"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.
Luci in the Sky with Demons
i'll spread me open
stuck to my ribs
are all your infants in abortion cribs
you run like roaches and
you try to die
i know your poison
in our space we'll lie
to an obscene god we will dance and spit
the skin is thin, in our beds we sit
we take off our rings and we kneel
our scabbed knees are so slow to heal
stretch a little boy hole for looking-glass people
i don't want to be me
i don't want to fear, no
mama's got a scarecrow
got to let the corn grow
a man can't always reap what he sows
cut, cut, cut in pantomime, mime, mime
i'll be your devil if you'll admit you're mine
leave yourself to be ultra-here
the chill of fall is always crawling near
spiders in the flowers never know their smell
the barbers here know secrets they will never tell
cut, cut, cut in pantomime, mime, mime
i'll be your devil if you'll admit you're mine
i'll spread me open
stuck to my ribs
are all your infants in abortion cribs
you run like roaches and
you try to die
i know your poison
in our space we'll lie
to an obscene god we will dance and spit
the skin is thin, in our beds we sit
we take off our rings and we kneel
our scabbed knees are so slow to heal
stretch a little boy hole for looking-glass people
i don't want to be me
i don't want to fear, no
mama's got a scarecrow
got to let the corn grow
a man can't always reap what he sows
cut, cut, cut in pantomime, mime, mime
i'll be your devil if you'll admit you're mine
leave yourself to be ultra-here
the chill of fall is always crawling near
spiders in the flowers never know their smell
the barbers here know secrets they will never tell
cut, cut, cut in pantomime, mime, mime
i'll be your devil if you'll admit you're mine
Lyrics submitted by manson_spookykids
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