"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.
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
So glam fags get off the block
Who wants to see transvestites in drag
Who look like a glam rock fag
Looking like a sissy and a bitch
Ya look like that your daddy must be rich
Make up on their face and their hair in a shag
You know that they're a disgrace and a fag
Round up all glam faggots and put em in a cage
So the hetero Mentors can rock the stage
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Wanna see a girl with a pussy and not a cock
Heterosexuals want a rockin' chance
We don't wear dresses,we wear pants
On the stage we'll rock you all we can
We're gross and fat,but we look like a man
Listen everyone,we're gonna rock
Look like a man not a peacock
The jerks with the make up who wear the braids
Are most likely to have AIDS
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Ya know that their weiner looks like a noodle
They prance all around like a french poodle
They hang around in cliques for kicks
But we all know they're chicks with dicks
They wash their hair in a washing machine
You know it's full of sperm and it ain't too clean
The fags wear earrings in their ear
You know that they're a mother fucking queer
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Put your homo head on the chopping block
Heteros want to see rock this year
Mentors and not a queer
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
So glam fags get off the block
Who wants to see transvestites in drag
Who look like a glam rock fag
Looking like a sissy and a bitch
Ya look like that your daddy must be rich
Make up on their face and their hair in a shag
You know that they're a disgrace and a fag
Round up all glam faggots and put em in a cage
So the hetero Mentors can rock the stage
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Wanna see a girl with a pussy and not a cock
Heterosexuals want a rockin' chance
We don't wear dresses,we wear pants
On the stage we'll rock you all we can
We're gross and fat,but we look like a man
Listen everyone,we're gonna rock
Look like a man not a peacock
The jerks with the make up who wear the braids
Are most likely to have AIDS
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Ya know that their weiner looks like a noodle
They prance all around like a french poodle
They hang around in cliques for kicks
But we all know they're chicks with dicks
They wash their hair in a washing machine
You know it's full of sperm and it ain't too clean
The fags wear earrings in their ear
You know that they're a mother fucking queer
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Put your homo head on the chopping block
Heteros want to see rock this year
Mentors and not a queer
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Heterosexuals have the right to rock
Lyrics submitted by Count_Grim
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