"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.
宇宙に浮かぶ惑星"PLANET 01#"で
今日は FUNKTURNIZED
DRYER LIGHTS の exhibition,
急いで行こう! My timeマシーンで
時を飛び越えて
Tei家で寄り道してたら(mars)
窓の外に woo, 虹色の地球!?
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ トリップしようよ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
ぶっ飛んでるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, peace な心で
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
Global Astro,
vehicle on the way to Pluto
see me in the cockpit,
my afro is rainbow
spandex swim cap,
for whiplash protection
when we swing past,
billboards written in dingbat
meteorite bike fiends, on
Harleys going at light speed
forget sight-seeing,
interplanetary pirates
get feisty
when I insert the disc,
I mean serious business
elicit ecstatic responses
from mister and misses
it's like
I've been living for ages,
devastatin stages after stages
occupy floor spaces,
with beings from all races
even nutcases, I'm old school
blast the stereo with
Stetsasonic, watching Jetsons
with my Panasonic
prototype TV, monochrome, baby
manifesting the incandescent,
into the triple darkness
boob tube filaments,
shooting into the 7th galaxy
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ 想像の場所へ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
はじけてるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, 愛を信じて!
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
Hit プリズム. com,
飛び出すネオ butterflies
you can synchronize and
crystallize, retro vision
Scroll しつつ seek information
This dub is freaky freaky,
making party people steamy
re-boot the system,
start the extraspection
celestial retro-resurrection,
infectious optical illusion
patterned and dated selection,
it's classic not suitable
for the ignorant masses,
I pass them with this ride,
it's fly octane,
deranged form and figure
aeronautic features to beat ya,
rag-top with bleachers
so everybody can hop in
planet to planet baby,
poly-urethane burning asteroids
probing earth like Yuri Gagarin,
sonic shots bring mannequins
back to life like Lazarus
forget diamonds I bring you
a 100 karat meteorite
extraordinaire,
got a asterisk next to my name
on your black list
I'm feeling right,
sippin coffee through a nozzle,
custom-made by NASA
put mustard on my Kielbasa,
watching Farrah Fawcett
on my electronic
three hundred sixty
planetarium screen
いくつもの扉を開いていけばそこに
いつか忘れていた woo 世界がある
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ トリップしようよ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
ぶっ飛んでるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, yeah, yeah,...
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
今日は FUNKTURNIZED
DRYER LIGHTS の exhibition,
急いで行こう! My timeマシーンで
時を飛び越えて
Tei家で寄り道してたら(mars)
窓の外に woo, 虹色の地球!?
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ トリップしようよ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
ぶっ飛んでるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, peace な心で
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
Global Astro,
vehicle on the way to Pluto
see me in the cockpit,
my afro is rainbow
spandex swim cap,
for whiplash protection
when we swing past,
billboards written in dingbat
meteorite bike fiends, on
Harleys going at light speed
forget sight-seeing,
interplanetary pirates
get feisty
when I insert the disc,
I mean serious business
elicit ecstatic responses
from mister and misses
it's like
I've been living for ages,
devastatin stages after stages
occupy floor spaces,
with beings from all races
even nutcases, I'm old school
blast the stereo with
Stetsasonic, watching Jetsons
with my Panasonic
prototype TV, monochrome, baby
manifesting the incandescent,
into the triple darkness
boob tube filaments,
shooting into the 7th galaxy
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ 想像の場所へ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
はじけてるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, 愛を信じて!
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
Hit プリズム. com,
飛び出すネオ butterflies
you can synchronize and
crystallize, retro vision
Scroll しつつ seek information
This dub is freaky freaky,
making party people steamy
re-boot the system,
start the extraspection
celestial retro-resurrection,
infectious optical illusion
patterned and dated selection,
it's classic not suitable
for the ignorant masses,
I pass them with this ride,
it's fly octane,
deranged form and figure
aeronautic features to beat ya,
rag-top with bleachers
so everybody can hop in
planet to planet baby,
poly-urethane burning asteroids
probing earth like Yuri Gagarin,
sonic shots bring mannequins
back to life like Lazarus
forget diamonds I bring you
a 100 karat meteorite
extraordinaire,
got a asterisk next to my name
on your black list
I'm feeling right,
sippin coffee through a nozzle,
custom-made by NASA
put mustard on my Kielbasa,
watching Farrah Fawcett
on my electronic
three hundred sixty
planetarium screen
いくつもの扉を開いていけばそこに
いつか忘れていた woo 世界がある
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
ねぇ トリップしようよ!
Pluto people も C'mon let's go!
ぶっ飛んでるくらいが
ちょうどいいよ!
why don't we go!,
colorful world!,
beautiful world!
yeah, yeah, yeah,...
人生を楽しく生きよう! この瞬間を
gotta Live it like never before!
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