"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.
AC, AC
Put your hands up
Put your hands up
Put your hands up
Shoulda known something was up
When I got up
Something felt funny to me
From the get up
Jumped up out of the bed
With my head up
Guess who was staring at me?
An ET or an alien
But he said his name was Steve
And he didn't look like what I thought he would be
He said "Aaron, will you help me please
Get your space suit and come with me"
So we hoped up, in the space truck
It was all combed out with the system up
And I thought we were going to Mars
We made a left
At the dipper
Never figured that we'd be here with a space majiggy
We got there and I read a sign
It said "Welcome AC, it's about time
Can you show us,
Can you help us,
To dance tonight?
'Cause we have no rhythm
And we're running outta time"
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
Listen up
Here's what you got to do
You take one step up
Don't try to take two
Make sure that you bump your fists like this
Nod like this, and rock like this
'Cause everybody gotta learn this way
To a be together, stay together
Know we gonna innovate
Moonwalk, star drop
A universal big top
Circus notice, and you gotta know this
It really doesn't matter
If you're short or tall
Green or blue
Fat or bald
'Cause I came with a groove
And I'm proving it all
Around these parts we don't take no show
With the unity soon to be in the streets
You can see with your own eyes
How far we've come
'Cause we didn't have rhythm, now we've got some
It's just another day in the AC Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
You say you wanna dance
Well, here's your chance
(Uh, uh) Four-three-two-one
Break it down, we gonna break it on down
(Uh, uh)
Right, right to left
(Uh, uh)
Right, right to left
Up and down and side to side
C'mon, what, we're gonna bounce like this
What, what. We gonna pump them fists, what
AC baby, AC baby, that's where we at
C'mon, drop it down
Four-three-two-one
Drop it down
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
Put your hands up
Put your hands up
Put your hands up
Shoulda known something was up
When I got up
Something felt funny to me
From the get up
Jumped up out of the bed
With my head up
Guess who was staring at me?
An ET or an alien
But he said his name was Steve
And he didn't look like what I thought he would be
He said "Aaron, will you help me please
Get your space suit and come with me"
So we hoped up, in the space truck
It was all combed out with the system up
And I thought we were going to Mars
We made a left
At the dipper
Never figured that we'd be here with a space majiggy
We got there and I read a sign
It said "Welcome AC, it's about time
Can you show us,
Can you help us,
To dance tonight?
'Cause we have no rhythm
And we're running outta time"
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
Listen up
Here's what you got to do
You take one step up
Don't try to take two
Make sure that you bump your fists like this
Nod like this, and rock like this
'Cause everybody gotta learn this way
To a be together, stay together
Know we gonna innovate
Moonwalk, star drop
A universal big top
Circus notice, and you gotta know this
It really doesn't matter
If you're short or tall
Green or blue
Fat or bald
'Cause I came with a groove
And I'm proving it all
Around these parts we don't take no show
With the unity soon to be in the streets
You can see with your own eyes
How far we've come
'Cause we didn't have rhythm, now we've got some
It's just another day in the AC Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
You say you wanna dance
Well, here's your chance
(Uh, uh) Four-three-two-one
Break it down, we gonna break it on down
(Uh, uh)
Right, right to left
(Uh, uh)
Right, right to left
Up and down and side to side
C'mon, what, we're gonna bounce like this
What, what. We gonna pump them fists, what
AC baby, AC baby, that's where we at
C'mon, drop it down
Four-three-two-one
Drop it down
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Roll up to the rock where
There's a universe of rhythm
And the beat don't stop in AC's Alien Nation
Everyone is a cosmic freak
And we only have one mission
Gotta move as one in AC's Alien Nation
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A.C.'s Alien Nation Lyrics as written by Nathan Moran Butler Andrew G. Goldmark
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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