"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.
Ragh woo eats meat eats meat hahaha look out
Dirty Frank dahmer he's a gourmet cook, yeah
I got a recipe for anglo-saxin soup, yeah
Wanted a pass so she relaxed
Now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back
I got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients
A very careful at the same time quite expedient
Eats meat a release
Bus driving's harder on your head than on your feet
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yeah
A Dirty Frank ooh
A Dirty Frank yea oh
Keeps it clean a keeps it copaseptic
A little boys and girls their heads are all collected
A not crazy a per se
Just a little strange when he gets hungry
City state your town he will continue
A stadiums tiny clubs every venue
A his bus a your trust
There goes another turned into crust
Dirty frank
A Dirty Frank yeah
A Dirty Frank
Oh a Dirty Frank yeah
Oh, watch it now
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother shut your mouth
Hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
Oh wa-ha a yea
Oh yeah
(Cookoo) there fucking crazy these kids are driving me crazy
Oh, middle of the night we're stopped the freeway shoulder
A Frank's shoveling to bury the leftovers
A they're sunk, he's drunk
Now he's gonna drive I'm hiding in my bunk. Oh
The band all knows we're too afraid to mention
A don't want to be part of frank's luncheon
A lose weight a be safe
Where's Mike Mccready? My god he's been ate!
Dirty frank
A Dirty frank, yeah
A Dirty frank, uuh
Dirty Frank yeah yeah yeah
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yea yea yea
A Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yea yea yea
Oh he's gone fruit loops it's the perfect job
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Mommy mommy I'll just sing mommy no no
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother
Shut your mouth hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yeah, a Dirty Frank yeah yeah
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother
Shut your mouth hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank yeah yeah
Dirty Frank
Okay I think that's enough
Dirty Frank dahmer he's a gourmet cook, yeah
I got a recipe for anglo-saxin soup, yeah
Wanted a pass so she relaxed
Now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back
I got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients
A very careful at the same time quite expedient
Eats meat a release
Bus driving's harder on your head than on your feet
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yeah
A Dirty Frank ooh
A Dirty Frank yea oh
Keeps it clean a keeps it copaseptic
A little boys and girls their heads are all collected
A not crazy a per se
Just a little strange when he gets hungry
City state your town he will continue
A stadiums tiny clubs every venue
A his bus a your trust
There goes another turned into crust
Dirty frank
A Dirty Frank yeah
A Dirty Frank
Oh a Dirty Frank yeah
Oh, watch it now
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother shut your mouth
Hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
Oh wa-ha a yea
Oh yeah
(Cookoo) there fucking crazy these kids are driving me crazy
Oh, middle of the night we're stopped the freeway shoulder
A Frank's shoveling to bury the leftovers
A they're sunk, he's drunk
Now he's gonna drive I'm hiding in my bunk. Oh
The band all knows we're too afraid to mention
A don't want to be part of frank's luncheon
A lose weight a be safe
Where's Mike Mccready? My god he's been ate!
Dirty frank
A Dirty frank, yeah
A Dirty frank, uuh
Dirty Frank yeah yeah yeah
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yea yea yea
A Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yea yea yea
Oh he's gone fruit loops it's the perfect job
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Mommy mommy I'll just sing mommy no no
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Cook them just to see the look on their face
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother
Shut your mouth hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank yeah, a Dirty Frank yeah yeah
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother
Shut your mouth hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank
A Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank yeah yeah
Dirty Frank
Okay I think that's enough
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