"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.
(Hey)
Hey, listen don't you let 'em get your mind
Fill your brain with orders and that's not right
They're playing at a game that draws you closer
'Til you're living in a world that's ruled by fear
Always takin' baby out that's ok
What they're givin' maybe it's out of phase with me
Told you once you're never gonna win the race
Same old no tomorrow kicked in the face
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Tie a blindfold all around your head
Spin you 'round in the torture before the dread
And then you're pushed and shoved into every corner
Then they lead you out into the final slaughter
As the sweat is running, down your neck
All your praying for's to stop your body breakin' up
Oh, your heart is pumping gonna soon explode
Got to fight the horror of this mental load
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
So you wait it out and bide your time
Rip off that straight jacket, gotta break that line
Everyone who makes it in the great escape
Leaves a thousand more who suffer in their wake
I don't talk about it but that's alright
Table's turned now there's a revenge in sight
Takes forever, babe, I tell ya I can wait
Send them screaming back through their hell's own gate
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Screaming
Screaming vengeance (vengeance)
Screaming vengeance (vengeance)
Screaming
Hey, listen don't you let 'em get your mind
Fill your brain with orders and that's not right
They're playing at a game that draws you closer
'Til you're living in a world that's ruled by fear
Always takin' baby out that's ok
What they're givin' maybe it's out of phase with me
Told you once you're never gonna win the race
Same old no tomorrow kicked in the face
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Tie a blindfold all around your head
Spin you 'round in the torture before the dread
And then you're pushed and shoved into every corner
Then they lead you out into the final slaughter
As the sweat is running, down your neck
All your praying for's to stop your body breakin' up
Oh, your heart is pumping gonna soon explode
Got to fight the horror of this mental load
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
So you wait it out and bide your time
Rip off that straight jacket, gotta break that line
Everyone who makes it in the great escape
Leaves a thousand more who suffer in their wake
I don't talk about it but that's alright
Table's turned now there's a revenge in sight
Takes forever, babe, I tell ya I can wait
Send them screaming back through their hell's own gate
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Screaming
Screaming vengeance (vengeance)
Screaming vengeance (vengeance)
Screaming
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....umm, except not caring about a song's meaning the most comon way for people to hate a particular singer or band - they take the music as it is, or interpret it wrong - and consider it worthless. Not caring about meaning is also a good way of getting little kids singing Spears crap.
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I agree, it rocks!!
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAMING! I love it. dont care wat its about really.