"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.
Rapido is the speed I go
Will not go slow
It's so in vogue
To criticize what you don't know
From behind
He's mighty fine
When you walk the line
This time I'm through there's nothing more to do
Ever since I never saw you
I could pull you down to the levels
You think you're above
And you will find out the hard way
You're not immune to my love
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like the thing in Jeepers Creepers
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like Vladimir Putin
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like that re-occurring thing on my back
You keep coming back
You keep coming back
I could take you halfway home
But that's as far as I'll go
And you find out the hard way that I just don't know
I just don't know
I ate Milwaukee
I ate Milwaukee
With the side of Kenosha
I like to talkie
Walkie-talkie
Walkie-talkie
Do you know where the violence goes
Ever since I never saw you
It's just an illusion
I'm just a guy in a human suit
I could tell you the truth right now but that's not my style
You're in the worst pickle you could be in
By a country mile
Yeah
Will not go slow
It's so in vogue
To criticize what you don't know
From behind
He's mighty fine
When you walk the line
This time I'm through there's nothing more to do
Ever since I never saw you
I could pull you down to the levels
You think you're above
And you will find out the hard way
You're not immune to my love
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like the thing in Jeepers Creepers
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like Vladimir Putin
You keep coming back
You keep coming back like that re-occurring thing on my back
You keep coming back
You keep coming back
I could take you halfway home
But that's as far as I'll go
And you find out the hard way that I just don't know
I just don't know
I ate Milwaukee
I ate Milwaukee
With the side of Kenosha
I like to talkie
Walkie-talkie
Walkie-talkie
Do you know where the violence goes
Ever since I never saw you
It's just an illusion
I'm just a guy in a human suit
I could tell you the truth right now but that's not my style
You're in the worst pickle you could be in
By a country mile
Yeah
Lyrics submitted by hornytheclown
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