"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.
Drop the gun, the one that’s stuck to my head
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
No one ever thought that I invented the wheel,
All I ever went through was something real
Creativity is still my gasoline
Oh, have you seen Scooby gaping after this machine?
Drop the gun, the one that’s stuck to my head
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
No, I’m not optimistic and I’m through this for you,
I’d rather battle my own canal
This is not a tune, or a simple device
No, this is the Machine 15, to be precise
Now, I’ve got official calculation
That will offer you the song
It’s got a hoise cartridge
So what’s the motivation, now?
What motions this circle?
And this has just begun,
You better drop the gun
Drop the gun
Drop the gun
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
The machine is turning fifteen
Drop the gun, the one that’s stuck to my head
(The machine is turning fifteen)
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
No one ever thought that I invented the wheel,
All I ever went through was something real
Creativity is still my gasoline
Oh, have you seen Scooby gaping after this machine?
Drop the gun, the one that’s stuck to my head
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
No, I’m not optimistic and I’m through this for you,
I’d rather battle my own canal
This is not a tune, or a simple device
No, this is the Machine 15, to be precise
Now, I’ve got official calculation
That will offer you the song
It’s got a hoise cartridge
So what’s the motivation, now?
What motions this circle?
And this has just begun,
You better drop the gun
Drop the gun
Drop the gun
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
(The machine is turning fifteen)
Drop the gun
The machine is turning fifteen
Drop the gun, the one that’s stuck to my head
(The machine is turning fifteen)
It’s just begun, you’re gone, you came walking free
(The machine is turning fifteen)
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
The machine is turning fifteen.
Lyrics submitted by AnnsoFuck
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Yeah. The band turned 15 in 2008. So there you go.
I�d rather battle my own canal - paddle my own canoe? MC rule.