"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.
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
They hear what I hear
Watching through my eyes
They don't like what they see
Reptiles and Samurai
Are under my skin
They hide in my mind
They speak with my tongue
They run amuck in my terrain
They are not friends
But they are forced reluctantly
To share my brain
Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes shiny teeth some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious pretty swords very clever
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
Reptiles have pretty scales
They run real fast they like to bite some have tails
Samurai like their water hot
Very brave they eat raw fish they fight a lot
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
They hear what I hear
Watching through my eyes
They don't like what they see
Reptiles and Samurai
Are under my skin
They hide in my mind
They speak with my tongue
They run amuck in my terrain
They are not friends
But they are forced reluctantly
To share my brain
Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes shiny teeth some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious pretty swords very clever
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
Reptiles have pretty scales
They run real fast they like to bite some have tails
Samurai like their water hot
Very brave they eat raw fish they fight a lot
Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurais and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Lyrics submitted by r0cketbabyd0ll, edited by tgregorz
Reptiles and Samurai Lyrics as written by Danny Elfman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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