"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.
please support the cops with everything ya got
there out there to correct
bustin their buts from dawn till dusk
just to serve and protect
yeah just to serve and protect
all these kids so disrespectful to authority
all these men- men and women protecting our safety
with out them here life would be caos life would be anarchy
in a few years imagine what life would be
there you are indorsing anarchy on your clothes at school
but we both know that life without authority would not be cool
your utopia a life with out any police
your utopia where criminals like you run the streets
on your skate board middle finger in the air
think about this for a second
love one dies and no body cares
and no ones there to prevent it
six o-clock news another police linching on your tv
swallow disgust think for a second all they've done for you
1998, homeless man steels you wallet and id
to survive, but they got that bastard, and shot him to
there out there to correct
bustin their buts from dawn till dusk
just to serve and protect
yeah just to serve and protect
all these kids so disrespectful to authority
all these men- men and women protecting our safety
with out them here life would be caos life would be anarchy
in a few years imagine what life would be
there you are indorsing anarchy on your clothes at school
but we both know that life without authority would not be cool
your utopia a life with out any police
your utopia where criminals like you run the streets
on your skate board middle finger in the air
think about this for a second
love one dies and no body cares
and no ones there to prevent it
six o-clock news another police linching on your tv
swallow disgust think for a second all they've done for you
1998, homeless man steels you wallet and id
to survive, but they got that bastard, and shot him to
Lyrics submitted by Poegwen
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