"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.
Society, we all know there's something wrong and we know it all along
Sincerity, you may think there's no one else 'til they put you on a shelf
Society, pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise
Society, crush the weak to get your share cause nobody's playing fair
And no one cares
How long you pray makes no difference today
When it's society devices how you'll pay
When finding the truth makes no difference to you
Anyway you look at it you're gonna get screwed
You lose
Society, no one here can get along cause our history's to long
Sincerity, think you're going with the flow but you never really know
Society, to all the leaders it's a game and it's making you insane
Society, data patterns are supplied proof tap back up all the lies
Hardly alive
How long you pray makes no difference today
When it's society devices how you'll pay
When finding the truth makes no difference to you
Anyway you look at it you're gonna get screwed
You lose
Society, we all know there's something wrong and we know it all along
Sincerity, you may think there's no one else 'til they put you on a shelf
Society, you can go on with the flow but you never really know
Society, pay your taxes stand in line you can vote or get a life
Society
Society
Society
Society
Sincerity, you may think there's no one else 'til they put you on a shelf
Society, pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise
Society, crush the weak to get your share cause nobody's playing fair
And no one cares
How long you pray makes no difference today
When it's society devices how you'll pay
When finding the truth makes no difference to you
Anyway you look at it you're gonna get screwed
You lose
Society, no one here can get along cause our history's to long
Sincerity, think you're going with the flow but you never really know
Society, to all the leaders it's a game and it's making you insane
Society, data patterns are supplied proof tap back up all the lies
Hardly alive
How long you pray makes no difference today
When it's society devices how you'll pay
When finding the truth makes no difference to you
Anyway you look at it you're gonna get screwed
You lose
Society, we all know there's something wrong and we know it all along
Sincerity, you may think there's no one else 'til they put you on a shelf
Society, you can go on with the flow but you never really know
Society, pay your taxes stand in line you can vote or get a life
Society
Society
Society
Society
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Society Lyrics as written by Fletcher Douglas Dragge Byron C. Mcmackin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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