"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.
Sweet Sixteen in leather boots
Body and soul I go crazy
Baby, baby I'm hungry Sweet Sixteen
Funky bar all full of faces
Pretty faces, beautiful faces
Body and soul, body and soul, I give to you
I am an easy mark
With my broken heart Sweet Sixteen
Show you my explosion Sweet Sixteen
Go out to the funky bar
I get hurt- crying inside
'Cause everybody's so fine and
And they don't need me
Tell me, what can I do, Sweet Sixteen?
I give you my body and soul Sweet Sixteen
I must be hungry
'Cause I go crazy
Over your leather boots
Now baby, I know
That's not normal
Well, I love you, I love you, I love you<, Sweet Sixteen
Everywhere I go, I'm lonely..
Lyrics submitted by J0K3R
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Its called Sixteen not Sweet Sixteen
but I never thought/knew it was about lusting after a sixteen year old. I always thought it was about being sweet sixteen. Being a hungry sweet sixteen and strutting sidewalks from bar to club and being lonely and really insecure. Plus you fall in love easy when you're sweet sixteen. I guess our image of Iggy is this really apathetic, kind of intimidating guy who's not really the type we associate with easy marks and broken hearts. Maybe he's not singing about himself directly, but I think he definitely knows intimately what he's singing about. who doesn't, anyway, when they're sixteen. again, the song isn't very intimate, with its simple riff and simple lyrics, it's a more apathetic, Iggy Pop-style way of looking at our sweet/bitter sixteenth year. plus this is the era of glam rock, so the leather boots definitely don't necessarily allude to a girl.