"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 don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go, oh yeah
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin, all this strain they're
Showin)
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin, only our way)
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
Getting in the way of only our way
(The smoke they're blowin, all this strain they're
Showin)
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin)
This time the government has gotta go
No doubt, they've sold out
But right now we can end the game they're playing
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
No doubt, they've sold out
But right now we can end the game they're playing
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome, I
Diving, diving, diving
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go, oh yeah
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin, all this strain they're
Showin)
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin, only our way)
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
Getting in the way of only our way
(The smoke they're blowin, all this strain they're
Showin)
They're getting in the way of
(The smoke they're blowin)
This time the government has gotta go
No doubt, they've sold out
But right now we can end the game they're playing
I don't listen at all to the government
I just say 'no, why do you hate?'
I don't listen at all to the government
The government has gotta go
No doubt, they've sold out
But right now we can end the game they're playing
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome
They won't make it better
Now or never
Overcome, I
Diving, diving, diving
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
On the edge, I dive, in the sunrise
Gonna be alright at the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
At the waterline
Lyrics submitted by godscoward
Swamp Lyrics as written by Lucius Nicoli Borich Flynn Eliot G Gower
Lyrics © CACOPHONY LIMITED
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