"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.
Eric, Wren, and Jensen were activists
Heads loaded with theory, their hearts were filled with passion
They shared the same left wing politics, like the same music, they were part of the protest movement
Anna presented herself as a feminist, studied the way they talked and dressed, fashioned herself an anarchist
Eric fell in love with Anna after meeting at a Crimethinc conference
He didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
The headline called them "The Believers"; comparisons were made to a terrorist organization
Anna had the car, Anna paid the rent, Anna helped find the recipe to make the explosives
She encouraged her friends to follow through with their plan, they were going to build a bomb and blow up the Nimbus dam
Their conversations were being recorded, they didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
Black suburbans and AR-15 rifles
Agents made their arrest in a K-Mart parking lot
Caught with the supplies for the bomb in hand, the three were charged with conspiracy against the government
Wren and Jensen traded testimony in exchange for leniency
Eric was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary
Eric, Wren, and Jensen were activists
They didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
Heads loaded with theory, their hearts were filled with passion
They shared the same left wing politics, like the same music, they were part of the protest movement
Anna presented herself as a feminist, studied the way they talked and dressed, fashioned herself an anarchist
Eric fell in love with Anna after meeting at a Crimethinc conference
He didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
The headline called them "The Believers"; comparisons were made to a terrorist organization
Anna had the car, Anna paid the rent, Anna helped find the recipe to make the explosives
She encouraged her friends to follow through with their plan, they were going to build a bomb and blow up the Nimbus dam
Their conversations were being recorded, they didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
Black suburbans and AR-15 rifles
Agents made their arrest in a K-Mart parking lot
Caught with the supplies for the bomb in hand, the three were charged with conspiracy against the government
Wren and Jensen traded testimony in exchange for leniency
Eric was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary
Eric, Wren, and Jensen were activists
They didn't know it, but Anna was an FBI informant
Eric fell in love with an FBI informant
He shared his dreams of revolution, now he's sitting in solitary confinement
Be careful what you think, be careful what you say, it might be used against you in court one day
Anna thinks she's a hawk, but she's just a fucking snitch
Lyrics submitted by MizunoPunk
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the song pretty much speaks for itself. It's about the Sacramento Three, 3 environmental activists. A girl who went by the name of "Anna" was hired by the FBI to infiltrate their group and pass along info to the authorities about their activities, recording conversations, etc.