"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.
That Nadine, what a teenage queen.
She lookin' so clean, especi'lly down in between; what I like.
She come to town; she be foolin' around,
a puttin' me down as a rock-and-roll clown. It's all right.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin' my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.
She's so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can't be beat. What the hell.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
She lookin' so clean, especi'lly down in between; what I like.
She come to town; she be foolin' around,
a puttin' me down as a rock-and-roll clown. It's all right.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin' my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.
She's so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can't be beat. What the hell.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
Lyrics submitted by Thunderbolt
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Touche! But I still win:)
Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I do win. When you run off and leave me with the last word I know I am woman and you heard me roar:) Want me to fry up some bacon, too???
I could always eat it off piece by piece from your sexy chest ;) Arrrrr Arrrrr
Or gently drape it around certain parts only to go back later and gather them up using my talented tongue ;) Another arrrr arrrrr
ROXANNE, you don't have to put on the red light ;)
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Do chickens eat bacon? Cause I eat bacon. Not off someone's chest, at least not yet. But I'll add it to the list, if that fascinates you. You DO know God gave you two front canine teeth, right? (Just thought I'd straighten you veggies-tarians out while I'm here. It's my good deed for the day:)
Man, Woman, get that ADD and OCD under control 'cause you're talkin' to yourself! OK.
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