"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.
Evil inside
Leave death behind
Into the night
Otsego life
Holy shit, start to run
Look out fuckers, here he comes
Now he's back from the dead
Here to start the shit again
Don't try and get into his way
'cause you won't like the price you'll pay
Party down, run away
You'll be dead either way
When he comes, give your drink
You'll get used to his rotting stink
He'll show you a time as well
In the end you'll go to hell
You see the filth, you see a wretch
You want it all, but there's a catch
All your life, all your dreams
He can hear all your screams
Evil inside
Leave death behind
Into the night
Otsego life
Otsego amigo
Hurt the ones you loved the most
He'll make you turn white as a ghost
Frightening beyond belief and
Now your life is filled with grief
With his bony hands of death
He'll choke you till your final breath
Now you see, now you know
Your evil friend of otsego
Otsego amigo
Leave death behind
Into the night
Otsego life
Holy shit, start to run
Look out fuckers, here he comes
Now he's back from the dead
Here to start the shit again
Don't try and get into his way
'cause you won't like the price you'll pay
Party down, run away
You'll be dead either way
When he comes, give your drink
You'll get used to his rotting stink
He'll show you a time as well
In the end you'll go to hell
You see the filth, you see a wretch
You want it all, but there's a catch
All your life, all your dreams
He can hear all your screams
Evil inside
Leave death behind
Into the night
Otsego life
Otsego amigo
Hurt the ones you loved the most
He'll make you turn white as a ghost
Frightening beyond belief and
Now your life is filled with grief
With his bony hands of death
He'll choke you till your final breath
Now you see, now you know
Your evil friend of otsego
Otsego amigo
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Otsego Amigo Lyrics as written by Tripp Eisen Antonio Campos
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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