"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.
Wear my heart on my sleeve
And my head on the curb
Got a sign on my cell that reads "do not disturb"
Fell asleep in a blizzard sometime last night
Woke up alone, freezing and white
Hey, hey mister chicken where have you been
Hunting for trophies among the evergreens
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
Have you heard of my girl, I mean the other day?
Took her out with the sheriff, had a roll in the hay
In a cell stewing over some bum rap
I say off my girl, along with that sap
They say the headless chickens are taking over
They say I lost mine over a four leaf clover
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
They say you always return to the scene of your crime
Well I'm taking the scene, but I'm not sure if its mine
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
And my head on the curb
Got a sign on my cell that reads "do not disturb"
Fell asleep in a blizzard sometime last night
Woke up alone, freezing and white
Hey, hey mister chicken where have you been
Hunting for trophies among the evergreens
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
Have you heard of my girl, I mean the other day?
Took her out with the sheriff, had a roll in the hay
In a cell stewing over some bum rap
I say off my girl, along with that sap
They say the headless chickens are taking over
They say I lost mine over a four leaf clover
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
They say you always return to the scene of your crime
Well I'm taking the scene, but I'm not sure if its mine
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
Going back to Ritzville
Don't ask why
It's a good a place as any to go and die
It's a good a place as any to go and die
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Ritzville Lyrics as written by Mark Mclaughlin Daniel Peters
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