"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.
You try to multiply your speed by time to get your distance
But you don’t see the wood for the trees
An experiment with existence
Is showing up anomalies
You see the day dissolve into the morrow
And the slow growing of your second skin
Adrenaline begins in the marrow
And then intoxicates your oxygen
Count one to a hundred and then you are ready to go
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
I’m not the light outside of the window
I’m not a damsel in distress
I’m not the gold at the end of the rainbow
And I am not a lost princess
Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer
Are you the one I build my world around
Or are we wrapped in black paranoia
Ready to attack and take each other down
Exactly like Alice in Wonderland now when we grow
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have a savage energy today
Oh my dear it’s dark in the dungeon
This is where my demons dwell
A sign says beware of the dragon
But you don’t attend it very well
Who was it who said that it’s better the devil you know
Oh ain’t it so
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have a savage energy today
But you don’t see the wood for the trees
An experiment with existence
Is showing up anomalies
You see the day dissolve into the morrow
And the slow growing of your second skin
Adrenaline begins in the marrow
And then intoxicates your oxygen
Count one to a hundred and then you are ready to go
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
I’m not the light outside of the window
I’m not a damsel in distress
I’m not the gold at the end of the rainbow
And I am not a lost princess
Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer
Are you the one I build my world around
Or are we wrapped in black paranoia
Ready to attack and take each other down
Exactly like Alice in Wonderland now when we grow
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have a savage energy today
Oh my dear it’s dark in the dungeon
This is where my demons dwell
A sign says beware of the dragon
But you don’t attend it very well
Who was it who said that it’s better the devil you know
Oh ain’t it so
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have a savage energy today
Lyrics submitted by crow_heart
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