"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.
Come on, ain't I too uptown
To be flanked by pariahs
Every place that I frequent.
Low budget call girls and their sordid clients.
Ew. I'm surrounded by heathens.
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
Ain't a goddamn one of you
Dipshit American pricks here with morals.
Oh excuse me, convictions
Gs, scenesters, yuppies, guidos.
What should I call you?
Fucking hollow traditions.
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
You trendies and all of your clones
Are the equivalent of shit to me.
Man, what a lame ass time and place to be alive.
Fuck it.
Have I stooped so low handcuffed in pajamas
In front of Momma.
Have you ever sold coke to a high school acquaintance
At a highway Mcdonalds
And felt like a faithless wretch that the world just swallowed?
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
These yuppies and all of their blow
Are the equivalent of shit to me.
Make it a car bomb and captain n coke
And I'm gonna need a L.I.T.
This brother just wanna just wanna go home.
Dude, I ain't got the stomach to dance.
Where my car keys?
To be flanked by pariahs
Every place that I frequent.
Low budget call girls and their sordid clients.
Ew. I'm surrounded by heathens.
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
Ain't a goddamn one of you
Dipshit American pricks here with morals.
Oh excuse me, convictions
Gs, scenesters, yuppies, guidos.
What should I call you?
Fucking hollow traditions.
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
You trendies and all of your clones
Are the equivalent of shit to me.
Man, what a lame ass time and place to be alive.
Fuck it.
Have I stooped so low handcuffed in pajamas
In front of Momma.
Have you ever sold coke to a high school acquaintance
At a highway Mcdonalds
And felt like a faithless wretch that the world just swallowed?
This brother just wanna go home
Or everybody else to leave.
These yuppies and all of their blow
Are the equivalent of shit to me.
Make it a car bomb and captain n coke
And I'm gonna need a L.I.T.
This brother just wanna just wanna go home.
Dude, I ain't got the stomach to dance.
Where my car keys?
Lyrics submitted by VampedVixen
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