"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.
Fresh to death and dressed to digress.
I'm just a tiger and I'm lookin for a tigress.
My guess is that you might bless,
me with your holy water just like you were a pope baby.
You got me hangin from a rope lady,
just like a tire swing lovin you is tiring.
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
I've been to Prague, I've been to Iraq
In search of booty and I never came back.
Where you from? you must be Japanese-Jamaican
'cause your panties are making me hot and I'm not fakin
I wanna be makin you scream like a car alarm
your fingers raking me like leaves on an autumn lawn
All up in my spaghetti like your parmesan
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
I'm just a tiger and I'm lookin for a tigress.
My guess is that you might bless,
me with your holy water just like you were a pope baby.
You got me hangin from a rope lady,
just like a tire swing lovin you is tiring.
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
I've been to Prague, I've been to Iraq
In search of booty and I never came back.
Where you from? you must be Japanese-Jamaican
'cause your panties are making me hot and I'm not fakin
I wanna be makin you scream like a car alarm
your fingers raking me like leaves on an autumn lawn
All up in my spaghetti like your parmesan
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
Hoold hold let me catch my b-b-b-b-b-b-reath
You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry me children, exit the building
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
You can do me up like Bruce Springsteen, ask the swim team, pass the string beans.
Let me love you like you are the shit girl
you are the shit girl x2
Lyrics submitted by CompanyCalls
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"I've been to Prague, I've been to Iraq Been to Djibouti, and I never came back"
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