"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.
So you want to be a superstar here's a big big kiss
You want a mess like this 'cause it's the real deal bliss
You got a face like this boy now you just can't miss
You're smoking cheap cigars and drinking beer like piss well
I'm not me I'm not free
You're not mee you're not free
James Brown don't move like that you got to step and twist
I got a six pack and an 80 proof fist
I get it, it's funny, you know I'm making money
Not summer, but sunny. Cool like the Easter bunny
You get it, I'm on it, I got the milk and honey
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
I hear you want to be an icon like Madonna (like a virgin)
You ask yourself now do I? do I?
Do I got to be a sucker slaving 9 to 5, and in the 5 to 9
You're fucking busy working overtime
I'm not me I'm not free
You're not me you're not free
You don't got moves like this
You don't got style like this
I'm not faking it, baby I'm making it
I get it, it's funny, you know I'm making money
Not summer, but sunny, cool like the Easter bunny
You get it, I'm on it, I got the milk and honey
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You want a mess like this 'cause it's the real deal bliss
You got a face like this boy now you just can't miss
You're smoking cheap cigars and drinking beer like piss well
I'm not me I'm not free
You're not mee you're not free
James Brown don't move like that you got to step and twist
I got a six pack and an 80 proof fist
I get it, it's funny, you know I'm making money
Not summer, but sunny. Cool like the Easter bunny
You get it, I'm on it, I got the milk and honey
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
I hear you want to be an icon like Madonna (like a virgin)
You ask yourself now do I? do I?
Do I got to be a sucker slaving 9 to 5, and in the 5 to 9
You're fucking busy working overtime
I'm not me I'm not free
You're not me you're not free
You don't got moves like this
You don't got style like this
I'm not faking it, baby I'm making it
I get it, it's funny, you know I'm making money
Not summer, but sunny, cool like the Easter bunny
You get it, I'm on it, I got the milk and honey
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
You make me laugh - Ha ha ha
Lyrics submitted by miso-happy
Makin' Money Lyrics as written by Danny Walker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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