"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.
I was born in the jungle
With the sickening smell of cinnamon in the air
Born in a white hole
And I can't believe the colors here today
Stalk on a circle
I've never been blessed with an elephant memory and
I'm riding a red line nowhere
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I want the thunder and the rain
I wanna buy me a good home
Where the rising cost of raising children
Is not a factor
And you can't believe the things it does to me
I'm filled with the white noise
Well I never did much of anything anyway
Jump on a big train nowhere
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I want the thunder and the rain
I wanna buy me a good heart
And a conscience
And maybe raise some children
I wanna get me a good wife
And a God and God and God and God and
I'll start me a new life
With a six foot color television
I'll start me a new life somewhere
I was born on a warm night
On the right coast
Southeastern America
Dead on arrival
But you can't believe the things you hear today
I'll fly me a white plane over water
Over blue and green and
Land in the ocean somewhere
With the sickening smell of cinnamon in the air
Born in a white hole
And I can't believe the colors here today
Stalk on a circle
I've never been blessed with an elephant memory and
I'm riding a red line nowhere
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I want the thunder and the rain
I wanna buy me a good home
Where the rising cost of raising children
Is not a factor
And you can't believe the things it does to me
I'm filled with the white noise
Well I never did much of anything anyway
Jump on a big train nowhere
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I want the thunder and the rain
I wanna buy me a good heart
And a conscience
And maybe raise some children
I wanna get me a good wife
And a God and God and God and God and
I'll start me a new life
With a six foot color television
I'll start me a new life somewhere
I was born on a warm night
On the right coast
Southeastern America
Dead on arrival
But you can't believe the things you hear today
I'll fly me a white plane over water
Over blue and green and
Land in the ocean somewhere
Lyrics submitted by ang, edited by am_distracted
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