"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.
Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starved without your skeleton key
I love you for what I am not
I did not want what I have got
Blanket acne'd with cigarette burns
Speak at once while taking turns
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
I'm gonna do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke
I love you for what I am not
I did not want what I have got
Blanket acne'd with cigarette burns
Second-rate third degree burns
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
Hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is what I need?
What do I think? I think
Just use once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starved without your skeleton key
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starved without your skeleton key
I love you for what I am not
I did not want what I have got
Blanket acne'd with cigarette burns
Speak at once while taking turns
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
I'm gonna do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke
I love you for what I am not
I did not want what I have got
Blanket acne'd with cigarette burns
Second-rate third degree burns
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
Hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is what I need?
What do I think? I think
Just use once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starved without your skeleton key
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
What do I think? I think
Lyrics submitted by justinjtp, edited by AidanStalin
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain
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