"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.
Bouncer:
R... R... How do you spell it? Rah-ciste?
Nope, I'm sorry, your name is not on the list.
Bodyguard:
Step aside! Step Aside!
Caroline Polachek:
No-no-no, it's cool. They're with me.
I spotted you in Sean John
At the Spring and Summer sample sale
The overstock of oversize made you look so thin and pale
Where has we met before?
Balenciaga show?
Backstage in Paris or face-hunting in Milan, oooh let's go
Kool-A.D.:
I'm at the fashion party
I'm wearing fashion clothes
I'm putting fashionable powders up inside my nose
Looking at these fashion friends
Tryin' to make them fashion ends
Tryin' to touch that fashion paper
Like they was fashion pens
I'm like a fountain pen
I look like mountain man
But I'm not a mountain man
I'm a fucking mountain, man
I fuck with fashion trends
My trends are fashion forward
Two dollar jeans and Gucci visors from the dollar store
Heems:
Garbage bags, 'Lahn-vahn'
Why you call it 'Lanvin'?
People very educated out here in the Hamptons
Yes I'm tan, and Taliban chic
Shorty said I look like a Taliban freak
Mr. Tally Man told me I'm bananas last week
I'm Heems, working on a line with Khalif
Let's freak
Highest thread counts on my sheet
Ain't I seen you at that fashion party last week?
I'm at a fashion party
I'm wear-ing fashion clothes
I'm wearing fashion fabrics everyone in fashion knows (cotton!)
I'm smoking ganja, weed
(But dog, what about the Janjaweed?)
Yo the Pope wear Prada, the devil wear Prada
I can't be bothered, I'm tryin to holla!
Caroline:
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink and acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
Kool A.D.:
Next is bed and breakfast
Carmel, Michel Foucault, Michelle ma belle
Yup, Western medicine
Lobster steak and venison
Wafer thin crackers, famous actors
Duck confit, Pinot Grigio
Hummus with miso, scallopicio
So freaky-deaky, so fashion
Caroline:
I'll take a five zero CK one
And make a two three sport
Tell the interns to shut the Dior
Studded, beaded, slip-on flats
With high-top low-rise ankle wraps
Mulberry, periwinkle, beige crew
Eggplant, mustard, midnight blue
Tie-dye laced with leather trim
Musky sport cologne for him
Caroline:
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
(Fashion party)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
(She's a model and she's looking good
Baby, he's a model and she's looking good)
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink and acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
(Fashion party)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
Kool A.D.:
Barbizon, Louis Vitton
Tight Salons, André Breton
Heems is there, I don't care
I'll pull down your underwear
Caroline:
I'll show them acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
R... R... How do you spell it? Rah-ciste?
Nope, I'm sorry, your name is not on the list.
Bodyguard:
Step aside! Step Aside!
Caroline Polachek:
No-no-no, it's cool. They're with me.
I spotted you in Sean John
At the Spring and Summer sample sale
The overstock of oversize made you look so thin and pale
Where has we met before?
Balenciaga show?
Backstage in Paris or face-hunting in Milan, oooh let's go
Kool-A.D.:
I'm at the fashion party
I'm wearing fashion clothes
I'm putting fashionable powders up inside my nose
Looking at these fashion friends
Tryin' to make them fashion ends
Tryin' to touch that fashion paper
Like they was fashion pens
I'm like a fountain pen
I look like mountain man
But I'm not a mountain man
I'm a fucking mountain, man
I fuck with fashion trends
My trends are fashion forward
Two dollar jeans and Gucci visors from the dollar store
Heems:
Garbage bags, 'Lahn-vahn'
Why you call it 'Lanvin'?
People very educated out here in the Hamptons
Yes I'm tan, and Taliban chic
Shorty said I look like a Taliban freak
Mr. Tally Man told me I'm bananas last week
I'm Heems, working on a line with Khalif
Let's freak
Highest thread counts on my sheet
Ain't I seen you at that fashion party last week?
I'm at a fashion party
I'm wear-ing fashion clothes
I'm wearing fashion fabrics everyone in fashion knows (cotton!)
I'm smoking ganja, weed
(But dog, what about the Janjaweed?)
Yo the Pope wear Prada, the devil wear Prada
I can't be bothered, I'm tryin to holla!
Caroline:
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink and acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
Kool A.D.:
Next is bed and breakfast
Carmel, Michel Foucault, Michelle ma belle
Yup, Western medicine
Lobster steak and venison
Wafer thin crackers, famous actors
Duck confit, Pinot Grigio
Hummus with miso, scallopicio
So freaky-deaky, so fashion
Caroline:
I'll take a five zero CK one
And make a two three sport
Tell the interns to shut the Dior
Studded, beaded, slip-on flats
With high-top low-rise ankle wraps
Mulberry, periwinkle, beige crew
Eggplant, mustard, midnight blue
Tie-dye laced with leather trim
Musky sport cologne for him
Caroline:
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
(Fashion party)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
(She's a model and she's looking good
Baby, he's a model and she's looking good)
I see London, I see France
Where'd you get yourself those pants?
I can't tell if you want to hit me or if you want to dance
Hot pink and acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
(Fashion party)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
Kool A.D.:
Barbizon, Louis Vitton
Tight Salons, André Breton
Heems is there, I don't care
I'll pull down your underwear
Caroline:
I'll show them acid green
All dressed up like Halloween
Can't tell you if I know you from the catalogue or magazine
(She's a model and she's looking good)
I got the cameras flashin',
Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion
Lyrics submitted by PinkSalmon
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Fixed, thanks! By the time these lyrics are perfect I'm sure I'll know more about fashion houses than I ever needed to.