"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.
Well I ain't gonna pee pee in no cup
Miss Nancy Reagan's gonna drink it up
Said yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no no
Well go ahead and fire me from my job
There's one little think you ain't gonna rob
That's my freedom, and my liberty
On that last line, play this tab:
Well I ain't gonna piss in no jar
Them evil peckerheads they done gone too far
I wouldn't pee in their mouths if they were dying of thirst
Yeah we got to get rid of this evil curse
I'm alive and I'm fighting this jive
(As first verse)
Everybody should go to Washington
We can have ourselves a little fun
You know, they want our piss, I think we ought to give it to them
Surround the White House with a urinary moat
So Ronnie and Nancy will have to float on a boat
Get across the stinky, steaming yellow pee pee sea, oh
Chorus
You know Thomas Jefferson is gonna be mighty pissed
When he finds out about this, I said
Come back from the dead, Tom, sock 'em in the head
Why is everybody so afraid of drugs
Man they afraid of what the drugs gonna do to us
Well I ain't gonna pee pee in no cup
Miss Nancy Reagan's gonna drink it up
Said yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no no
Well go ahead and throw me in jail
Ram hot spikes up my tail
But you're not gonna get a drop of no peepee out of me
I ain't gonna piss in no jar
You know Foghorn Leghorn wouldn't pee in no jar. You know Patrick Henry
didn't "Give
me liberty or give me a urine sample" now did he? Aw we sure enough
rockin' out, Skid.
Huey Long wouldn't piss in no jar! What's gonna be next, the doo doo
police? (Fade out)
Miss Nancy Reagan's gonna drink it up
Said yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no no
Well go ahead and fire me from my job
There's one little think you ain't gonna rob
That's my freedom, and my liberty
On that last line, play this tab:
Well I ain't gonna piss in no jar
Them evil peckerheads they done gone too far
I wouldn't pee in their mouths if they were dying of thirst
Yeah we got to get rid of this evil curse
I'm alive and I'm fighting this jive
(As first verse)
Everybody should go to Washington
We can have ourselves a little fun
You know, they want our piss, I think we ought to give it to them
Surround the White House with a urinary moat
So Ronnie and Nancy will have to float on a boat
Get across the stinky, steaming yellow pee pee sea, oh
Chorus
You know Thomas Jefferson is gonna be mighty pissed
When he finds out about this, I said
Come back from the dead, Tom, sock 'em in the head
Why is everybody so afraid of drugs
Man they afraid of what the drugs gonna do to us
Well I ain't gonna pee pee in no cup
Miss Nancy Reagan's gonna drink it up
Said yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no no
Well go ahead and throw me in jail
Ram hot spikes up my tail
But you're not gonna get a drop of no peepee out of me
I ain't gonna piss in no jar
You know Foghorn Leghorn wouldn't pee in no jar. You know Patrick Henry
didn't "Give
me liberty or give me a urine sample" now did he? Aw we sure enough
rockin' out, Skid.
Huey Long wouldn't piss in no jar! What's gonna be next, the doo doo
police? (Fade out)
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