"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.
Fuck you all
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
And don't you fuckin judge me
Pain
You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
And don't you fuckin judge me
Pain
You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Surfacing Lyrics as written by Christopher Fehn Michael Crahan
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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