"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.
Alabama on the boombox, baby
'bout to get a little boondock crazy (let's go)
Big stars breaking out through the indigo
Chevy wind comin' in and stereo
Tail lights dissapear in bout a mile or so
Down a county road
Phone blowing up where you is
Baby sayin' baby, let's do this
Rocket in a bottle with a fuse lit
Bout to lift it off, I'm bout to twist it off
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret aint a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Well baby you ain't nothin' but a masterpiece
Swayin' and sippin' that Dos Equis
Losin' yourself in the big loud beat, nothin' but heat (come on)
Somebody's rockin' that bang box
Everybody hittin' that sweet spot
Nobody mindin' that tic toc
Gettin' all locked in with all my friends
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin' off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
Hop on, it's a hell of a ride
'Cause anything goes on a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
Hop on, it's a hell of a ride
'Cause anything goes on a Friday night
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin' off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
'bout to get a little boondock crazy (let's go)
Big stars breaking out through the indigo
Chevy wind comin' in and stereo
Tail lights dissapear in bout a mile or so
Down a county road
Phone blowing up where you is
Baby sayin' baby, let's do this
Rocket in a bottle with a fuse lit
Bout to lift it off, I'm bout to twist it off
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret aint a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Well baby you ain't nothin' but a masterpiece
Swayin' and sippin' that Dos Equis
Losin' yourself in the big loud beat, nothin' but heat (come on)
Somebody's rockin' that bang box
Everybody hittin' that sweet spot
Nobody mindin' that tic toc
Gettin' all locked in with all my friends
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin' off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
Hop on, it's a hell of a ride
'Cause anything goes on a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
Hop on, it's a hell of a ride
'Cause anything goes on a Friday night
Lime on the rim of that dixie silver
Smokin' up a faded out 4x4
Girls headin' off to the river, yeah
Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more
I brought the songs and you brought the party
Only one way to do it up right
Everybody goes where eveybody knows
That anything goes on a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Get your party right, it's a Friday night
Alabama on the boombox baby
Bout to get a little boondock crazy
Lyrics submitted by amirbe, edited by corydzbins
Anything Goes Lyrics as written by Christopher G. Tompkins Edward Felix Mcteigue
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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So this is obviously a song about a country party but what most people don't realize that this is about country partying in the 80's. What tips it off is the line about Alabama on the boom box (both had their hayday in the 80's) and lime on the rim of that Dixie Silver which refers to a beer that was produced by Dixie Brewing Company in the 80's and is no longer produced. It came in a 12-ounce bottle. White label with silver trim, “DIXIE” in blue letters, “LIGHT” in silver letters.
Another line people don't seem to understand is: "Smokin' up a faded out 4x4". This means smoking weed in a four wheel drive truck that has all the windows tinted black.
The rest of the song is about bringing a bunch of trucks down a dirt road, in a field, at the county line, at a barn, at a country road dive bar, the river, who knows. The point is that you get your beer and smoke and go have a good time with the good ol' boys in your 4x4.
Here are some links to info about the Dixie Silver:
beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/404/9286/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Brewing_Company