"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.
(((backwards text in ((()))'s...)))
play that record backwards
here's a message yo' for the suckas
play that record backards
[and go fuck yourself]
play that record backwards
its a message from awwwwwww
play that record backwards
and go go go go go go
kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill.. yourself
hate and devour the young and the weaker ones
and dont forget the guns
[you're gonna need em to go kill yourself]
hate all the people you love in a river of blood
and dont forget the guns
you're gonna need em to
destroy
always destroy
always destroy
always destroy, yourself
yourself
destroy yourself if you don't get what you want
hate all the people you love in a river of blood
and don't forget to go go go go go go
kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill... yourself
hate all people you love in a river of blood
and dont forget the guns
you're gonna need em to
destroy always
destroy always
destroy always
destroy yourself
yourself
destroy yourself if you don't get what you want
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
(((clean your room)))
(((do your homework)))
(((don't stay out too late)))
(((eat your vegetables)))
(((put away your toys)))
(((don't sit too close to the TV)))
(((get dressed for church)))
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
(((don't listen to this song)))
play that record backwards
here's a message yo' for the suckas
play that record backards
[and go fuck yourself]
play that record backwards
its a message from awwwwwww
play that record backwards
and go go go go go go
kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill.. yourself
hate and devour the young and the weaker ones
and dont forget the guns
[you're gonna need em to go kill yourself]
hate all the people you love in a river of blood
and dont forget the guns
you're gonna need em to
destroy
always destroy
always destroy
always destroy, yourself
yourself
destroy yourself if you don't get what you want
hate all the people you love in a river of blood
and don't forget to go go go go go go
kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill yourself
mutha fucka go kill... yourself
hate all people you love in a river of blood
and dont forget the guns
you're gonna need em to
destroy always
destroy always
destroy always
destroy yourself
yourself
destroy yourself if you don't get what you want
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
you're gonna really need em'
(((clean your room)))
(((do your homework)))
(((don't stay out too late)))
(((eat your vegetables)))
(((put away your toys)))
(((don't sit too close to the TV)))
(((get dressed for church)))
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
kill yourself because you dont get what you want
(((don't listen to this song)))
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It's making fun of all of the fuss conservative Christians have made over the years about messages on records which will tell you to kill yourself if you play them backwards, and the people said it was subliminally telling the kids to do that when played forwards.. I don't believe any rock artists actually ever recorded messages like this before the idea was spread around by the conservatives, either. This song ironically switches it, with the actual song telling you to kill yourself, where if you play it backwards it gives you so-called "wholesome" messages.