"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.
Buzzbomb Buzzbomb, macho-mobile
The road's my slave, that's how I feel
I cruise alone, I cruise real far
I don't love you, I love my car
(Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh)
(Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh)
Cross Nevada at a hundred-and-ten
Highway 50 and there's nobody there
Sign says, "next sign thirty miles"
I work all week, each penny saved buys more escape from home
I'd rather cruise around all day than save up for a move
Plow through rest area San-O-Lets
Splat, goes the lonely salesman
Wanking in the men's room
Buzzbomb Buzzbomb, tape up loud
Blue piss clinging to my windshield
Faster, faster in my car
Buzzbomb is my pride and joy, king of the trailer court
Waiting for the perfect chick, who'll love me for my car
I tell her why I'm cool
She coos back, just what I like
When I pretend she's near
Zip through Ely where Pat Nixon was born
The cops 'round here sure looking bored
Flashing sirens, state patrol
They're scratching up my gorgeous paint job, shooting out my tires
Ain't no way to go to heaven
Buzzbomb cornered at the 7-11
Aw
Ooh
Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee
The road's my slave, that's how I feel
I cruise alone, I cruise real far
I don't love you, I love my car
(Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh)
(Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh)
Cross Nevada at a hundred-and-ten
Highway 50 and there's nobody there
Sign says, "next sign thirty miles"
I work all week, each penny saved buys more escape from home
I'd rather cruise around all day than save up for a move
Plow through rest area San-O-Lets
Splat, goes the lonely salesman
Wanking in the men's room
Buzzbomb Buzzbomb, tape up loud
Blue piss clinging to my windshield
Faster, faster in my car
Buzzbomb is my pride and joy, king of the trailer court
Waiting for the perfect chick, who'll love me for my car
I tell her why I'm cool
She coos back, just what I like
When I pretend she's near
Zip through Ely where Pat Nixon was born
The cops 'round here sure looking bored
Flashing sirens, state patrol
They're scratching up my gorgeous paint job, shooting out my tires
Ain't no way to go to heaven
Buzzbomb cornered at the 7-11
Aw
Ooh
Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee
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HOW CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT COMMENT? THIS SONG IS FUCKIN HILLARIOUS! That part at the very end, it's not in the lyrics up there, but the say "Let go of me mother fucker! I wanna live by my rules!" Those are true words to live by!
It's a slightly different version you are thinking of.... You are thinking of Buzzbomb from Pasadena which is written from an old lady point-of-view.. Equally funny tho.
Great song, but "Buzzbomb From Pasedena" is funnier (as that how you spell it?) "Lawrence Whelk cranked up to 10!!!"
People live unfulfilled lives, which leads them to focus their attentions on the wrong things, such as cars, which leads to negative consequences.
Lol the granny sounds like Cartman in the "let go of me motherfucker" line, but aside from that, I like the original Buzzbomb better.
I tried to submit "Buzzbomb From Pasadena" about three times, but it never showed up on the page.
Stupid fucking administrators.