"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.
Caught you
Sniffing my boxers
Who the fuck does that
At Red Lobster?
Creepy
Like when Tom Cruise laughs
That's how your finger
Felt in my ass
I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
The way
Your kisses tasted
Skeeve me the hell out
Like shitting naked
Why would
I wanna stay friends?
Rather get raped by
Clowns again
I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
I'm gonna go to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
Sniffing my boxers
Who the fuck does that
At Red Lobster?
Creepy
Like when Tom Cruise laughs
That's how your finger
Felt in my ass
I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
The way
Your kisses tasted
Skeeve me the hell out
Like shitting naked
Why would
I wanna stay friends?
Rather get raped by
Clowns again
I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
I'm gonna go to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
Lyrics submitted by EvilDEAD326
Altogether Ooky Lyrics as written by James M. Franks
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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dunno if you guys know this, but bloodhound gang's drummer is welsh. due to the fact he has a terminal illness, the band recorded a version of the song in welsh - to be played at his funeral.
here are the lyrics to the welsh version (they're more or less the same, except obviously in welsh):
Eu dal chi Arogli fy bocswyr Pwy y fuck gwneud hynny Ar Cimwch Coch? Ymgripiad fi Fel pan Tom Cruise chwerthin Dyna sut mae eich bys Yn teimlo yn fy nhin
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Y ffordd Eich cusanau blasu Skeeve 'm' r annwfn allan Fel shitting noeth Pam y byddai Yr wyf eisiau aros yn ffrindiau? Yn hytrach yn cael eu treisio gan Clowniau eto
Im 'gonna mynd at eich tÅ· ar gefn ceffyl gyda Mae criw o pentrefwyr cario ffaglau Mae'r rhan fwyaf ohonynt ddim yn ei hoffi anghenfilod fel chi, merch
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