"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.
Down there at the pawn shop it's only way to shop
Down there at the pawn shop if it's not in stone
Down there at the pawn shop at no end, no way to shop
Down there at the pawn shop, what has been told
Albino made of stone, just remember that it's flesh and bone
So, why I'm down here at the pawn shop
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
What has been sold, not strictly made of stone
Just remember that it's flesh and bone
And I have heard, like dike-a-bird yeah
But just remember that it's flesh and bone
So why I'm down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
Go! Right! Huh that's right
Down here at the pawn shop it's a nifty way to shop
Down here at the pawn shop it's another sold
Down here at the pawn shop it's something if you never shop
Down here at the pawn shop
What has been sold, not strictly made of stone
Just remember it's flesh and bone
What has been sold, not strictly sold please remember that it's flesh and bone
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop-yop-yop
Hu ooh go! See
Down there at the pawn shop if it's not in stone
Down there at the pawn shop at no end, no way to shop
Down there at the pawn shop, what has been told
Albino made of stone, just remember that it's flesh and bone
So, why I'm down here at the pawn shop
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
What has been sold, not strictly made of stone
Just remember that it's flesh and bone
And I have heard, like dike-a-bird yeah
But just remember that it's flesh and bone
So why I'm down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
Go! Right! Huh that's right
Down here at the pawn shop it's a nifty way to shop
Down here at the pawn shop it's another sold
Down here at the pawn shop it's something if you never shop
Down here at the pawn shop
What has been sold, not strictly made of stone
Just remember it's flesh and bone
What has been sold, not strictly sold please remember that it's flesh and bone
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop
Down here at the pawn shop, down here at the pawn shop-yop-yop
Hu ooh go! See
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski
Pawn Shop Lyrics as written by Eric Wilson Bradley Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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