"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.
Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news!)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose
It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before Christmas"
We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trends
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
Brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
Into your notebook (spit lines like these)
We're friends when you're on your knees
Make them dance like we were shooting their feet
It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before Christmas"
We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
We're only liars, but we're the best
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only liars, but we're the best
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news!)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose
It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before Christmas"
We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trends
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
Brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
Into your notebook (spit lines like these)
We're friends when you're on your knees
Make them dance like we were shooting their feet
It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before Christmas"
We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
We're only liars, but we're the best
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only liars, but we're the best
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good 'cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense
Lyrics submitted by tjwells, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued Lyrics as written by Joseph Mark Trohman Andrew John Hurley
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this song was originally called "My Name Is David Ruffin, and These Are The Temptations", so they had to change the name obviously because david ruffin was in the temptations and it could have been a law suite, but this song is awsome, the new cd is gonna be hot.
I thought this song was called "I Liked You Better Before You Became A Myspace Whore"
hence the title change
im not sure what its about...but its a catchy son...and FOB rock
i dont know what this song is about either but its very good i could just listen to it over and over! im gonna see FOB on Tuesday!!:D:D:D
its about how people like to dress like them and theyre bein tongue in cheek about it
i'm. so. excited. MAY 3RD!
i'm not to sure about thsi one, but at a guess i think their deliberately going exaggerating how you can get sued for the stupidest things these days despite it just being some entertainment. "we're only good cause you can have all those famous friends, besides we've got such good fashion sense..." The way the lines sound makes it seem like they dont really care about all the 'glamourous' aspects of being famous, they just wanna make music maybe? I'm probly wrong but hey, just a guess :) Sounds great whatever, f.o.b r0ck! :D xxx
he says "almost famous friends" not "all those famous friends"
"brothers and sisters yea put these words down into your notebook" i still do this, and i'm in college. bad habits break hard, i guess.
still love the album, despite somehow feeling insulted by them slaughtering the population of their fans with half of the songs. they hate a scene they created. catch 22?