"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.
Random shots, you talk in hate
Apathy in your brain
Aggression all so vain
Lose your cool and innovate
Blind man's heroin they sell
Testosterone, I think
Your insular gate
Of insubstantial faith
Inordinate grate in your brain
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Boasting the scores you made last night
Just couldn't get it up
All alone in the tub
And she was no Jenna J.
I think you were with your friends
Sharing DNA
Your insular gate
Of insubstantial faith
Inordinate grate in your brain
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Brain…
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
So go insane
I just couldn't care less what you gain
So lose your cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Apathy in your brain
Aggression all so vain
Lose your cool and innovate
Blind man's heroin they sell
Testosterone, I think
Your insular gate
Of insubstantial faith
Inordinate grate in your brain
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Boasting the scores you made last night
Just couldn't get it up
All alone in the tub
And she was no Jenna J.
I think you were with your friends
Sharing DNA
Your insular gate
Of insubstantial faith
Inordinate grate in your brain
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Brain…
Fermentation insane
Knelt before your Lord, he makes you feign
So lose you cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
So go insane
I just couldn't care less what you gain
So lose your cool
You're just another fool of your fever pitch
Lyrics submitted by Aryal
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