"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.
God damn it’s gonna rain
I only brought my socks
The night might hide my shame
But she won’t dry my bones
The spell that brought me here
Dissipated when the weather turned
Yeah sure, Satan rules but
that doesn’t mean I can’t be practical.
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
You need Satan more than he needs you
You need Satan more than he needs you
God damn it, what’s the time?
The babysitter needs a lift by nine
What’s with that fucking kid?
Now who will wax my crucifix?
My girlfriend brought me here
I gotta get her on the telephone
Clean up, fetch the goat
Every summer he can travel in the boot
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
You need Satan more than he needs you
You need Satan more than he needs you
It doesn’t look like a man
It doesn’t talk like a man
But does it fuck like a man
Does it, does it fuck like a man?
It doesn’t smell like a man
It doesn’t taste like a man
But does it fuck like a man
Does it, does it fuck like a man?
I only brought my socks
The night might hide my shame
But she won’t dry my bones
The spell that brought me here
Dissipated when the weather turned
Yeah sure, Satan rules but
that doesn’t mean I can’t be practical.
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
You need Satan more than he needs you
You need Satan more than he needs you
God damn it, what’s the time?
The babysitter needs a lift by nine
What’s with that fucking kid?
Now who will wax my crucifix?
My girlfriend brought me here
I gotta get her on the telephone
Clean up, fetch the goat
Every summer he can travel in the boot
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?
You need Satan more than he needs you
You need Satan more than he needs you
It doesn’t look like a man
It doesn’t talk like a man
But does it fuck like a man
Does it, does it fuck like a man?
It doesn’t smell like a man
It doesn’t taste like a man
But does it fuck like a man
Does it, does it fuck like a man?
Lyrics submitted by loklan
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haha I thought it said "but she won't dry my balls"!