"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 know ya stole it
Now you're gonna walk it around
Everybody knows ya stole it
Now you're gonna walk it around
Feeling like a big house
Caught on fire, rippin' me down
And I'm, I'm in a broken piper now
Feelin' like hippie
Ya stick like a movie screen
Says he's comin' back
That boy's just sugar and cream
Everybody's runnin' to come get some
Ya say my, oh my
What have I become?
Well it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
I know your greasy smile
You can just walk it around
My family knows your greasy smile
You can just walk it around
Ma and Pa picked up the phone
Papa helped me put it back down
Oh, put it down
You'd be more offended
It was so hard to afford
Man took it all
Boy says, well
You will go far
Takin' all his bread and butter
Everybody said
My, oh my
What got in your head?
Oh, it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
I went to your house
Sweet Maybellene
You did a deed that I'd never seen
I will never go that way again, no
I have seen
The end of ends
And it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
Yeah
You are just
A pig I fed with pearls
Now you're gonna walk it around
Everybody knows ya stole it
Now you're gonna walk it around
Feeling like a big house
Caught on fire, rippin' me down
And I'm, I'm in a broken piper now
Feelin' like hippie
Ya stick like a movie screen
Says he's comin' back
That boy's just sugar and cream
Everybody's runnin' to come get some
Ya say my, oh my
What have I become?
Well it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
I know your greasy smile
You can just walk it around
My family knows your greasy smile
You can just walk it around
Ma and Pa picked up the phone
Papa helped me put it back down
Oh, put it down
You'd be more offended
It was so hard to afford
Man took it all
Boy says, well
You will go far
Takin' all his bread and butter
Everybody said
My, oh my
What got in your head?
Oh, it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
I went to your house
Sweet Maybellene
You did a deed that I'd never seen
I will never go that way again, no
I have seen
The end of ends
And it's not that boy
It's not his brother
It's just me
Got no other
You made a friend
Rather talk than fight
Open my mouth
And I'll shut your mouth
Horrible words
Gonna come around
You
Are just a pig
I fed with pearls
Yeah
You are just
A pig I fed with pearls
Lyrics submitted by a_melancholy_soul
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