"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.
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, across your face
You've got my heart beating triple time
A dark rhythm beating just behind
Expose those subtle rewards
Across your face
Oh, your face
I'll ask your thighs, with beautiful lies
Kidnap your mind, I'll help you find
A gentile pain, rush through your veins
It's like the sun
With black rays so bad, so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad
I'll win over that sign in you
I'll be that pretty noise through, I'll be that sonic boom
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad
I went over that part of you
Play that pretty line just for you
I'll be that gentile tune (gentile tune)
Oh, that tune
I called in my part, different kind
I'll help you find
What's in your mind
I'll be that pain (across your face)
In so much pain
It's like the sun
With black rays so bad, so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad (so major minor love)
So many things I wanna do
I'll split you into two
And two minds are better set
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
You'll be my body of words (so bad, I'm so bad)
A major minor love
Oh
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad (it's a major minor love)
It's a major minor love
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, across your face
You've got my heart beating triple time
A dark rhythm beating just behind
Expose those subtle rewards
Across your face
Oh, your face
I'll ask your thighs, with beautiful lies
Kidnap your mind, I'll help you find
A gentile pain, rush through your veins
It's like the sun
With black rays so bad, so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad
I'll win over that sign in you
I'll be that pretty noise through, I'll be that sonic boom
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad
I went over that part of you
Play that pretty line just for you
I'll be that gentile tune (gentile tune)
Oh, that tune
I called in my part, different kind
I'll help you find
What's in your mind
I'll be that pain (across your face)
In so much pain
It's like the sun
With black rays so bad, so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad (so major minor love)
So many things I wanna do
I'll split you into two
And two minds are better set
So bad, I'm so bad
So bad, I'm so bad
You'll be my body of words (so bad, I'm so bad)
A major minor love
Oh
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad (it's a major minor love)
It's a major minor love
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
I'm so bad, I'm so bad
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings, edited by ddollar, bermonicatz, spacebat11
Major Minor Love Lyrics as written by Robin Hannibal Moelsted Braun Michael Edward Milosh
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing
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I'm not sure why my lyric's were edited I got them directly from the vinyl gate sleeve. These lyrics are now incorrect I will re-edit them shortly.