"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.
Don't tell us we only care about the dykes and fags, Don't try and find fake reasons to hate us Some people get it, lots more people need it Freedom is freedom, it's for all or it's all for nothing it's been hours it's on strike I'll turn it around i'm a contradiction I don't want to be a man you can be what you want with me What you want it what i want you to tell me to boss you around I want to watch you lose control sometimes I'm the Fonz mostly i'm a puppy you're sexy boss me around please i want you to You can be what you want with me What you want is what i want you to tell me to boss you around sitting in the back of the not room enough for me to turn around and get the fuck away from their stupid interrogations it's been hours or 5 years no reunion that implies a thing that never existed something that never existed hey you're sexy come here and boss me around chain me to the bed now unchain me from the bed it's what we choose to say, and how certain things are said And what we choose to say, and how certain things are said
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oh yeah and i forgot, want a boyfriend? I'm open and got a huge cok. it's pink with veins and it's shaved almost to the bone. the tip is perfect 4 u dykes.