"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.
In the tumbling day light
a fever of your own
Crawl out from your teenage grave yard
Run the rattlinG bones
Rough enough I pretend to like it
Turn this girl into gold..
Bring it up and i'll completely deny it
Spin my words into ghosts
Arms are heavy
Scars on every one from teenage chains
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
Dead honey, dead honey
dead honey, your dead honey
Holy vicoden Queen's ascending, chokinG wives into sleep
frame my integrity or what's left in me
The spaces in between....
I'm a slave to myself uncertain.
runs in the family
Dead Honey and your happy ending
The beat will bury me
Are you ready
Sick and steady
Please just let me go
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
dead honey, dead honey
dead honey, your dead honey
dead honey, dead honey
I can believe and I can pretend
Having these thoughts again and again
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
They're lying
They like it
They're lying
They like it
They're lying
They're lying
a fever of your own
Crawl out from your teenage grave yard
Run the rattlinG bones
Rough enough I pretend to like it
Turn this girl into gold..
Bring it up and i'll completely deny it
Spin my words into ghosts
Arms are heavy
Scars on every one from teenage chains
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
Dead honey, dead honey
dead honey, your dead honey
Holy vicoden Queen's ascending, chokinG wives into sleep
frame my integrity or what's left in me
The spaces in between....
I'm a slave to myself uncertain.
runs in the family
Dead Honey and your happy ending
The beat will bury me
Are you ready
Sick and steady
Please just let me go
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
dead honey, dead honey
dead honey, your dead honey
dead honey, dead honey
I can believe and I can pretend
Having these thoughts again and again
I don't think I'll like it
don't think I want it all
I don't think I'll find it
don't think I need it all
it hits right here when it fits right there
it's no good but the kids don't care
They like it
They're lying
They like it
They're lying
They like it
They're lying
They're lying
Lyrics submitted by candycrime
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I think thatthis song is about, teenagers dreaming of bad stuff like the kind of stuff in horror movies. And if people ask them if they like it, they lie and say they don;t, when they actually do. They're also trying to like block out the thoughts but they keep coming back and they can't help it. They like it in their head, but they don't think they will like it if it actually happened.. Also, WOW , Im the third to comment, I cant believe that. I've loved this song since the first time I heard it.