"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.
Mrs. Hemmings was OAO,
Pretty soon we were all OAO,
We were captured by victorian vampires.
With elaborate designs
With elaborate designs
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
Left//
We are a romanian sound collage
searching for the ghost of past sinners (?)
but this futile coffin will not
let us gain entry
into the immortal soul
of the redneck!!
you are trapped in your basement
for a war of 16 years
to combat prevention
and in combat with yourself
we are in combat with these cultural vampires
we were trapped in the basement
we were trapped in the basement of the teenage halfway hell!!
Right\
Old black bandit
I can't stand it
I'm your planet
Old black bandit
I can't stand it
I'm your planet
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
Pretty soon we were all OAO,
We were captured by victorian vampires.
With elaborate designs
With elaborate designs
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
Left//
We are a romanian sound collage
searching for the ghost of past sinners (?)
but this futile coffin will not
let us gain entry
into the immortal soul
of the redneck!!
you are trapped in your basement
for a war of 16 years
to combat prevention
and in combat with yourself
we are in combat with these cultural vampires
we were trapped in the basement
we were trapped in the basement of the teenage halfway hell!!
Right\
Old black bandit
I can't stand it
I'm your planet
Old black bandit
I can't stand it
I'm your planet
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
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During end of the spoken part, I swear the left ear says: "...trapped in the basement of the [motherfucking] halfway hell!" Also, I thought it was "halfway house" at first, not "halfway hell", but I can see how it might be "hell".
Or rather, "...the audio from the left ear is..."
They definitely say motherfucking. It's just particularly distorted. Also, I thought the same exact thing. High five!