"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 don't wanna hear you've got a boyfriend
Sometimes you're better off alone
But if you change your mind, you know where I am
Yeah, if you change your mind, you know where to find me
'Cause I don't ever wanna be your boyfriend
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
Push another girl aside and just give in
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
Pose, you've gotta save your reputation
They're close to finding out about your girlfriend
But if you change your mind, you know where I am
Yeah, if you change your mind, you know, where to find me
'Cause I don't wanna save your reputation
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
Push another girl aside and just give in
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
I am just a villain vying for attention from a girl
A girl who can't decide and here's the reason why
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
Sometimes you're better off alone
But if you change your mind, you know where I am
Yeah, if you change your mind, you know where to find me
'Cause I don't ever wanna be your boyfriend
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
Push another girl aside and just give in
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
Pose, you've gotta save your reputation
They're close to finding out about your girlfriend
But if you change your mind, you know where I am
Yeah, if you change your mind, you know, where to find me
'Cause I don't wanna save your reputation
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
Push another girl aside and just give in
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
I am just a villain vying for attention from a girl
A girl who can't decide and here's the reason why
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
Girls love girls and boys (sophisticated, manipulated)
And never did I think that I
Would be caught in the way you got me
But girls love girls and boys
And love is not a choice
Lyrics submitted by ghostyyy, edited by MyCyanideLife
Girls/Girls/Boys Lyrics as written by Dallon James Weekes Brendon Boyd Urie
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I know that people are concerned about the "can't decide" lyric, but I actually interpreted this differently. I don't think Brendon's perpetuating the stereotype that bi girls can't "choose" a gender to like (if he were, why would he say "love is not a choice"?). Rather, I think he's turning it on its head.
If you look at all those lyrics together, it goes "I am just a villain vying for attention from a girl, a girl who can't decide and here's the reason why: Girls love girls and boys."
I see this as him saying that this girl can't choose between him and her girlfriend - that she loves both of them, because she's bisexual. Instead of him saying "you need to decide whether you like girls or guys," he's saying, "you know you like girls and guys and that's why it's so hard to decide whether you want to be with me or her." Maybe I'm wrong, but when you put all the lyrics together, it makes sense.