"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.
Un, dois, trêis, quatro,
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
"Who feels it, knows it"
(Bob Marley)
And God will guide me
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your bullshit
We're back to set it free
Confronting the negative
Back to the primitive
Fuck all you wannabes
You don't mean shit to me
Let it bleed
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
How it used to be
Check your reality
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Fuck all you wannabes
Argh!
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Forever we will be
What we want to be
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
"Who feels it, knows it"
(Bob Marley)
And God will guide me
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your bullshit
We're back to set it free
Confronting the negative
Back to the primitive
Fuck all you wannabes
You don't mean shit to me
Let it bleed
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
How it used to be
Check your reality
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Fuck all you wannabes
Argh!
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Forever we will be
What we want to be
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
(tribal)
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
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this song is excellent... definately one of the flys best... i agree with mindless about the meaning... its not that hard to work out...