"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.
Call me a fake sir
You can call me a fraud
You can spit on my french knickers
You can call me a whore
If you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that theres
No love lost
There
'No sir. there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh just wander in
There's no love lost
Finger my pigtails as you
Deal me some cards
As you tell me what the sunset looks like
From your brothers backyard
But you see
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I am living in London now
Living in London
So
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that there's
No love lost
There
"No sir there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Call me your princess as you
Do me a line
As your searching for my savior
At the bottom of a packet of tobacco
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I am living in London now
Living in London
So
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that there's
No love lost
There
"No sir there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
You see
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I'm living in London now
Living in London town
You can call me a fraud
You can spit on my french knickers
You can call me a whore
If you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that theres
No love lost
There
'No sir. there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh just wander in
There's no love lost
Finger my pigtails as you
Deal me some cards
As you tell me what the sunset looks like
From your brothers backyard
But you see
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I am living in London now
Living in London
So
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that there's
No love lost
There
"No sir there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Call me your princess as you
Do me a line
As your searching for my savior
At the bottom of a packet of tobacco
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I am living in London now
Living in London
So
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that you
Roll in, roll out, roll up to the bunny club
You'll have the
Ride of your life underneath these
Pink fluorescent lights
And I hope that there's
No love lost
There
"No sir there is no love left in here"
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
Knots in her hair
And all lines
All lines are stripped bare
Just oh. just wander in
There's no love lost
You see
With me they take one look and they run
I've got a dog and a gun
And I'm living in London now
Living in London town
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