"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.
The next patient is not identified, period. The patient will be listed as John Doe, ID Number 369576. Date of exam 5-12-97 0200 hours paragraph
Patient history automobile accident with severe head and chest injuries, period paragraph.
Emergency computerized axial tomography of the brain without an intravenous pon-- contrast material. Period paragraph.
Multiple computerized axial tomographic scans of the brain were obtained, at one centimeter slice thickness from the base of the brain to the vertex, period. Images were filmed at both soft tissues and bone window settings period paragraph.
There is a comminuted depressed left parietal skull fracture with adjacent, extensive, left subdural hematoma, period. There is a left parietal brain contusion and-- and shift in mainline structures to the right, period paragraph.
Impression, colon: Comminuted left parietal skull fracture, period paragraph.
Left parietal subdural hematoma, period paragraph.
Left parietal brain contusion, period paragraph.
(Evil laughter)
I'm coming over there to lick your sucking balls off
This is my leprechaun and he took me magic gold
(Whimsical giggling)
Guyyys...Show me your tits!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
Is this the shit, or what?
Hey ya' better chiggity check yerself before you wreck yerself.
It can't get fresher than this.
I know it's not PC, but sometimes ya' gotta' put the smackdown on a ho.
Oh that's the Robby shiiiit
Mmm baby, I feel the juice mouse comin' from the flask ball
Mmm, mm, mmmm, baybaaa owww
I say down flounce, came from the last mount don't frame toeeee...
Revaloolay I saw the police mans there's so meaaaan.
(Snoring)
(Sorceror pinball machine sounds)
The karate kiiiid
For you to see I've been rumbling Kobra Kai
With Miyagi do karate right at my side
Not the Y, a good school! I gotta' learn karate, I HATE THIS BIKE! I HATE IT! I HA--
Daniel what are you doing to your bike!?
MOOOM! MOM! CAN'T WE GO HOME I JUST WANNA' GO HOME!
Danya'-san Dan'ya-san concentrate!
Focus powaa--
Wash ya' car paint ya' fence, paint ya' house!?
Bring my drum machine in here we can just fuck with it all one night or summin' ya' know?
Fuck with it all fancy all crazy...
Eight tracks dude you can make alot...
Eight fuckin' tracks you can make a lotta' shit
IIIINNNNCCCCUUUUBBBBUUUUSSSS
You're talkin' shit back there
B...Break it down!
(Telephone ringing, breathing)
Hello?
Patient history automobile accident with severe head and chest injuries, period paragraph.
Emergency computerized axial tomography of the brain without an intravenous pon-- contrast material. Period paragraph.
Multiple computerized axial tomographic scans of the brain were obtained, at one centimeter slice thickness from the base of the brain to the vertex, period. Images were filmed at both soft tissues and bone window settings period paragraph.
There is a comminuted depressed left parietal skull fracture with adjacent, extensive, left subdural hematoma, period. There is a left parietal brain contusion and-- and shift in mainline structures to the right, period paragraph.
Impression, colon: Comminuted left parietal skull fracture, period paragraph.
Left parietal subdural hematoma, period paragraph.
Left parietal brain contusion, period paragraph.
(Evil laughter)
I'm coming over there to lick your sucking balls off
This is my leprechaun and he took me magic gold
(Whimsical giggling)
Guyyys...Show me your tits!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
Is this the shit, or what?
Hey ya' better chiggity check yerself before you wreck yerself.
It can't get fresher than this.
I know it's not PC, but sometimes ya' gotta' put the smackdown on a ho.
Oh that's the Robby shiiiit
Mmm baby, I feel the juice mouse comin' from the flask ball
Mmm, mm, mmmm, baybaaa owww
I say down flounce, came from the last mount don't frame toeeee...
Revaloolay I saw the police mans there's so meaaaan.
(Snoring)
(Sorceror pinball machine sounds)
The karate kiiiid
For you to see I've been rumbling Kobra Kai
With Miyagi do karate right at my side
Not the Y, a good school! I gotta' learn karate, I HATE THIS BIKE! I HATE IT! I HA--
Daniel what are you doing to your bike!?
MOOOM! MOM! CAN'T WE GO HOME I JUST WANNA' GO HOME!
Danya'-san Dan'ya-san concentrate!
Focus powaa--
Wash ya' car paint ya' fence, paint ya' house!?
Bring my drum machine in here we can just fuck with it all one night or summin' ya' know?
Fuck with it all fancy all crazy...
Eight tracks dude you can make alot...
Eight fuckin' tracks you can make a lotta' shit
IIIINNNNCCCCUUUUBBBBUUUUSSSS
You're talkin' shit back there
B...Break it down!
(Telephone ringing, breathing)
Hello?
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well, obviously this is just a crazy track with a bunch of recorded stuff they thought was funny or cool and whatnot... like something I used to do with music when I was 12. It's fun to listen to, though... always thought they said "show your dick!" and "fuck!"
It's funny... but it's just for fun.