"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.
[Jamie Madrox]
They the exact opposite from you ignorant, counterfeit
Normal motherfuckers so proud of the innocence
For ever in this bitch, fuckin' with the dead
With invisible X's in the middle of our foreheads
(What would you call us?) Actin' like you don't know
In the midst of the Twiztid Serial Killin' Juggalos
We stay different, I guess different minds think alike
We the children of the night
You don't want to fight (that's right)
'cause if it gets this way
There's goin' be more than feelin's hurt up in here tonight
That's what it's like when your fuckin' with us
And then you get fucked up and shit is, Oh, so serious
Don't even speak on us
Now I know, that everyone got their own personal reason for hatin' us
But I don't care bitch, shut the fuck up
Try strange, deranged, divine, and different
[Hook]x2
I'M DIFFERENT
I'm not like you
I'M DIFFERENT
I like fuckin' with voodoo
I'M DIFFERENT
I come from the darkside
I'M DIFFERENT
I've seen the dead come alive
[Monoxide Child]
Dispised by the rest of the world, 'cause of my axe
The freaked out raps, and the bugged ass contacts
Not normal, nothin' in comparison
Stop frontin' bitch, you's embarrisin' (HOE)
separated from the rest at birth
And the blood in my viens is cursed
I'm leavin' the Earth, represented by killas and juggalos
And all that don't know should die like some dumb hoes
My contingent mind state spreads quicker than the cold in most states
And I hope you both hate (HATER)
Can't stop what you can't see
I'm slippin' in through your backdoor, tyin' up your family
Unexpected, and unexplained
I'm underground, and I'M INSAAAAANE
People want to talk the talk, but I'mma walk the walk
And even chalk the chalk, bitch
[Hook]
[Monoxide Child]
I'm different like I never exsisted
Different like that 50 pack, smokin' bud toker from Twiztid
I'M DIFFERENT, like I'm segregated
No, hold up, fuck that, a better word is "Player Hated"
DIFFERENT, 'cause it's so for real
And if you fuck with weak shit, the axe I'll wield
I said DIFFERENT, you can see it in my soul
I'm different 'cause I'm Twiztid for life wit' juggalos
[Jamie Madrox]
We walk through walls, sleep with bats
Been to Heaven and Hell and still can't relax
I'M DIFFERENT, at least my mama called my strange
Said that I would be dangerous if I was given a brain
I'm a serial killa, that's what I amounted to be
And there's more than a thin line between you and me
I live behind the mirror and I'm every bad dream
So believe what you heard and see, because I'm different
[Hook] (till end)
They the exact opposite from you ignorant, counterfeit
Normal motherfuckers so proud of the innocence
For ever in this bitch, fuckin' with the dead
With invisible X's in the middle of our foreheads
(What would you call us?) Actin' like you don't know
In the midst of the Twiztid Serial Killin' Juggalos
We stay different, I guess different minds think alike
We the children of the night
You don't want to fight (that's right)
'cause if it gets this way
There's goin' be more than feelin's hurt up in here tonight
That's what it's like when your fuckin' with us
And then you get fucked up and shit is, Oh, so serious
Don't even speak on us
Now I know, that everyone got their own personal reason for hatin' us
But I don't care bitch, shut the fuck up
Try strange, deranged, divine, and different
[Hook]x2
I'M DIFFERENT
I'm not like you
I'M DIFFERENT
I like fuckin' with voodoo
I'M DIFFERENT
I come from the darkside
I'M DIFFERENT
I've seen the dead come alive
[Monoxide Child]
Dispised by the rest of the world, 'cause of my axe
The freaked out raps, and the bugged ass contacts
Not normal, nothin' in comparison
Stop frontin' bitch, you's embarrisin' (HOE)
separated from the rest at birth
And the blood in my viens is cursed
I'm leavin' the Earth, represented by killas and juggalos
And all that don't know should die like some dumb hoes
My contingent mind state spreads quicker than the cold in most states
And I hope you both hate (HATER)
Can't stop what you can't see
I'm slippin' in through your backdoor, tyin' up your family
Unexpected, and unexplained
I'm underground, and I'M INSAAAAANE
People want to talk the talk, but I'mma walk the walk
And even chalk the chalk, bitch
[Hook]
[Monoxide Child]
I'm different like I never exsisted
Different like that 50 pack, smokin' bud toker from Twiztid
I'M DIFFERENT, like I'm segregated
No, hold up, fuck that, a better word is "Player Hated"
DIFFERENT, 'cause it's so for real
And if you fuck with weak shit, the axe I'll wield
I said DIFFERENT, you can see it in my soul
I'm different 'cause I'm Twiztid for life wit' juggalos
[Jamie Madrox]
We walk through walls, sleep with bats
Been to Heaven and Hell and still can't relax
I'M DIFFERENT, at least my mama called my strange
Said that I would be dangerous if I was given a brain
I'm a serial killa, that's what I amounted to be
And there's more than a thin line between you and me
I live behind the mirror and I'm every bad dream
So believe what you heard and see, because I'm different
[Hook] (till end)
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