"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.
Stab you with scissors and let's hold hands
Blew out my birthday candles wished that you were dead
Slice you to ribbons - lay next to me
Let's give each other lobotomies
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
Body bag, body bag, body bag, body bag
To be ourselves, we have to destroy ourselves.. (x2)
Pretend I love you for another year
Starve myself so I'll fucking disappear
Your red-dipped fingers look like strawberries
But these gashes look like self-injuries
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
Body bag, body bag, body bag, body bag
Depression, my new obsession... home sweet home
Self-mutilation is like a sick art show (x3)
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
To be ourselves, we have to destroy ourselves..
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
Blew out my birthday candles wished that you were dead
Slice you to ribbons - lay next to me
Let's give each other lobotomies
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
Body bag, body bag, body bag, body bag
To be ourselves, we have to destroy ourselves.. (x2)
Pretend I love you for another year
Starve myself so I'll fucking disappear
Your red-dipped fingers look like strawberries
But these gashes look like self-injuries
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
Body bag, body bag, body bag, body bag
Depression, my new obsession... home sweet home
Self-mutilation is like a sick art show (x3)
Slit your throat & zip you up
I won't fuck up your pretty makeup
Tell your friends, try not to brag
To be ourselves, we have to destroy ourselves..
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
You're sleeping in a Louis Vuitton body bag
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