"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.
1, 2, fuck this place up.
We turn desire to fire electric spark to the wire
Highered the stakes when we brought this monster
Life prevail by daring to fail others content just to sail
Hail the future we bring
We bring chaos to blocks like riots to watts blow up spots
Taking the crown off the top notch
Create the pace that you all will follow
Sporadic flow buckles up like a calico
We do smoke sensmilla vodka and see-O-K-E is the real deal
You flubber, never had to suffer
Life's gettin harder and it's only getting rougher
Save some for me can't stop what were going to be
[Chorus]
Walk with me and take this seed a fire for you so dare to fail will you
When my pen hits pad it results in catastrophe
Words and verbs come to form a disaster
If you want it, you got it never hit I spot it
Now come and watch me rise
All the tools, that blew more money than Latrell
You tell, I don't know you think I know you too well you fell
And stumbled laughin' as you tumbled
I guess you forgot about the power we rock
'Cause "all hate the" Machine Head battery
The good, the bad, the ugly
Damaging your battery yeah you been fucked stuck in a rut
Your life has been sucked your tail has been tucked
Save some for me can't stop what were going to be
Just watch as as I demonstrate the reason we dominate
[Chorus]
If we stand alone and believe it all and you tell me it's all I believe in
Yes we stand alone and believe it all if you tell me it's all we believe in
Because we we'll chew and spit you out
And pray upon the weaker
Take what we want
[Chorus]
We turn desire to fire electric spark to the wire
Highered the stakes when we brought this monster
Life prevail by daring to fail others content just to sail
Hail the future we bring
We bring chaos to blocks like riots to watts blow up spots
Taking the crown off the top notch
Create the pace that you all will follow
Sporadic flow buckles up like a calico
We do smoke sensmilla vodka and see-O-K-E is the real deal
You flubber, never had to suffer
Life's gettin harder and it's only getting rougher
Save some for me can't stop what were going to be
[Chorus]
Walk with me and take this seed a fire for you so dare to fail will you
When my pen hits pad it results in catastrophe
Words and verbs come to form a disaster
If you want it, you got it never hit I spot it
Now come and watch me rise
All the tools, that blew more money than Latrell
You tell, I don't know you think I know you too well you fell
And stumbled laughin' as you tumbled
I guess you forgot about the power we rock
'Cause "all hate the" Machine Head battery
The good, the bad, the ugly
Damaging your battery yeah you been fucked stuck in a rut
Your life has been sucked your tail has been tucked
Save some for me can't stop what were going to be
Just watch as as I demonstrate the reason we dominate
[Chorus]
If we stand alone and believe it all and you tell me it's all I believe in
Yes we stand alone and believe it all if you tell me it's all we believe in
Because we we'll chew and spit you out
And pray upon the weaker
Take what we want
[Chorus]
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