"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.
What makes you feel
And why you gotta be
Like you got the right
To look her up and down
What makes this world
So sick and evil
I know you don't know
What makes you feel
Like you got whip appeal
Who made you the judge and jury
Ain't you never heard of privacy
What makes this world
So sick and evil
You figure it out
And why you gotta be
Like you got the right
To look her up and down
What makes this world
So sick and evil
I know you don't know
What makes you feel
Like you got whip appeal
Who made you the judge and jury
Ain't you never heard of privacy
What makes this world
So sick and evil
You figure it out
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Song for the Man Lyrics as written by Adam Nathaniel Yauch Adam Horovitz
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i cant remeber which one of them wrote this i think it may have been adrock. well anyway whoever which one of them it was, was sitting on a train and there was this girl like across from him and there were these two guys making wierd sounds at her, like trying to flirt with her or something, and she started getting really annoyed and then they kept doing it. anyway, she got off at the next station and after she left the two guys started "Grading" her on how good she was (who made you the judge and jury).
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I thought everyone graded women, meh.
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Believe it, or not: No. Not everyone grades women. Try listening to it again someday when you've finally grown tired of reading Maxim magazine & watching The Jersey Shore.