"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.
Do you miss walking down Geary St. with your mom,
Going to buy some Upper Playground T-shirts?
We don’t even get street cred for wearing that shit no more.
Taking your morning piss at the MUNI bus stop
Because your roommate’s passed out in the shower again
Do you sit tonguing the root pulled fresh
To make room for your new acrylic front tooth,
Wishing you could be at a third grade barbeque?
Do you get hives from sporting short-shorts in unkempt grass,
Feel bad about missing your last french class
Or key every car with a personalized license plate?
Well I do
Another calcium deposit,
Another sign that I should take care of myself (myself)
I'll be honest man,
My dreams ain’t what they used to be
So after we have practice, I'll go sit up in the attic
And rehearse the line I've claimed as mine:
"Life is over when we say it is"
Going to buy some Upper Playground T-shirts?
We don’t even get street cred for wearing that shit no more.
Taking your morning piss at the MUNI bus stop
Because your roommate’s passed out in the shower again
Do you sit tonguing the root pulled fresh
To make room for your new acrylic front tooth,
Wishing you could be at a third grade barbeque?
Do you get hives from sporting short-shorts in unkempt grass,
Feel bad about missing your last french class
Or key every car with a personalized license plate?
Well I do
Another calcium deposit,
Another sign that I should take care of myself (myself)
I'll be honest man,
My dreams ain’t what they used to be
So after we have practice, I'll go sit up in the attic
And rehearse the line I've claimed as mine:
"Life is over when we say it is"
Lyrics submitted by AllChokedUp
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Do you miss walking down Geary St. with your mom, going to buy some Upper Playground T-shirts? We don’t even get street cred for wearing that shit no more. Taking your morning piss at the MUNI bus stop because your roommate’s passed out in the shower again.
Do you sit tonguing the root pulled fresh to make room for your new acrylic front tooth, wishing you could be at a third grade barbeque? Do you get hives from sporting short-shorts in unkempt grass, feel bad about missing your last french class or key every car with a personalized license plate?
Well I do.
Another calcium deposit, another sign that I should take care of myself. I'll be honest man, my dreams ain’t what they used to be. So after we have practice, I'll go sit up in the attic and rehearse the line I've claimed as mine: "Life is over when we say it is."
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