"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.
I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this
Life can be an onward, downward
Chip-chit-chip-chit-chip
I'm not saying they're really thick
But all the groups who've hit it big
Make the Kane Gang look like
An Einstein chip, chip
NYC, chip, a place to live
Chip, this is the Thule group.
This is the cool group.
I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this.
Shawn and (the Chewer/Petula), macabre
Here are your wedding pictures
They are black
Stick it in the gut
Stick in the mud.
Boffins bray, boffins brag
Stick it in the gut
Stick in the mud.
They take from the medium poor to
Give to the needy poor
Via the government poor
Give it to the poor poor
They're knocking on my door
Entrance, entranced
Stick it in the mud
Stick it in the gut
Cheap fog, cheap fog
Rotting scout-belt
Stick it in the gut
Who are the riff-makers.
Who are they really?
How old are the stars really?
Half-wit philanthropist, cozy charity gig
If God could see this
He'd stick it, they stick it in the gut
Cheap fog, rotting scout-belt
Stick it in the gut
Stay in the mud
They take it from the medium poor
To give it to the medium poor
Via the government poor
And give it to the poor poor
Stick it in the gut
Red composite
Wealthy philanthropist
You son of a bitch
Entranced, entrance, entranced
Stick in the mud
Stick it in the gut
I'm telling you now
And I'm telling you this,
Life can be a downward chip.
Life can be an onward, downward
Chip-chit-chip-chit-chip
I'm not saying they're really thick
But all the groups who've hit it big
Make the Kane Gang look like
An Einstein chip, chip
NYC, chip, a place to live
Chip, this is the Thule group.
This is the cool group.
I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this.
Shawn and (the Chewer/Petula), macabre
Here are your wedding pictures
They are black
Stick it in the gut
Stick in the mud.
Boffins bray, boffins brag
Stick it in the gut
Stick in the mud.
They take from the medium poor to
Give to the needy poor
Via the government poor
Give it to the poor poor
They're knocking on my door
Entrance, entranced
Stick it in the mud
Stick it in the gut
Cheap fog, cheap fog
Rotting scout-belt
Stick it in the gut
Who are the riff-makers.
Who are they really?
How old are the stars really?
Half-wit philanthropist, cozy charity gig
If God could see this
He'd stick it, they stick it in the gut
Cheap fog, rotting scout-belt
Stick it in the gut
Stay in the mud
They take it from the medium poor
To give it to the medium poor
Via the government poor
And give it to the poor poor
Stick it in the gut
Red composite
Wealthy philanthropist
You son of a bitch
Entranced, entrance, entranced
Stick in the mud
Stick it in the gut
I'm telling you now
And I'm telling you this,
Life can be a downward chip.
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