"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.
This is like our...Hippy fantasy come true...Ah, campfires...Who got the marshmellows? Well, I heard there's marshmallows and s'mores this year, are there? F'real? Ahhhh....
(Band speaks out of the range of the microphone)
...Scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly,
Also known as a busta',
Always talkin' about what he want,
Wanna' get wit' a guy like that,
So...No, I don't want your number
No, I don't wanna' give you mine, and
No, I don't wanna' meet you nowhere
No, I don't wanna' none'a your time
I don't want no scrub,
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Sittin' on the passenger side of his best friend's ride, tryin' to holler at me(microphone malfunction)
Hello? (Sorry.)
(Laughter)
Yeah! Shit...We should do more covers, huh?
(Band speaks out of the range of the microphone)
...Scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly,
Also known as a busta',
Always talkin' about what he want,
Wanna' get wit' a guy like that,
So...No, I don't want your number
No, I don't wanna' give you mine, and
No, I don't wanna' meet you nowhere
No, I don't wanna' none'a your time
I don't want no scrub,
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Sittin' on the passenger side of his best friend's ride, tryin' to holler at me(microphone malfunction)
Hello? (Sorry.)
(Laughter)
Yeah! Shit...We should do more covers, huh?
Lyrics submitted by Zetsumei
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