"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.
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I came to the land of the dinosaurs
And i parked my time machine
Behind the biggest tree that i could see
I walked and i walked
Until my feet got sore
I set up my small tent
And i camped on the floor
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
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I went to check out the dinosaurs
And i saw a terradactyl on a volcano
And this is what he said when he saw me and
Uh oh oh oh oh
Uh oh oh oh
Uh oh oh Uh oh
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
I came to the land of the dinosaurs
And i parked my time machine
Behind the biggest tree that i could see
I walked and i walked
Until my feet got sore
I set up my small tent
And i camped on the floor
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
1 2 3 4
I went to check out the dinosaurs
And i saw a terradactyl on a volcano
And this is what he said when he saw me and
Uh oh oh oh oh
Uh oh oh oh
Uh oh oh Uh oh
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
(Everybody knows that)
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
Dinosaurs go rawr
Lyrics submitted by ReeTARD_x
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