"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.
Pat Robertson once said,
"It's a long downward slide
That'll lead to legalizing sex with ducks
If two men can stand side by side"
God, I hope he's right
'Cause if gay marriage becomes lawful
Gonna find myself a duck
And legally do
Something awful (awful, awful)
Ducks, sex with ducks
We'll do it in the rain
Ducks, yeah, ducks
Got those wet feet on my brain
We'll find a pond, we'll find a puddle
Put your beak in mine and we'll cuddle
It's a feeling I can't name
When sex with ducks and gay marriage
Are one and the same
Gonna goose that goose
Gonna quack that swan
Gonna rubber my duckie all night long
Gonna whack that Mallard
Until its feathers plume
Gonna Huey Dewey Louie all over the room
Scrooge McDuck, gonna give it to you
Dive into your gold until you say
DuckTales, whoo hoo
Ducks, sex with ducks
We'll do it in the rain
Ducks, yeah, ducks
Those feathered bodies are insane
We'll find a pond, we'll find a puddle
I'll be the wind beneath your wings and we'll cuddle
It's a feeling I can't name
When sex with ducks and gay marriage
Are one and the same
One and the same
One and the same
"It's a long downward slide
That'll lead to legalizing sex with ducks
If two men can stand side by side"
God, I hope he's right
'Cause if gay marriage becomes lawful
Gonna find myself a duck
And legally do
Something awful (awful, awful)
Ducks, sex with ducks
We'll do it in the rain
Ducks, yeah, ducks
Got those wet feet on my brain
We'll find a pond, we'll find a puddle
Put your beak in mine and we'll cuddle
It's a feeling I can't name
When sex with ducks and gay marriage
Are one and the same
Gonna goose that goose
Gonna quack that swan
Gonna rubber my duckie all night long
Gonna whack that Mallard
Until its feathers plume
Gonna Huey Dewey Louie all over the room
Scrooge McDuck, gonna give it to you
Dive into your gold until you say
DuckTales, whoo hoo
Ducks, sex with ducks
We'll do it in the rain
Ducks, yeah, ducks
Those feathered bodies are insane
We'll find a pond, we'll find a puddle
I'll be the wind beneath your wings and we'll cuddle
It's a feeling I can't name
When sex with ducks and gay marriage
Are one and the same
One and the same
One and the same
Lyrics submitted by BleedorBreathe
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