"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.
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the first time I met him
he said he was a dwarfstar
cause he was small
and he was... famous
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the second time I met him
he said I could never be a dwarfstar
because I was too tall
and I wasn't... famous
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the thir.... the second time I mean
that I went to see him
he was not in a very good mood
he said "stop comin' around here!"
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the last time
that I went to see him
he had passed away
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the end...
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the first time I met him
he said he was a dwarfstar
cause he was small
and he was... famous
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the second time I met him
he said I could never be a dwarfstar
because I was too tall
and I wasn't... famous
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the thir.... the second time I mean
that I went to see him
he was not in a very good mood
he said "stop comin' around here!"
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the last time
that I went to see him
he had passed away
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
I wanna tell ya 'bout my friend the dwarfstar
the end...
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I heard Melora wrote this song after a run in with Gary Coleman.
Looks like she won.
It is about Marilyn Manson, When she went on tour with him. at the time of "Anti Christ Superstar"
she said it herself @ a concert.
He didn't acknowledge her the whole tour, so she made a joke out of it.
Melora said that this song was written with the character on "Fantasy Island," Mr. Rourke's midget assistant, in mind. (The one who ran to ring the bell and shout, "Da plane, da plane!" in every episode.)
It's a neat concept song, paralleling a natural phenom (a dwarf star, the last stage before a shrinking star dies) and a famous person.
Makes me think of one-hit wonders in the film industry....
I used to be a Manson fanatic and many people who knew him said he was a total jerk.His fame really didn't last too long. But he's 6'1....not quite dwarf but maybe meaning that he didnt get too big famewise.
Okay, it's about a Little person who's famous. And he doesn't like her very much. Then he dies. Wow, that one was hard.