"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.
Back lounge tree hound
Glazed sun hell bound
Call up al your closest friends
So we can do it all again
Hey, humble star
Do you think you're gonna live forever
But what's forever
Did you ever have the feeling you were falling, walking
Now you're crawling
Blind man coke fan
Politician
Guess what you got it all too soon
Now your sucking on a glass balloon
Hey, humble star
Do you think you're gonna live forever
But what's forever
Is it better than what they bought and sold you
Now they control your soul
And all the time you knew that I was standing there
Asking all the questions, who and why and where.
You run and hide you swim away
Afraid of all the things I say
Now the time caught up with you
Fast car child star
j.a.p. girl rap czar
No one is to blame
How's it feel to be a household name
Someone's about to lose
And it's playing on the evening news
Hey, crumbled star
I guess it didn't last forever
Does it ever
Forever's never
I guess you really weren't so clever.
Glazed sun hell bound
Call up al your closest friends
So we can do it all again
Hey, humble star
Do you think you're gonna live forever
But what's forever
Did you ever have the feeling you were falling, walking
Now you're crawling
Blind man coke fan
Politician
Guess what you got it all too soon
Now your sucking on a glass balloon
Hey, humble star
Do you think you're gonna live forever
But what's forever
Is it better than what they bought and sold you
Now they control your soul
And all the time you knew that I was standing there
Asking all the questions, who and why and where.
You run and hide you swim away
Afraid of all the things I say
Now the time caught up with you
Fast car child star
j.a.p. girl rap czar
No one is to blame
How's it feel to be a household name
Someone's about to lose
And it's playing on the evening news
Hey, crumbled star
I guess it didn't last forever
Does it ever
Forever's never
I guess you really weren't so clever.
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Humble Star Lyrics as written by Matthew Joseph Senatore Charles P Roth
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, THE RECORD BREAKERS, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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