"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)
Put me on public display and showcase
So there's an equal opportunity for everyone to hate me
I know you think it's a lie and it's a scam
Fuck the music, fuck the time, and fuck who I am
From where I stand
We digest shit like flies on trashcans
Overseers of the east revive wanting pentagrams
Time to open your mind
The possess by the rhymers eventually how they wind up
Damage, innocence isn't a friend
So it's hard to overlook and pretend where it all started
Half-hearted and semi-skilled
Still today unfuckwithable and unreal
Unbearable and unheard
Unmentioned and disrespected
I'm on levels and just worth
Subtract doesn't rob us of our confidence
But obstacles and booby traps are hateration nonsense
(Chorus)
Now on the other end of this microphone
Is the problems of a man whose mind is far gone
And on the other side of the speaker spark
Is a nation that don't give a fuck! (You think we don't care?)
Now on the other end of the raps we spit
You can see that we don't give a shit (I think you don't care?)
And on the other side of the music we play
I question if you still relate (Can you, can you relate?)
(Monoxide Child)
Now I been both parted and spit on
Laughed at and hit on
You never had a clue that you were fucking with a time bomb
Now people see me on the streets and wanna talk
But when I lived right down the block though it was never worth the walk
And I ain't gotta talk, all I had to do was sit and listen
Home in the dark hile you hope that I diminish
And when I fish the judge will give me 20 years flat
Cause I went up in the studio and murdered the track
You got me pissed off and angry, you thought this would change me?
You gotta come better than that, I ain't afraid see
Your pitt bulls are dead and whe're the only dogs left instead
To rightfully guide the mis-lead
It's been 10 long years and all my blood, sweat, and tears
It's the reason I'm standing right here
Willing to die for mine, blinded by the shadows of crooks
Another day another page in the book
(Chorus)
Are you ready? (Ready)
Seeing for who we are we ain't have no worries right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Do you relate to the paint and what we're saying in the music that you claim to hear
Ready
Seeing for who we are we ain't have no worries right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Do you relate to the paint and what we're saying in the music that you claim to hear
Ready
See us for who we are, we ain't hiding no more, we right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Put me on public display and showcase
So there's an equal opportunity for everyone to hate me
I know you think it's a lie and it's a scam
Fuck the music, fuck the time, and fuck who I am
From where I stand
We digest shit like flies on trashcans
Overseers of the east revive wanting pentagrams
Time to open your mind
The possess by the rhymers eventually how they wind up
Damage, innocence isn't a friend
So it's hard to overlook and pretend where it all started
Half-hearted and semi-skilled
Still today unfuckwithable and unreal
Unbearable and unheard
Unmentioned and disrespected
I'm on levels and just worth
Subtract doesn't rob us of our confidence
But obstacles and booby traps are hateration nonsense
(Chorus)
Now on the other end of this microphone
Is the problems of a man whose mind is far gone
And on the other side of the speaker spark
Is a nation that don't give a fuck! (You think we don't care?)
Now on the other end of the raps we spit
You can see that we don't give a shit (I think you don't care?)
And on the other side of the music we play
I question if you still relate (Can you, can you relate?)
(Monoxide Child)
Now I been both parted and spit on
Laughed at and hit on
You never had a clue that you were fucking with a time bomb
Now people see me on the streets and wanna talk
But when I lived right down the block though it was never worth the walk
And I ain't gotta talk, all I had to do was sit and listen
Home in the dark hile you hope that I diminish
And when I fish the judge will give me 20 years flat
Cause I went up in the studio and murdered the track
You got me pissed off and angry, you thought this would change me?
You gotta come better than that, I ain't afraid see
Your pitt bulls are dead and whe're the only dogs left instead
To rightfully guide the mis-lead
It's been 10 long years and all my blood, sweat, and tears
It's the reason I'm standing right here
Willing to die for mine, blinded by the shadows of crooks
Another day another page in the book
(Chorus)
Are you ready? (Ready)
Seeing for who we are we ain't have no worries right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Do you relate to the paint and what we're saying in the music that you claim to hear
Ready
Seeing for who we are we ain't have no worries right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Do you relate to the paint and what we're saying in the music that you claim to hear
Ready
See us for who we are, we ain't hiding no more, we right here
Are you ready? (Ready)
Lyrics submitted by MyAntiDrugIsSuicide
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