"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.
Sunset, behind a chain link fence
You put that tiny candle in my hand
You put that chrism on my forehead
With your fingers crossed
You held my wrists
And I'll never forget that pebble pushing up into my knee
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And all the kids in the playground waiting for the light up
You said the sky's the sign
You said the sky's the sign
And I was watching the blue in your eyes turn fire
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I didn't like it
I was excited by it
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window, I'm at the door
Oooh, oooh, oooh
And (I, my) one the black top (lie, aie) and on the jungle gym (why, cry, I've got no piece of mind) and (I got no peace) on the four-square courts you gave me a fear of (I'm gonne blow your mind and) my skin, a desiring (I'm gonna blow your mind) to feel the sun rising in between my knees
Why try, feel my, I got no peace of mind
And I got no peace of mind
And I got no peace of mind
And all I can feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I'm 16, driving south from Baltimore
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window
I'm at the door
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
There's something on the ceiling
My feet aren't on the floor
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
My feet aren't on the floor
There's something on the ceiling
I didn't like it
I was excited by it
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window, I'm out the door
Sunset, behind a chain link fence
You put that tiny candle in my hand
You put that chrism on my forehead
With your fingers crossed
You held my wrists
And I'll never forget that pebble pushing up into my knee
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And all the kids in the playground waiting for the light up
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
Do you fear for your child?
This will stay with me until I die!
And all the kids (boys) in the four-square courts
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I hated (wanted) them then them more!
A loneliness no fag could comprehend
You put that tiny candle in my hand
You put that chrism on my forehead
With your fingers crossed
You held my wrists
And I'll never forget that pebble pushing up into my knee
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And all the kids in the playground waiting for the light up
You said the sky's the sign
You said the sky's the sign
And I was watching the blue in your eyes turn fire
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I didn't like it
I was excited by it
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window, I'm at the door
Oooh, oooh, oooh
And (I, my) one the black top (lie, aie) and on the jungle gym (why, cry, I've got no piece of mind) and (I got no peace) on the four-square courts you gave me a fear of (I'm gonne blow your mind and) my skin, a desiring (I'm gonna blow your mind) to feel the sun rising in between my knees
Why try, feel my, I got no peace of mind
And I got no peace of mind
And I got no peace of mind
And all I can feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I'm 16, driving south from Baltimore
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window
I'm at the door
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
There's something on the ceiling
My feet aren't on the floor
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
My feet aren't on the floor
There's something on the ceiling
I didn't like it
I was excited by it
What will I say when I get home?
I'm in the window, I'm out the door
Sunset, behind a chain link fence
You put that tiny candle in my hand
You put that chrism on my forehead
With your fingers crossed
You held my wrists
And I'll never forget that pebble pushing up into my knee
You said the sky'd light up
You said the sky'd light up
And all the kids in the playground waiting for the light up
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
Do you fear for your child?
This will stay with me until I die!
And all the kids (boys) in the four-square courts
All I feel anymore and all I can see anymore
I hated (wanted) them then them more!
A loneliness no fag could comprehend
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first of all one of these verses is wrong. It's:
On the four-square court, and on the jungle gym, and on the asphalt, you gave me, a fear of my skin, a desiring, to feel the sun rising in between my knees.
i'm sure this song has nothing to do with anal.
there's a lot of childhood imagery, playground what have you. It's got a lot to do with school girls, and adolescent desire.
"you gave me, a fear of my skin, a desiring, to feel the sun rising in between my knees"
whoever's singing this song isn't sure if they want to want.