"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 don't want to go and party,
I don't want to shoot the pier,
I don't want to take the doggie for a walk,
I don't want to look at naked chicks and drink beer,
I don't want to do a bong load, go and wrench on a car,
I don't want to hose the dog shit down,
'Cause I ain't even gonna get out of bed,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay.
I don't want to watch no porno,
And I don't want to play guitar,
I don't want to spank the monkey,
I don't want to go down to the corner bar,
And I ain't even got to listen
To all the stupid shit you got to say.
I don't want to do a goddamn thing.
I don't want to,
Want to leave my bed today
I don't want
Want to leave my bed today
I don't want
I don't want to leave my bed today
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay
I don't want to eat burritos,
Or read about OJ
No I don't want to get a head rush
'Cause I ain't even gettin' out of bed today
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't got to leave my bed today
No, no, no, no, no, no
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay
I don't want to shoot the pier,
I don't want to take the doggie for a walk,
I don't want to look at naked chicks and drink beer,
I don't want to do a bong load, go and wrench on a car,
I don't want to hose the dog shit down,
'Cause I ain't even gonna get out of bed,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay.
I don't want to watch no porno,
And I don't want to play guitar,
I don't want to spank the monkey,
I don't want to go down to the corner bar,
And I ain't even got to listen
To all the stupid shit you got to say.
I don't want to do a goddamn thing.
I don't want to,
Want to leave my bed today
I don't want
Want to leave my bed today
I don't want
I don't want to leave my bed today
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay
I don't want to eat burritos,
Or read about OJ
No I don't want to get a head rush
'Cause I ain't even gettin' out of bed today
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't gettin',
I ain't gettin' out of bed today,
I ain't got to leave my bed today
No, no, no, no, no, no
Keep on skankin' Ronnie,
Skank the night away,
But the time is coming,
For us all to pay
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski
Burritos Lyrics as written by Eric John Wilson Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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it's about being dopesick. you can't get out of bed and you don't care to do fucking ANYTHING.
you dont get it because youve never done heroin, not all his songs are, but this one is.
yes it makes sense because you could be skanking for hours on meth without resting. doing that would take all the energy that
you would normaly use to get out of bed the next day.