"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.
Okay, this is an intellectual, idealistic, impractical, unrealistic, yet pessimistic article
Okay, you fucking cunts
What's all the hype about?
The topic of conversation
Fools can't keep their boot lips shut, speaking in persuasion
The Asian girls don't like me much 'cause my tongue can't go to the side
If your woman said she ain't been here, she probably lied
Oh, and so not to get off topic, I've been hearin' loads of shit
About some scumbag white trash piece of dick actin' like he knows this
Actin' like he don't know I show his girlfriend's tits on the Internet
[chuckles] I did
Ain't you got nothing better to do?
Wait, nevermind, here's your sign, any kind, got the time, wanna see why I'm fly unlike you?
I don't see the point to be actin' like a wiener fool (x2)
Middle aged, middle school, grabbin' your wiener, fool
Pissin in the pool
Tryin these experimental simple greens
Just to be cool, breakin' all the rules, rules, rules
Fools gotta get big, gotta get used, shootin' up spoon residue with Blue Clues, whose clues? Your clues?
My clues? My crew's clues? Blacks? Jews? White dudes? Huey Lewis and the News, dude
Ain't you got nothing better to do?
Wait, nevermind, here's your sign, any kind, got the time, wanna see why I'm fly unlike you?
Got that shit talking, shit walking, cock blocking, pill popping
Sorry excuse for a human
Stalking your fucking hiding girlfriend in the morning
[chuckles] Good morning
So spend less time hating
Get that dude participating to shove it up his ass
Caught on webcam masturbating
4 in the morning and he's still kinda draining
The sap from his skull hardly saying anything, anything at all
Okay, you fucking cunts
What's all the hype about?
The topic of conversation
Fools can't keep their boot lips shut, speaking in persuasion
The Asian girls don't like me much 'cause my tongue can't go to the side
If your woman said she ain't been here, she probably lied
Oh, and so not to get off topic, I've been hearin' loads of shit
About some scumbag white trash piece of dick actin' like he knows this
Actin' like he don't know I show his girlfriend's tits on the Internet
[chuckles] I did
Ain't you got nothing better to do?
Wait, nevermind, here's your sign, any kind, got the time, wanna see why I'm fly unlike you?
I don't see the point to be actin' like a wiener fool (x2)
Middle aged, middle school, grabbin' your wiener, fool
Pissin in the pool
Tryin these experimental simple greens
Just to be cool, breakin' all the rules, rules, rules
Fools gotta get big, gotta get used, shootin' up spoon residue with Blue Clues, whose clues? Your clues?
My clues? My crew's clues? Blacks? Jews? White dudes? Huey Lewis and the News, dude
Ain't you got nothing better to do?
Wait, nevermind, here's your sign, any kind, got the time, wanna see why I'm fly unlike you?
Got that shit talking, shit walking, cock blocking, pill popping
Sorry excuse for a human
Stalking your fucking hiding girlfriend in the morning
[chuckles] Good morning
So spend less time hating
Get that dude participating to shove it up his ass
Caught on webcam masturbating
4 in the morning and he's still kinda draining
The sap from his skull hardly saying anything, anything at all
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