"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.
Trawling on my DM
You don't know me though
Had you on my lips again
You don't know me though
I don't need a girlfriend
You don't know me though
Wrecked another weekend
You don't know me though
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets
Reflexively retching Anglo influx though there will be
No gentrificating of
Graffiti worship of summer love, our love
It's hard to stop the triggering of one's self-destructive urges
I liberated you twice
You don't know me though
You've become my only vice
You don't know me though
I don't want to be nice
You don't know me though
I'm a, I'm a sacrifice
You don't know me though
I fell abandoned when you nurse my on my swerve
I made my antigen being your loyal perv
I became a holiday I need you to observe
I gave you devotion that I'm hoping you deserve
I guess redemption is my ultimate turn-on
This reclamation has got me trying to prove
That knee-down our insides have found the groove
Got to win
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets of
White flight in reverse on the crests of their vaporwave
An intersectional highs
And then, then, then your so patient lows
It's hard to stop the impact of one's offensive ways
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets
Reflexively retching Anglo influx though there will be
No gentrificating of
Graffiti worship of summer love
It's hard to stop the triggering of one's self-destructive urges
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's portraits of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
You don't know me though
Had you on my lips again
You don't know me though
I don't need a girlfriend
You don't know me though
Wrecked another weekend
You don't know me though
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets
Reflexively retching Anglo influx though there will be
No gentrificating of
Graffiti worship of summer love, our love
It's hard to stop the triggering of one's self-destructive urges
I liberated you twice
You don't know me though
You've become my only vice
You don't know me though
I don't want to be nice
You don't know me though
I'm a, I'm a sacrifice
You don't know me though
I fell abandoned when you nurse my on my swerve
I made my antigen being your loyal perv
I became a holiday I need you to observe
I gave you devotion that I'm hoping you deserve
I guess redemption is my ultimate turn-on
This reclamation has got me trying to prove
That knee-down our insides have found the groove
Got to win
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets of
White flight in reverse on the crests of their vaporwave
An intersectional highs
And then, then, then your so patient lows
It's hard to stop the impact of one's offensive ways
Soft music changes the oxygen from
Prestige Bushwick Streets
Reflexively retching Anglo influx though there will be
No gentrificating of
Graffiti worship of summer love
It's hard to stop the triggering of one's self-destructive urges
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's portraits of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Purgatory in hearts filled up by
Juno's photos of the Jovian sky
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Soft Music/Juno Portraits of the Jovian Sky Lyrics as written by Kevin Barnes
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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