"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 don't know but I got told, that if I'm sad, heart in the cold
There only the one bran of emotions
And if I don't quite look the part,
You'll tell me not to even start
So fuck you and your fuckin' emo band
Now I'm all for identity
The desperate need for a place to be
Understood well, feeling loved
But mixing exclusivity
That's three parts you and no parts we
Now your ego's getting out hand
Like Jesus at a show, I don't wanna know
Never stretched a helping hand
So fuck you and your fuckin' emo band
I fear it won't take long till that hillsong
Reaches me somehow, but if there's thing I despise
It's being fed those right wing lies
So fuck you and your fuckin' Christian band
I think it's cool they're not on drugs
The moral grounding and the hugs
And being friends with some god's son
But when no-one questions anything,
Use the word for financial gain
Then somethings gotten way out of hand
Like Jesus at a show, I don't wanna know
"never build your house on sand"
And fuck you and your fuckin' Christian band
Emotions have been sold
It's only Rock and Roll
You're no better than your fans
Fuck you and your fuckin' emo
Faith is in some dodgy hands
Fuck you and your fuckin' Christian
If this is too hard on you,my band's fuckin' stupid too
Fuck you and your fuckin' punk rock, retro,
Indie cock rock stupid band...
There only the one bran of emotions
And if I don't quite look the part,
You'll tell me not to even start
So fuck you and your fuckin' emo band
Now I'm all for identity
The desperate need for a place to be
Understood well, feeling loved
But mixing exclusivity
That's three parts you and no parts we
Now your ego's getting out hand
Like Jesus at a show, I don't wanna know
Never stretched a helping hand
So fuck you and your fuckin' emo band
I fear it won't take long till that hillsong
Reaches me somehow, but if there's thing I despise
It's being fed those right wing lies
So fuck you and your fuckin' Christian band
I think it's cool they're not on drugs
The moral grounding and the hugs
And being friends with some god's son
But when no-one questions anything,
Use the word for financial gain
Then somethings gotten way out of hand
Like Jesus at a show, I don't wanna know
"never build your house on sand"
And fuck you and your fuckin' Christian band
Emotions have been sold
It's only Rock and Roll
You're no better than your fans
Fuck you and your fuckin' emo
Faith is in some dodgy hands
Fuck you and your fuckin' Christian
If this is too hard on you,my band's fuckin' stupid too
Fuck you and your fuckin' punk rock, retro,
Indie cock rock stupid band...
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Tis the season to be jealous Sold out country, right of passage Behold the first world, entertain me Mass sedation, the stench of bullshit
Whose God unites red, white, and black? Not the one on channel two So much left to lose, prognosis
Sleep in anger, rise in petrol Distant pain of system failure
But there is no conspiracy, a total world control So much left to lose, right to be abused Prognosis, fuck
Whose God Unites red, white, and black? Not the one on channel two So much left to lose, right to be abused Nothing left to choose Prognosis, fuck you