"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.
Feel the bass knives pass your flesh
Enter your bone
Solitude in your dance floor rhythm zone
Let your body go just don't follow the letter
Do what you feel the more absurd the better
Don't be afraid whatever you got, show
Flaunt your personality, let me know your style
You could make a mean hand out of what you been dealt
311 on wax, wax on felt
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you reevaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes you feel good what's in your heart
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you check us out on tour 'cause your likin' the style
Drumbs the bass the master plan
Nice guitars the mics in our hands
[Chorus]
Strong all along, strong all along
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this for the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake but what's left icing
To every foundation and every crew
I've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
From the malibu shores to the brooklyn zoo
We've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
You want to touch us, we want to touch you too
Givin' respect to those who keepin' it true
If you are real or a replica
If your steez be like Akira
Wild ass Sioux or the Chippewa
Your tribes Pawnee or the Omaha
You can touch me with your fresh aura
'cause your energy be phenomena
Now move the people and then oila
Take on the love and the good karma
[Chorus]
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you reevaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes ou feel good what's in your heart
To every foundation and every crew
We've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props staight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
[Chorus]
Enter your bone
Solitude in your dance floor rhythm zone
Let your body go just don't follow the letter
Do what you feel the more absurd the better
Don't be afraid whatever you got, show
Flaunt your personality, let me know your style
You could make a mean hand out of what you been dealt
311 on wax, wax on felt
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you reevaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes you feel good what's in your heart
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you check us out on tour 'cause your likin' the style
Drumbs the bass the master plan
Nice guitars the mics in our hands
[Chorus]
Strong all along, strong all along
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this for the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake but what's left icing
To every foundation and every crew
I've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
From the malibu shores to the brooklyn zoo
We've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
You want to touch us, we want to touch you too
Givin' respect to those who keepin' it true
If you are real or a replica
If your steez be like Akira
Wild ass Sioux or the Chippewa
Your tribes Pawnee or the Omaha
You can touch me with your fresh aura
'cause your energy be phenomena
Now move the people and then oila
Take on the love and the good karma
[Chorus]
Feelin' real great 'cause the weather is mild
So you reevaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes ou feel good what's in your heart
To every foundation and every crew
We've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props staight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
Strong All Along Lyrics as written by Nicholas Hexum Douglas Martinez
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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