"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.
The midnight moon is feeling high
She won't come down till the morning light
When opposite set scenery
Drapes unimpressed plasticine
Where cookies cut can play their games
Wear the shirts of price tag names
All the biggies selling fame
Can smell your blood yearning
(If that's what it costs)
Don't contest electric light
Come pull the cord kiss me goodnight
Bound in blood, dollar signs confirmed
Your eyes still hold the secret
Shut your eyes don't breathe so loud
It's just an episode
Shut your eyes don't talk to loud
It's just an episode
(If that's what it costs than)
(I am free)
If that's what it costs
Then I am free
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
You cut your fingernails like your soul
And if I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
A pretty penny now you paid your pride
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Would you feel it at all?
It all starts with a sound
And a firm embrace
The will to conspire
The need to suck-seed
Don't look down, now you're surrounded
Beady black eyes, lip licks shrouded
Heart's best constricted, foam-filled with plastic
Kiss, kiss luxury, head's getting clouded
See the sparkle of the heretic's scream
The green gleam and the four-legged fiend
A flick of fountains and the kings been hailed
Don't worry baby 'cause we're all for sale
If that's what it costs
If that's what it costs
Then I am free
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
You cut your fingernails like your soul
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
A pretty penny now you paid your pride
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
Dance around it
Around and around
(Don't stop now, feel it)
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
It surrounds, surrounds
She won't come down till the morning light
When opposite set scenery
Drapes unimpressed plasticine
Where cookies cut can play their games
Wear the shirts of price tag names
All the biggies selling fame
Can smell your blood yearning
(If that's what it costs)
Don't contest electric light
Come pull the cord kiss me goodnight
Bound in blood, dollar signs confirmed
Your eyes still hold the secret
Shut your eyes don't breathe so loud
It's just an episode
Shut your eyes don't talk to loud
It's just an episode
(If that's what it costs than)
(I am free)
If that's what it costs
Then I am free
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
You cut your fingernails like your soul
And if I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
A pretty penny now you paid your pride
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Would you feel it at all?
It all starts with a sound
And a firm embrace
The will to conspire
The need to suck-seed
Don't look down, now you're surrounded
Beady black eyes, lip licks shrouded
Heart's best constricted, foam-filled with plastic
Kiss, kiss luxury, head's getting clouded
See the sparkle of the heretic's scream
The green gleam and the four-legged fiend
A flick of fountains and the kings been hailed
Don't worry baby 'cause we're all for sale
If that's what it costs
If that's what it costs
Then I am free
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
You cut your fingernails like your soul
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
Doesn't this just smell familiar?
A pretty penny now you paid your pride
If I ripped your heart right from you
Would you feel it? Would you feel it at all?
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
Dance around it
Around and around
(Don't stop now, feel it)
It surrounds, surrounds
We all like to dance around it
It surrounds, surrounds
Lyrics submitted by MizunoPunk
Dinna-Dawg (And the Inevitable Onset of Lunacy) Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I think that the first commenter is mostly right, but they're missing out something key. The song is about pimping and prostitution and how it's a byproduct of our modern consumer lifestyle. It's about how the capitalist system is corrupting everything.
The bridge, starting with "It all starts with a sound/And a firm embrace/The will to conspire/The will to suck-seed," is probably the biggest tip-off. From there they get pretty explicit about the sexual nature of this "will to conspire," as the lines build to the big reveal "The green gleam and the four-legged fiend/A flick of fountain and the King's been hailed/Don't worry baby 'cause we're all for sale."
The other lines "if I ripped your heart right from you, would you feel it?/Would you feel it at all," are probably about the pimp, or maybe the dehumanizing nature of the sex trade.