"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.
Sometimes I wake up in my bed
And I don't know where I've been
Heart tells me a trip to cloud nine
Headache says that things just ain't fine
Wake up in the valley of dolls
And walls surrounding me
Blond ambitions they've been offering
Mother's little yellow helpers
Helpers, helpers, helpers
Country club martini crew
Extra olives just won't do
Valium makes your soul get higher
And enables fake gunfire
Queen bees lose to wasps
Ritalin filled debutante
When you don't like what you see
Hiding's easy in a SUV
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
ADD, yeah
ADD, yeah
SUV, yeah
SUV, yeah
D-D-DA
Ooh, I gotta call my friend
Wait a minute, what I say I gotta do again?
Minute to minute, I feel like I'm in
The movie memento but I don't have a pen
Wait a minute, hey, hey
This the type of beat that make the ghetto girls play
Take a hit of haze, it's in the drain
You wish you seen P, man, you know she couldn't hate
That ghetto P and that ghetto cash
My ghetto eyes on her ghetto ass
You probably wanna know what planet we on
Can't help if I see everything in neon
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
I know they think that we have lost it
My mom keep telling me that I should stop it
See what I like and I'm gon' cop it
You hit a new height, shit, I'm gon' top it
With the ADD makes a crazy me
And they can't see, that's why they blame me
Tell the women hi, I dip and dive
I skip and fly, I'm a different guy
When I open up my eyes sometimes
I don't know where I've been
Heart tells me a trip to cloud nine
Headache says that things just ain't fine
Driving in the SUV
ADD takes over me
Cruise control, reins full power
So the dolls can play with nose powder
Pull up to another dinner party
Hosted by Malibu Barbie
Pretty in pink
Princesses, candy floss, fresh bushes
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
Skateboard
Mirwais
ADD, ADD
Ed Banger
SUV, SUV
Busy P
ADD, ADD
Uffie
SUV, SUV
ADD, ADD
SUV, SUV
Uffie
And I don't know where I've been
Heart tells me a trip to cloud nine
Headache says that things just ain't fine
Wake up in the valley of dolls
And walls surrounding me
Blond ambitions they've been offering
Mother's little yellow helpers
Helpers, helpers, helpers
Country club martini crew
Extra olives just won't do
Valium makes your soul get higher
And enables fake gunfire
Queen bees lose to wasps
Ritalin filled debutante
When you don't like what you see
Hiding's easy in a SUV
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
ADD, yeah
ADD, yeah
SUV, yeah
SUV, yeah
D-D-DA
Ooh, I gotta call my friend
Wait a minute, what I say I gotta do again?
Minute to minute, I feel like I'm in
The movie memento but I don't have a pen
Wait a minute, hey, hey
This the type of beat that make the ghetto girls play
Take a hit of haze, it's in the drain
You wish you seen P, man, you know she couldn't hate
That ghetto P and that ghetto cash
My ghetto eyes on her ghetto ass
You probably wanna know what planet we on
Can't help if I see everything in neon
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
I know they think that we have lost it
My mom keep telling me that I should stop it
See what I like and I'm gon' cop it
You hit a new height, shit, I'm gon' top it
With the ADD makes a crazy me
And they can't see, that's why they blame me
Tell the women hi, I dip and dive
I skip and fly, I'm a different guy
When I open up my eyes sometimes
I don't know where I've been
Heart tells me a trip to cloud nine
Headache says that things just ain't fine
Driving in the SUV
ADD takes over me
Cruise control, reins full power
So the dolls can play with nose powder
Pull up to another dinner party
Hosted by Malibu Barbie
Pretty in pink
Princesses, candy floss, fresh bushes
Schizophrenic
Pathogenic
Psychogenic
Hallucinogenic
Photogenic
I been taking intelligent
Manic depressive
Aggressive
Psycho wards are so possessive
Attention deficit disorder
Hand-held cassette recorder
Skateboard
Mirwais
ADD, ADD
Ed Banger
SUV, SUV
Busy P
ADD, ADD
Uffie
SUV, SUV
ADD, ADD
SUV, SUV
Uffie
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