"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.
I'm gonna knock down every wall (I find)
Gonna spit out bullets
Gonna be a hero (the super kind)
Can you dig it?
'Cause someone needs to clean things up
Before things get much worse
And if I could I'd be the one
'Cause I want to be
Yeah I want to be
Yeah I want to be like superman
But I can't seem to fly
Now life can be a drag sometimes
No matter how hard you smile
People pushing drugs, they're looting and killing
Those are roads I won't go down
I'm looking for some common ground
Or at least a rock so I won't drown
And if I could I'd be the one
'Cause I want to be
Yeah I want to be
Yeah I want to be like superman
But its all in my mind
Can you dig it?
Who's gonna be the one to take
All the assholes us humans make?
I'm not gonna be the one to save you
When you don't even give a fuck
Wish I could be like superman
But all you can do is try to fly
Gonna spit out bullets
Gonna be a hero (the super kind)
Can you dig it?
'Cause someone needs to clean things up
Before things get much worse
And if I could I'd be the one
'Cause I want to be
Yeah I want to be
Yeah I want to be like superman
But I can't seem to fly
Now life can be a drag sometimes
No matter how hard you smile
People pushing drugs, they're looting and killing
Those are roads I won't go down
I'm looking for some common ground
Or at least a rock so I won't drown
And if I could I'd be the one
'Cause I want to be
Yeah I want to be
Yeah I want to be like superman
But its all in my mind
Can you dig it?
Who's gonna be the one to take
All the assholes us humans make?
I'm not gonna be the one to save you
When you don't even give a fuck
Wish I could be like superman
But all you can do is try to fly
Lyrics submitted by ThECr4cKFa1rY
Superman Lyrics as written by Dave Smalley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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