"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.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
We lose our voice more each year
Maybe we won't bring some
Is there Cancer in the throat No Stress
Maybe its supposed to kill the success
Because success needs killing
Murder is media
Forced laugh, Forged autograph,
First my body, now my corpse
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Life is pain, Murder is fame,
And if you're famous you might get acquitted
There's nowhere to run away
Damn you I hope you pay
And finish the day-to-day
The games we play.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
I will stay at home
And talk on the telephone,
'cause nothing in this world I want from you,
Don't free yourself, run and cry
Too scared to live
Too quick to die
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Stable Homes
Those men will break your bones
Stable homes
Those men will break your bones
Stable homes
Those men will break your bones
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
We lose our voice more each year
Maybe we won't bring some
Is there Cancer in the throat No Stress
Maybe its supposed to kill the success
Because success needs killing
Murder is media
Forced laugh, Forged autograph,
First my body, now my corpse
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Life is pain, Murder is fame,
And if you're famous you might get acquitted
There's nowhere to run away
Damn you I hope you pay
And finish the day-to-day
The games we play.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
I will stay at home
And talk on the telephone,
'cause nothing in this world I want from you,
Don't free yourself, run and cry
Too scared to live
Too quick to die
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Those men will break your bones,
Don't know how to build stable homes.
Stable Homes
Those men will break your bones
Stable homes
Those men will break your bones
Stable homes
Those men will break your bones
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