?
We can work on "Pushing Me Away"
I tell you Black Thought's gonna do his thing?
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