"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.
Oh penny
it's aboout to begin
so write do it on your wrist and dig in
cold cold chicago
go-go dance out the door
before your party gets bored and ignores you
it's getting harder now to move all your dreams
and all the things that you need wave as they leave
oh penny
makes a mess of this man
if there's a simpler plan than please speak
cause we're in trouble now
our underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't believe you
we're in trouble now
dear underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't believe
oh penny
will you cease to exist
without the faintest of fists
the amuse me
i got a honey
in the sun of CA
and i am happy to say that it's working
we've been sailing thorugh unthinkable kinks
but now i think it will sink
if i'm staying
oh penny
you put me through hell
and i've got nothing to sell
that will save you
cause we're in trouble now
our underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't belive you
we're in toruble now
dear underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't belive
past is the laughable and
hardly passable as background
artist's apartment will be looted and hollowed in the now
so overmedicate in any state
ain't it great
certain fate
and my dear old sharona
keeps em on the floor and wanting more
oh penny
we're about to dig in
so won't you find me a friend and give in
oh penny
will the fun never end
or will it ever begin without you
cause we're in trouble now
our underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't belive you
we're in trouble now
dear underground
we're in trouble now
and i don't belive
Lyrics submitted by Trainspotting
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