"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.
Chorus:1x
They told me
I'm straight edge nuffin
Keeps me sharp as a straight blade
Influence, they tryna blaze somethin..But I Am that influence
I'm tryna raise
To create.
They say I'm too brave
Tryna throw temptation. But I ain't David Ruffin Or Craig
So what you talkin
Verse:1
Always to keep a focus
Without the thicker focals
To have super pupils, dilate the blurr with the hocus pocus
this a holy opus nun'll notice bewitched twitch rem dreams of a floating lotus
you see ya lids are loafers
mine as high as high tops and some higher waters I be as high as you sober
wouldn't know it least eye dropped to your seclera so you can see clearer than both of us
Navigated through hogwash then I graduated from Hogwarts a schooler
Summa Cum Laude of the potter,
not a potter of plant to grow a chiefer Might of dropped a seed to grow a tree up
You might have seen me
Built the bridge to Taribitha where the leaves whispered that I'm a wizard
And some'll soon follow me to the vineyard
where trees wove crowns for me, made me king of.
Chorus1x
Verse:2
Not determined to be a deter'er
Not concurring to being the Führer
Non preacher, non saint non Baptist or a non believer, just an observer of procedure, handed down from the highest hands in the meeting
like look, let's make this an instrument to be acceptable,
they'll become susceptible
and start searching for a higher high
give'em this one, make it perpetual
C circle the scientist at NASA they refer to us as data, non human, just some patterns and some habits, while they make habitable environments on Saturn.
They made it fashionable to be non-applicable, made it palatable as a plate of food, they betting on ya to be unreliable, irresponsible, irreversibly cloned and heardable
Chorus1x
Verse:3
I do it on purpose
Just to defeat the purpose, of the person at the height of the hierarchy.
On the surface
introduce a little anarchy, not a nervous. Make it a versus
Don't be a worthless passerby don't get too high, and let the straight edge cut ya. Don't get too high and let the straight edge cut ya.
They told me
I'm straight edge nuffin
Keeps me sharp as a straight blade
Influence, they tryna blaze somethin..But I Am that influence
I'm tryna raise
To create.
They say I'm too brave
Tryna throw temptation. But I ain't David Ruffin Or Craig
So what you talkin
Verse:1
Always to keep a focus
Without the thicker focals
To have super pupils, dilate the blurr with the hocus pocus
this a holy opus nun'll notice bewitched twitch rem dreams of a floating lotus
you see ya lids are loafers
mine as high as high tops and some higher waters I be as high as you sober
wouldn't know it least eye dropped to your seclera so you can see clearer than both of us
Navigated through hogwash then I graduated from Hogwarts a schooler
Summa Cum Laude of the potter,
not a potter of plant to grow a chiefer Might of dropped a seed to grow a tree up
You might have seen me
Built the bridge to Taribitha where the leaves whispered that I'm a wizard
And some'll soon follow me to the vineyard
where trees wove crowns for me, made me king of.
Chorus1x
Verse:2
Not determined to be a deter'er
Not concurring to being the Führer
Non preacher, non saint non Baptist or a non believer, just an observer of procedure, handed down from the highest hands in the meeting
like look, let's make this an instrument to be acceptable,
they'll become susceptible
and start searching for a higher high
give'em this one, make it perpetual
C circle the scientist at NASA they refer to us as data, non human, just some patterns and some habits, while they make habitable environments on Saturn.
They made it fashionable to be non-applicable, made it palatable as a plate of food, they betting on ya to be unreliable, irresponsible, irreversibly cloned and heardable
Chorus1x
Verse:3
I do it on purpose
Just to defeat the purpose, of the person at the height of the hierarchy.
On the surface
introduce a little anarchy, not a nervous. Make it a versus
Don't be a worthless passerby don't get too high, and let the straight edge cut ya. Don't get too high and let the straight edge cut ya.
Lyrics submitted by Since84
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