"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.
Come on! Hey! Don't
Tell us what you want,'cause we don't
Give a fuck about you and your kind
You! You better take a step back where ever
The fuck you came from
No! You ain't one of us and to be tag along
You're too ugly and blunt
Why? Is it so hard to get that we don't
Need you, stupid cunt!
If you don't know how to resent one another
To gain the new way of power,
It'll get to the point where no one gives a fuck
What you may think of us or what you may not
Stop! Are you ever gonna stop tryin' to be
On the way that we want to go?
Fuck! It's pissing the fuck out of us when
You don't understand the word, no
Now, you're tellin' that you'll win the
War that's only battled 'cause you're
Too dumb to die, That's right!
You can take your war and shove it up your
Ass, then close your eyes and say goodbye
If you don't know how to resent one another
To gain the new way of power
It'll get to the point where no one gives a fuck
What you may think of us or what you may not
We're hate crew, we stand and we won't fall
We're all for none and none for all
Fuck you! We'll fight til' the last hit
And we sure as hell ain't taking no shit
Tell us what you want,'cause we don't
Give a fuck about you and your kind
You! You better take a step back where ever
The fuck you came from
No! You ain't one of us and to be tag along
You're too ugly and blunt
Why? Is it so hard to get that we don't
Need you, stupid cunt!
If you don't know how to resent one another
To gain the new way of power,
It'll get to the point where no one gives a fuck
What you may think of us or what you may not
Stop! Are you ever gonna stop tryin' to be
On the way that we want to go?
Fuck! It's pissing the fuck out of us when
You don't understand the word, no
Now, you're tellin' that you'll win the
War that's only battled 'cause you're
Too dumb to die, That's right!
You can take your war and shove it up your
Ass, then close your eyes and say goodbye
If you don't know how to resent one another
To gain the new way of power
It'll get to the point where no one gives a fuck
What you may think of us or what you may not
We're hate crew, we stand and we won't fall
We're all for none and none for all
Fuck you! We'll fight til' the last hit
And we sure as hell ain't taking no shit
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