"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.
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
L-Let’s do drugs
Make love with our teachers
Come on, baby, tell me,
What is tattooed as featured.
I’m a fan of Pro Ana nation
I do them drugs to stop the f-food cravings
If you wanna get high with me, I’m in the back
Doing crack, drinking P-P-Pepsi
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
Cheap trailer trash and everyone knows it
But she got a great ass and she knows how to show it
With american flags on each little finger
You’re crashing on Wall Street while I’m blowing up as a singer
If you wanna get that scholarship
Love's not a problem, let’s solve it
Educated in the language of doing-it
Get down like your tutor taught you to and do it
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
If you wanna get that sugar cane
If you wanna be that pin up queen, you can you can
If you wanna do that South Beach swing
Or go on group vacationing, you can you can
When they said prolific, they weren't kidding
You thought that I was just a calendar kitten
But now you heard me purring, tiger you’re smitten
So let’s begin to major in the art of sinning
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
L-Let’s do drugs
Make love with our teachers
Come on, baby, tell me,
What is tattooed as featured.
I’m a fan of Pro Ana nation
I do them drugs to stop the f-food cravings
If you wanna get high with me, I’m in the back
Doing crack, drinking P-P-Pepsi
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
Cheap trailer trash and everyone knows it
But she got a great ass and she knows how to show it
With american flags on each little finger
You’re crashing on Wall Street while I’m blowing up as a singer
If you wanna get that scholarship
Love's not a problem, let’s solve it
Educated in the language of doing-it
Get down like your tutor taught you to and do it
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
If you wanna get that sugar cane
If you wanna be that pin up queen, you can you can
If you wanna do that South Beach swing
Or go on group vacationing, you can you can
When they said prolific, they weren't kidding
You thought that I was just a calendar kitten
But now you heard me purring, tiger you’re smitten
So let’s begin to major in the art of sinning
Everyone from home says that you’re so cool
Come on everybody to the boarding school
Everyone from town says that you’re so cool
Come on get down to the boarding school
Lyrics submitted by iholdher, edited by HoneyBeBad, SpinoJB
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From the rolling stones interview: rollingstone.com/music/features/lana-del-rey-vamp-of-constant-sorrow-20140731
In an early song called "Boarding School," she mentions being part of a "pro-ana nation" referring to anorexia, and sings, "Had to do drugs to stop the food cravings." But she insists that's fiction. "The mentality of the pro-ana community was just something that was interesting to me."
A young English instructor introduced her to Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman and Vladimir Nabokov (she has tattoos of the latter two names on her forearm), plus Tupac, the Notorious B.I.G. and old movies like The Big Sleep. Lines in "Boarding School" and another unreleased track, "Prom Song," led fans to question the precise nature of this relationship, but Del Rey says it was nothing inappropriate. "He was just my friend."