"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.
“Hey you should fix your face
When you look down you’re so ugly”
It's what a rando said to me
Like I give a eff about what he thinks!
I don’t…Just for the record
So my face goes uncorrected
I smile when i want and i come
With a range of emotions!
So umm…he must be dumb
To think i’m decoration!
A puppet on a string?
He don't know anything!
Next time he starts to think
That i look better when smiling
I'll paint a pretty Cheshire Cat
And shove it up his ass!
[Hook]
He see me an emoji
One tap and I'm smiling
Want me to be an emoji?
Oh no! He don’t know me!
He said I'm pretty as a picture
That he wanna get with me
Um…No time for this mess!
Hot to him or I don’t exist?
Real chick: I’m not the one
To smile when I’m burdened
Got a problem with face
Turn round: Look the other way!
Uh oh! I do what I want with my face
Just cause he wanna get laid
Can’t go round correcting
The ways I choose to be
I'm free I’m doing me
I’ll smile when I’m truly happy
No mirror reflecting
Your idea of sexy
Style, grace, pretty, face
You’re a girl. So Smile for the world!
[Repeat 2xs]
Goals goals, got a few
None have got to do with you
Goals goals, got a few
Don't care if you approve
[Hook]
When you look down you’re so ugly”
It's what a rando said to me
Like I give a eff about what he thinks!
I don’t…Just for the record
So my face goes uncorrected
I smile when i want and i come
With a range of emotions!
So umm…he must be dumb
To think i’m decoration!
A puppet on a string?
He don't know anything!
Next time he starts to think
That i look better when smiling
I'll paint a pretty Cheshire Cat
And shove it up his ass!
[Hook]
He see me an emoji
One tap and I'm smiling
Want me to be an emoji?
Oh no! He don’t know me!
He said I'm pretty as a picture
That he wanna get with me
Um…No time for this mess!
Hot to him or I don’t exist?
Real chick: I’m not the one
To smile when I’m burdened
Got a problem with face
Turn round: Look the other way!
Uh oh! I do what I want with my face
Just cause he wanna get laid
Can’t go round correcting
The ways I choose to be
I'm free I’m doing me
I’ll smile when I’m truly happy
No mirror reflecting
Your idea of sexy
Style, grace, pretty, face
You’re a girl. So Smile for the world!
[Repeat 2xs]
Goals goals, got a few
None have got to do with you
Goals goals, got a few
Don't care if you approve
[Hook]
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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