"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.
Thorn in, my side.
And you live just to pull me down.
Rusted, nail I stepped on.
This infection.
Thorn in my side.
You're full,
I think so,
of anger.
You need to sit down,
stay down.
The things you, want but don't get.
Is that fair, I don't think so.
A sure thing, you can count, on.
A big depression.
A thorn in my side.
You're full,
I think so,
of anger.
You need to.
Your praise, is two faced,
And you're
you're cut down,
my friend.
Cut Down.
A thorn in my side, thorn in.
A thorn in my side, thorn in.
And you live just to pull me down.
Rusted, nail I stepped on.
This infection.
Thorn in my side.
You're full,
I think so,
of anger.
You need to sit down,
stay down.
The things you, want but don't get.
Is that fair, I don't think so.
A sure thing, you can count, on.
A big depression.
A thorn in my side.
You're full,
I think so,
of anger.
You need to.
Your praise, is two faced,
And you're
you're cut down,
my friend.
Cut Down.
A thorn in my side, thorn in.
A thorn in my side, thorn in.
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Thorn in My Side Lyrics as written by Sergio Vega Alan Cage
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how come there ano comments on this great band?
all the people who listen to current indie should listen to these guys
oh, and the song is clearly about the kind of people who say they are your friends, yet they always try to put you down, blocking any chance you might have of improving on your life
hipocrissy if you want to
NO ONE has a clue. This is one of my alltime favorite bands and I can't beliieve that as big an influence as they have had on the hardcore/post-harcore generation of music, no one knows about them