"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.
Got a deadly toy
To brainwash your boy
An egocentric muscle thug
Kicks butt on screen like a brat out a hell
Bullshitter in the Indochina shop
Pull the string in his back, we win the war
That we never should have started at all
A cabbage patch terrorist to call our own
Who rewrites history with a machine gun
Don't think about it-kill it
That's what we teach your child
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the clown
To draft age kids
It sure looks like fun-
"kill 'em all
And let god sort 'em out."
Like video games-no mess
Just fuel for a mass lapse of common sense
You can be don Quixote
We'll dice you with our windmill blades
Brawn over brain
Means a happy ending
G.i. Joe in the cereal bowl
Grey shrapnel-flavored chewing gum
Mass murder ain't just painless
Now we've made it cute
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the clown
War is sexy
War is fun
Iron ego
Red dawn
Be a wolverine. you'll rule the hills
Just get some guns and cheerios
Any kid can conquer Libya
Just steal a fighter plane
Look who came home in a wheelchair
V.a. hospital, they don't care
"we're the machine
You're just a tool."
Who fell for the myth of Rambozo the clown
To brainwash your boy
An egocentric muscle thug
Kicks butt on screen like a brat out a hell
Bullshitter in the Indochina shop
Pull the string in his back, we win the war
That we never should have started at all
A cabbage patch terrorist to call our own
Who rewrites history with a machine gun
Don't think about it-kill it
That's what we teach your child
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the clown
To draft age kids
It sure looks like fun-
"kill 'em all
And let god sort 'em out."
Like video games-no mess
Just fuel for a mass lapse of common sense
You can be don Quixote
We'll dice you with our windmill blades
Brawn over brain
Means a happy ending
G.i. Joe in the cereal bowl
Grey shrapnel-flavored chewing gum
Mass murder ain't just painless
Now we've made it cute
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the clown
War is sexy
War is fun
Iron ego
Red dawn
Be a wolverine. you'll rule the hills
Just get some guns and cheerios
Any kid can conquer Libya
Just steal a fighter plane
Look who came home in a wheelchair
V.a. hospital, they don't care
"we're the machine
You're just a tool."
Who fell for the myth of Rambozo the clown
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