"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.
Tilo - Power to the positive people please push your panic buttons
stop the press its those hypocritical judge and condeming preached
with pens behind the desk
Tommy Lee - We protest against their negative stress, time time
time to get that shit off our chest. I know that violence
dont fix drama, if you wanna have that good karma go ask your
mama! Did you Uncover your third eye?
Tilo - Yeah! and utilized my mental telepathy to get them away
from T-Lee and the rest of the posse
Tommy Lee - Click click camera flash freeze frame a time
from the past or if i had a gat i probably would blast
but livin' life like that probably would not last
Tilo - cause somebody one day onto them leave you left
deep in the ground your last tour date in a casket
with quadro sound's
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
Tilo - The snitches the bitches be takin advantages
of the chances that they be giving confidentiality
t-bone gave a brotha love and he turned that
shit into 10 g's
Tommy Lee - And now its he who sails the seven
seas left us in the studio trackin our tracks
and were getting freaky-o paparazzi got a
satellite 24-7 on my home-o, Uh-oh with a
direct line that goes directly live to the
tonight show. where they prep like chefs
cuttin and choppin with their fake ass voice-o's
Tilo - YEAH, and supporting a low life sucka who stole
a video tape of my brotha and his wife without they clothes
Tommy lee - Now they pack that shit in the publics nose but,
ironically my fellow peeps burn the trash up at our shows
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO KEEPS FEEDING US ETHNIC SEPERATION..TAX
LEVELS N LEVELS OF OCCUPATION WERE ALL
SIGNIFICANT PARTS IN THIS UNIVERSAL CREATION!!
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
Tilo - See we sick and tired of they tricks we use in voodoo on
the whole rag-mag click and that hardcopy. shit here were
gonna give-em a real topic for the new millenium REAL QUICK!
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
stop the press its those hypocritical judge and condeming preached
with pens behind the desk
Tommy Lee - We protest against their negative stress, time time
time to get that shit off our chest. I know that violence
dont fix drama, if you wanna have that good karma go ask your
mama! Did you Uncover your third eye?
Tilo - Yeah! and utilized my mental telepathy to get them away
from T-Lee and the rest of the posse
Tommy Lee - Click click camera flash freeze frame a time
from the past or if i had a gat i probably would blast
but livin' life like that probably would not last
Tilo - cause somebody one day onto them leave you left
deep in the ground your last tour date in a casket
with quadro sound's
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
Tilo - The snitches the bitches be takin advantages
of the chances that they be giving confidentiality
t-bone gave a brotha love and he turned that
shit into 10 g's
Tommy Lee - And now its he who sails the seven
seas left us in the studio trackin our tracks
and were getting freaky-o paparazzi got a
satellite 24-7 on my home-o, Uh-oh with a
direct line that goes directly live to the
tonight show. where they prep like chefs
cuttin and choppin with their fake ass voice-o's
Tilo - YEAH, and supporting a low life sucka who stole
a video tape of my brotha and his wife without they clothes
Tommy lee - Now they pack that shit in the publics nose but,
ironically my fellow peeps burn the trash up at our shows
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO KEEPS FEEDING US ETHNIC SEPERATION..TAX
LEVELS N LEVELS OF OCCUPATION WERE ALL
SIGNIFICANT PARTS IN THIS UNIVERSAL CREATION!!
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
Tilo - See we sick and tired of they tricks we use in voodoo on
the whole rag-mag click and that hardcopy. shit here were
gonna give-em a real topic for the new millenium REAL QUICK!
WHO SETS THE STANDARDS?
WHO SETS THE LINES?
WHO YOU? OR DO THEY RULE YER MINDS?
Lyrics submitted by Ice
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