"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.
Sitting in my day care
It was day-glo painted
You see me I'm a drinker
You see me now I'm sainted
Chased by the plaintive
Haunted by the medium
Too high to flow too bored to break the tedium
Glow from my tv set was blue like neon
Activate the remote I put the BBC on
I've seen this city, so on
I'm looking out for no-one
Pilot in my eye it gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
I walk in a bar, immediately sense danger
You look at me, girl, as if I was a
A total stranger
3D
Hysterical, ecstatical no matter, call me stags(?)
It's kind of hard to get a drink or
Just a girl to relax on
Phono, no go zone I go through
Aching aways just to relocate you
Kill us with your fist
So you mix it with me
I function better when I get approximately
High by my technical flyby
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
Take a second of me you beckon I'll be
And when you're sad I'll mourn
And when you're down I'm torn
Take a second of me
Said take a second of me
I stand firm for our soil
Lick a rock on foil
Reduce me, seduce me
Dress me up in stussy
Will you be my victim
Show me where to stick em
Take a second of me (a second to see)
3D
In my day-care
On my sofa
One spliff makes daddy go sleep
Makes daddy go sleep
It was day-glo painted
You see me I'm a drinker
You see me now I'm sainted
Chased by the plaintive
Haunted by the medium
Too high to flow too bored to break the tedium
Glow from my tv set was blue like neon
Activate the remote I put the BBC on
I've seen this city, so on
I'm looking out for no-one
Pilot in my eye it gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
I walk in a bar, immediately sense danger
You look at me, girl, as if I was a
A total stranger
3D
Hysterical, ecstatical no matter, call me stags(?)
It's kind of hard to get a drink or
Just a girl to relax on
Phono, no go zone I go through
Aching aways just to relocate you
Kill us with your fist
So you mix it with me
I function better when I get approximately
High by my technical flyby
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
Take a second of me you beckon I'll be
And when you're sad I'll mourn
And when you're down I'm torn
Take a second of me
Said take a second of me
I stand firm for our soil
Lick a rock on foil
Reduce me, seduce me
Dress me up in stussy
Will you be my victim
Show me where to stick em
Take a second of me (a second to see)
3D
In my day-care
On my sofa
One spliff makes daddy go sleep
Makes daddy go sleep
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This is a great song, its very catchy. it could be a heightened view of city life, just the every day occurences are amplified, due to its repetitive nature.