"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.
Youth of today aren't happy and gay, hostile, volatile only concerned with style.
Home alone so they act grown.
Who's the baby-sitter since your parents were the damn quitters!
Rap city in the place to be suburbanite into a ghetto-knight.
What's the cost of my generation being lost?
A clue less mom and dad tell me who's the boss.
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
Single-parent raised in the bosom of ghetto.
Affecting middle-class and the rich growing up half-ass life's a bitch.
No guidance so you ride to the end.
You wonder why the streets are their best friend, couldn't tell you
Nothing about school, but they can show you how to roll a joint and shoot pool.
Love from that one parent would have been cool.
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
No morals, no couth, no manners and running with a foul crew.
Thought you knew everything about your son, it was not dad who showed him how to use a gun.
S-E-X was last on mama's list.
Now she's confused about kissing and sucking dick.
Down breed until they're misled must be nothing left after being breast-fed!!!!!!!
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
Home alone so they act grown.
Who's the baby-sitter since your parents were the damn quitters!
Rap city in the place to be suburbanite into a ghetto-knight.
What's the cost of my generation being lost?
A clue less mom and dad tell me who's the boss.
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
Single-parent raised in the bosom of ghetto.
Affecting middle-class and the rich growing up half-ass life's a bitch.
No guidance so you ride to the end.
You wonder why the streets are their best friend, couldn't tell you
Nothing about school, but they can show you how to roll a joint and shoot pool.
Love from that one parent would have been cool.
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
No morals, no couth, no manners and running with a foul crew.
Thought you knew everything about your son, it was not dad who showed him how to use a gun.
S-E-X was last on mama's list.
Now she's confused about kissing and sucking dick.
Down breed until they're misled must be nothing left after being breast-fed!!!!!!!
Poor parental skills ~ that's the deal now you know the real.
Poor parental skills ~ You cannot deal that's the real.
Down, down breeding.
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