"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.
Hey! Looks like an emergency
Well that's ok with me 'cause I want to tell you in this elevator
Looks like you're my baby now
So put away that thing 'cause my baby don't need no vibrator
[Chorus]
I'm sure I'm the one you're looking for
I'm sure I'm sure you've heard it all before
I care but I don't care anymore
I'm sorry but I don't know what I'm sorry for
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator
Hey now the doors are opening
And I look like a jerk while you're grinning like an Alligator
Can't we just forget the whole thing
Shake each others hands and say goodbye baby see you later
[Chorus]
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no artificial stimulator non-organic excavator
[Chorus]
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator
Hey she don't, she don't, she don't
Hey she don't, she don't, she don't
Hey she dies, she dies, she dies
Hey she dies, she dies, she dies
So I will see you later
Well that's ok with me 'cause I want to tell you in this elevator
Looks like you're my baby now
So put away that thing 'cause my baby don't need no vibrator
[Chorus]
I'm sure I'm the one you're looking for
I'm sure I'm sure you've heard it all before
I care but I don't care anymore
I'm sorry but I don't know what I'm sorry for
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator
Hey now the doors are opening
And I look like a jerk while you're grinning like an Alligator
Can't we just forget the whole thing
Shake each others hands and say goodbye baby see you later
[Chorus]
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no artificial stimulator non-organic excavator
[Chorus]
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator
Hey she don't, she don't, she don't
Hey she don't, she don't, she don't
Hey she dies, she dies, she dies
Hey she dies, she dies, she dies
So I will see you later
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Who woulda thought a vibrator could make for such an amusing and rocking song? Typical of Electric six
It's "tuna investigator", damnit all.
'i'm the .. i'm the one your looking for' not 'i'm sure.. i'm the one your looking for'
it's about a vibrator a girl has and the man is.......
its about a vibrator! ok.
When a band can put the phrase "non-organic excavator" into a song, you know they are geniuses. :D