"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.
I fancy the hip rock 'n' roll sinister
I wanna be fucked and then rolled over
Cause I'm an independent woman of the 21st century
No time for knits, I want sex and debauchery
I read glamor and the guardian
I like flowers & I'm hardy & I take cocaine
I don't give a fuck about her I want your name
I can get fucked like the best of men
Like the best of men Like the worst of pain
Inflicted on another young girl again
Impressed by another guitar hero
He's a top score & you're a zero
You're out of your league
There ain't no rubber on the tracks it's gravel
You fall hard, cut quick and it's an STD, a cut knee
You're a side of stage grasp, a laugh
An after show party in a bath
Fucked and expected to be fucked
A gasp from an uninformed intruder
The crowd go wild and things get ruder
They're already out of hand and there's no-one here
To take your hand. It's a cold shower and a scramble
For a dirty pair of knicker, don't get yours mixed up with hers
Now get out of bed, get out of bed, get out get out get get out of bed
Get up, get down & get undressed! Cause that's what you
Do best, strip, strip strip n shag, fuck get fucked 'n drag,
And be impressed, by the better sex, take a piece of raw
Vegetable and hold it to your breast and say you stood
For nothing. You were just a hole that lacked passion,
Another undignified product of society. That girl
Should have been a mansion.
I wanna be fucked and then rolled over
Cause I'm an independent woman of the 21st century
No time for knits, I want sex and debauchery
I read glamor and the guardian
I like flowers & I'm hardy & I take cocaine
I don't give a fuck about her I want your name
I can get fucked like the best of men
Like the best of men Like the worst of pain
Inflicted on another young girl again
Impressed by another guitar hero
He's a top score & you're a zero
You're out of your league
There ain't no rubber on the tracks it's gravel
You fall hard, cut quick and it's an STD, a cut knee
You're a side of stage grasp, a laugh
An after show party in a bath
Fucked and expected to be fucked
A gasp from an uninformed intruder
The crowd go wild and things get ruder
They're already out of hand and there's no-one here
To take your hand. It's a cold shower and a scramble
For a dirty pair of knicker, don't get yours mixed up with hers
Now get out of bed, get out of bed, get out get out get get out of bed
Get up, get down & get undressed! Cause that's what you
Do best, strip, strip strip n shag, fuck get fucked 'n drag,
And be impressed, by the better sex, take a piece of raw
Vegetable and hold it to your breast and say you stood
For nothing. You were just a hole that lacked passion,
Another undignified product of society. That girl
Should have been a mansion.
Lyrics submitted by TeenQueenOfDeath, edited by hersoftestsoul
Mansion Song Lyrics as written by Kate Marie Nash
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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'No time for knits, I want sex and debauchery'
isn't it 'no time for nits, I want sex and abortuary'
might be wrong but oh well :)