"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.
We are the Roundheads
We don't want kings no more
That's why we started
The English civil war
People say we're no fun
But we disagree!
Especially when explaining
Parliamentary democracy
We are particularly excited by the notions of jurisprudence...
That's enough dullness
We're the Cavalier crew!
Supporting King Charles
And everything that he'll do!
Puritans bore us
It's really a crime
When your parliamentary business
Cuts our partying time!
Roundheads, soundheads
Keep-the-music-down-heads!
Rules-and-regulations-led
Dull but fair!
Cavaliers three cheers!
Wackier head gears
We live to boogie with our peers!
Unfair? Don't care!
I am the king, I can do what I like
Start up a war, or a big tax hike
Got a French wife, she's a Catholic
O law! Really, King Charles, we're not quite sure!
Insolence! Is that how you talk to the Crown?
I am the King, I'll just close Parliament down1
I'll think you find, that's in breach of due process...
Here's what we say to that (spit)
Now clear up this mess!
Roundheads, zoundheads
Witches-should-be-drowned-heads,
Don't believe in crowned heads
Parliament's our thing
Cavaliers three cheers!
Your superiors
We're all toffs who cry 'Here, Here'
And 'God Save The King!'
(That's me! )
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Cavaliers! Roundheads! The English Civil War!
Why is it called 'civil'?
May I kill you please?
Sure!
Last ever war to be fought on this land
If I get to power, Christmas will be banned
No chance Cromwell, victory will be mine
You'll never pass a ban on mince pies and mulled wine
That's what you think-
Just wait 'til you're caught
I'll also scrap theatre, music and sport
You're pathetic- war will finish even before it's begun!
We've taken Charles prisoner- the Roundheads have won!
(Oh!)
Victory three cheers!
Cavaliers in tears
No power for years
I'm the leader of the pack!
Charles head, Roundhead, hurrah now the king's dead
Sins binned, instead a righteous track!
(But we'll be back! )
We don't want kings no more
That's why we started
The English civil war
People say we're no fun
But we disagree!
Especially when explaining
Parliamentary democracy
We are particularly excited by the notions of jurisprudence...
That's enough dullness
We're the Cavalier crew!
Supporting King Charles
And everything that he'll do!
Puritans bore us
It's really a crime
When your parliamentary business
Cuts our partying time!
Roundheads, soundheads
Keep-the-music-down-heads!
Rules-and-regulations-led
Dull but fair!
Cavaliers three cheers!
Wackier head gears
We live to boogie with our peers!
Unfair? Don't care!
I am the king, I can do what I like
Start up a war, or a big tax hike
Got a French wife, she's a Catholic
O law! Really, King Charles, we're not quite sure!
Insolence! Is that how you talk to the Crown?
I am the King, I'll just close Parliament down1
I'll think you find, that's in breach of due process...
Here's what we say to that (spit)
Now clear up this mess!
Roundheads, zoundheads
Witches-should-be-drowned-heads,
Don't believe in crowned heads
Parliament's our thing
Cavaliers three cheers!
Your superiors
We're all toffs who cry 'Here, Here'
And 'God Save The King!'
(That's me! )
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Cavaliers! Roundheads! The English Civil War!
Why is it called 'civil'?
May I kill you please?
Sure!
Last ever war to be fought on this land
If I get to power, Christmas will be banned
No chance Cromwell, victory will be mine
You'll never pass a ban on mince pies and mulled wine
That's what you think-
Just wait 'til you're caught
I'll also scrap theatre, music and sport
You're pathetic- war will finish even before it's begun!
We've taken Charles prisoner- the Roundheads have won!
(Oh!)
Victory three cheers!
Cavaliers in tears
No power for years
I'm the leader of the pack!
Charles head, Roundhead, hurrah now the king's dead
Sins binned, instead a righteous track!
(But we'll be back! )
Lyrics submitted by manic4manics
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