"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.
Fee, fi, fo, fum
It takes two to tangle it takes one to come
Some things are better left unsaid, like
A pound of protection beats an ounce of lead
Fee, fi, fo, fum
There must be some kinda romance in bein dumb
Find a belt full of bullets, fill your head full of dread
Float like a butterfly, sting like a manta ray
Fee, fi, fo, fum
It takes two to tangle and one to have won
If the future don't suit ya, you're better off dead
'Cause a pound of protection beats an ounce of lead
Fee, fi, fo, fum
There must be some kinda romance in being dumb
'Cause the blind lead the blind lead the blind lead the
Blind lead the blind lead the blind lead the blind lead
The blind lead the blind
And every man for himself
You start to admire the flagrant disregard
For the sanctity of other peoples lives
By the filthy few in positions of power
Who go for the jugular in order to survive
Disinfect those dangerous rabid dogs
Make sure the kids stay in
'Cause if you wanna be immortal
You gotta have something to trade in
Tobacco chompin' soldier of misfortune in that battle they call life
With the warm soft breeze of Santa Ana
Whistlin' 'round dem frail dry bones
I'm the cockroach in your Tinseltown
Cry you mercy, I am the law
When the time runs out
When the money runs out
I can do any goddamn thing I want!
Get outa my sight
Get outa my way
Get outa my way
Get outa my way
Run the gauntlet north and south
March on up to the cannon's mouth
And say I can do any goddamn thing I want
Take the bull by the horns
Gonna slit me some throats on the White House lawns
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I'm the cockroach in your Tinseltown
Try you mercy, I am the law!
And I can do any goddamn thing I want
Power makes pain so, wear rhino hide
If you see a white flash you better cover your eyes
I can do any goddamn thing I want
Change your mind, mind your change
Keep the enemy in focus and in your range
And say I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
Get outta my way
Get outta my way
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
It takes two to tangle it takes one to come
Some things are better left unsaid, like
A pound of protection beats an ounce of lead
Fee, fi, fo, fum
There must be some kinda romance in bein dumb
Find a belt full of bullets, fill your head full of dread
Float like a butterfly, sting like a manta ray
Fee, fi, fo, fum
It takes two to tangle and one to have won
If the future don't suit ya, you're better off dead
'Cause a pound of protection beats an ounce of lead
Fee, fi, fo, fum
There must be some kinda romance in being dumb
'Cause the blind lead the blind lead the blind lead the
Blind lead the blind lead the blind lead the blind lead
The blind lead the blind
And every man for himself
You start to admire the flagrant disregard
For the sanctity of other peoples lives
By the filthy few in positions of power
Who go for the jugular in order to survive
Disinfect those dangerous rabid dogs
Make sure the kids stay in
'Cause if you wanna be immortal
You gotta have something to trade in
Tobacco chompin' soldier of misfortune in that battle they call life
With the warm soft breeze of Santa Ana
Whistlin' 'round dem frail dry bones
I'm the cockroach in your Tinseltown
Cry you mercy, I am the law
When the time runs out
When the money runs out
I can do any goddamn thing I want!
Get outa my sight
Get outa my way
Get outa my way
Get outa my way
Run the gauntlet north and south
March on up to the cannon's mouth
And say I can do any goddamn thing I want
Take the bull by the horns
Gonna slit me some throats on the White House lawns
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I'm the cockroach in your Tinseltown
Try you mercy, I am the law!
And I can do any goddamn thing I want
Power makes pain so, wear rhino hide
If you see a white flash you better cover your eyes
I can do any goddamn thing I want
Change your mind, mind your change
Keep the enemy in focus and in your range
And say I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
Get outta my way
Get outta my way
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do any goddamn thing I want
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
I can do anything
Anything
Anything
Anything
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Anything (Viva!) Lyrics as written by James George Thirlwell
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