"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.
The weekend is back
But so is he
Head to the floodlights
See the fraternity
They are waiting
I hear them up in the north
And down in the south
And all that is spewing
Spewing out of his mouth
Entertain me
At his and hers dating
Bored minds agree
Requirements to be stated
Replies awaited
She wants a loose fit
He wants instant whip
He guesstimates her arrival
Will she want it really badly
Entertain me
A car, a house, both in a street
The boredom of the sober week
The weekend's here, hip hip hooray
To make the blues just go away
Entertain me
But so is he
Head to the floodlights
See the fraternity
They are waiting
I hear them up in the north
And down in the south
And all that is spewing
Spewing out of his mouth
Entertain me
At his and hers dating
Bored minds agree
Requirements to be stated
Replies awaited
She wants a loose fit
He wants instant whip
He guesstimates her arrival
Will she want it really badly
Entertain me
A car, a house, both in a street
The boredom of the sober week
The weekend's here, hip hip hooray
To make the blues just go away
Entertain me
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Entertain Me Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Steven Alexander James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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