"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.
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
Stupidly I masked??? my smile
My composure was secure
A silly grin from ear to ear
A smile that's all right through
Oh, but then like a streak of lightning it came
Filling my brain with this pain
Without saying a word this voice I heard
"Give up the funk, you punk!"
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we want some
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
>From its funklessness
Deep in pain I called the names
Of some funkified friends of mine
They were on the run
And gettin' it on
And groovin' twelve hours light
Oh, but like a streak of lightning it came
Filling my brain with pain
Without saying a word, this voice I heard
"Give up the funk, you punk!"
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh (shiiine)
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
(x4)
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
Out of nowhere but they were, nearly took me by surprise
They crept upon me early this morning
Right before my eyes
And they were saying
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
Sweet old music
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some (oooh-ooh-ooh!)
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some (unfunky and obsolete)
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
(x2)
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
Stupidly I masked??? my smile
My composure was secure
A silly grin from ear to ear
A smile that's all right through
Oh, but then like a streak of lightning it came
Filling my brain with this pain
Without saying a word this voice I heard
"Give up the funk, you punk!"
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we want some
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
>From its funklessness
Deep in pain I called the names
Of some funkified friends of mine
They were on the run
And gettin' it on
And groovin' twelve hours light
Oh, but like a streak of lightning it came
Filling my brain with pain
Without saying a word, this voice I heard
"Give up the funk, you punk!"
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh (shiiine)
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
(x4)
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
Out of nowhere but they were, nearly took me by surprise
They crept upon me early this morning
Right before my eyes
And they were saying
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
Sweet old music
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some (oooh-ooh-ooh!)
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
Unfunky kind of UFO (from the sun)
Here from the sun (you've got the groove)
You've got the groove and we've got some (unfunky and obsolete)
We're unfunky and we're obsolete (and out of time)
And we're out of time
Gonna take your funk and make it mine
You've got all that is really needed
To save a dying world
From its funklessness
You could feel so much better
If you would show me how to funk like you do
(x2)
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Unfunky UFO Lyrics as written by George Clinton Jr. Garry Marshall Shider
Lyrics © Word Collections Publishing
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