"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.
It's not for kicks, it's not for fame It's not the power of your name that matters It's the things we say - so put your fucking egos away. I'm bored with rock, I'm bored with roll I'm bored with being such an asshole I'm bored with parties, bored with you - and all the selfish things you do.
Preach to the converted - Heresy! Purpose perverted! What can we really say we do beside wow fourteen to twenty-two? I'd like to see us give a shit, take all our hate and then apply it. Don't just cry and rock and drink - TALK about the way you think.
I'm going to cure the boredom - I'm going to stop patting my own back. You're going to call me a sell-out, but I never bought in, So you can have it back. I'm sick of your grandstanding politics - I'd like to see you engage the enemy. Start worrying about your future - and stop pointing fingers at me.
We sit and cry, we sit and stare We sit and think about our hair. We sit and bullshit, sit and talk. We sit bacuse we won't walk the walk. We sit around - We say "don't give up." So busy sitting - When will we stand up?
No defeat through loss! Persistence - at any cost!
It's that moment that boils my blood - It's the chaos and spite in the air. Nothing can stop us when we're in that moment - The riots could erupt and I'd be right there. I'm in that moment, right now. Let's find the ivory tower, and burn it down! You never thought it could happen in your town... The revolution starts/stops on this day... Just another voice on the radical circuit, Talking all that bullshit about making change.
Preach to the converted - Heresy! Purpose perverted! What can we really say we do beside wow fourteen to twenty-two? I'd like to see us give a shit, take all our hate and then apply it. Don't just cry and rock and drink - TALK about the way you think.
I'm going to cure the boredom - I'm going to stop patting my own back. You're going to call me a sell-out, but I never bought in, So you can have it back. I'm sick of your grandstanding politics - I'd like to see you engage the enemy. Start worrying about your future - and stop pointing fingers at me.
We sit and cry, we sit and stare We sit and think about our hair. We sit and bullshit, sit and talk. We sit bacuse we won't walk the walk. We sit around - We say "don't give up." So busy sitting - When will we stand up?
No defeat through loss! Persistence - at any cost!
It's that moment that boils my blood - It's the chaos and spite in the air. Nothing can stop us when we're in that moment - The riots could erupt and I'd be right there. I'm in that moment, right now. Let's find the ivory tower, and burn it down! You never thought it could happen in your town... The revolution starts/stops on this day... Just another voice on the radical circuit, Talking all that bullshit about making change.
Lyrics submitted by amandemo
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