"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.
Trippin', trippin', trippin'
Trippin'
I gotta gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip out of this place
I gotta gotta get away, get away from the human race
I don't know what I'll see, don't even know what I'll find
I don't know what to pack, never been to a trip at the mind
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
I took a wrong turn and I ended up at my heart
It could barely even pump no blood it was so thrashed and torn apart
Thank it for working overtime in pain and misery
Then I set back on the trail, headed for my destiny
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
Well, fly with me
Flying free
Tripping
You must be tripping
Trip, trip, trip, trip, tripping
Tripping
I cannot stop this trip, I forgot to pack the brakes
Crashed straight into a concrete wall of my mistakes
Ended up in a cemetary of a thousand wasted days
But that's alright with me, 'cause that's where most of my memory lays
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
Gonna trip, tripping going tripping going tripping tripping tripping going
Everybody's tripping, everybody's saying
Everybody's gonna be tripping, tripping tripping tripping gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Fly with me
Flying free
Gotta get away
Gotta gotta gotta gotta get away
I gotta get away, gotta get away
I'm gonna take that trip
Welcome 'cause I'm the host with the most
Now here's a little toast take your messages and put you're mind on coast
I'll exorcise your fears make your nightmares disappear
You can talk all you want
But nothing do I really hear
A situation, this operation
A simple demonstration in experimentation
I slip, trip, slip, trip every little dip
There's nothing like a lobotomy
To keep a person free of pain
Financial gain for your personal pain
Well it's so insane but won't you keep all the pain
And slip, fly, trip
Got caught up in another trap
So pay another shrink buy his wife another mink
Let me tell what I think think think, I think
I gotta, gotta get away gotta get away, gotta get away
I'm just trippin' trippin' trippin'
Never volatile, wanna sin with me?
You gotta get away, they say they're gonna freak
But that's between the cheek, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta...
Gotta make a sound it's a dance mom
Gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip
The real trip ain't about gettin' hip
Gotta trip tripa tripa tripa tripa ha
Sins go slam, goin' down at the chest
Gotta get away gotta get away away
Gotta trip with no permission, mind evaluation
Take your head, add a little crazy
Take that trip to the brain
Take that trip to the brain
Everybody gotta get get off
You gotta gotta gotta take the trip to the brain!
Trippin'
I gotta gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip out of this place
I gotta gotta get away, get away from the human race
I don't know what I'll see, don't even know what I'll find
I don't know what to pack, never been to a trip at the mind
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
I took a wrong turn and I ended up at my heart
It could barely even pump no blood it was so thrashed and torn apart
Thank it for working overtime in pain and misery
Then I set back on the trail, headed for my destiny
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
Well, fly with me
Flying free
Tripping
You must be tripping
Trip, trip, trip, trip, tripping
Tripping
I cannot stop this trip, I forgot to pack the brakes
Crashed straight into a concrete wall of my mistakes
Ended up in a cemetary of a thousand wasted days
But that's alright with me, 'cause that's where most of my memory lays
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Do you know what I'm saying?
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain
Well, I'm going insane
Gonna trip, tripping going tripping going tripping tripping tripping going
Everybody's tripping, everybody's saying
Everybody's gonna be tripping, tripping tripping tripping gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
Fly with me
Flying free
Gotta get away
Gotta gotta gotta gotta get away
I gotta get away, gotta get away
I'm gonna take that trip
Welcome 'cause I'm the host with the most
Now here's a little toast take your messages and put you're mind on coast
I'll exorcise your fears make your nightmares disappear
You can talk all you want
But nothing do I really hear
A situation, this operation
A simple demonstration in experimentation
I slip, trip, slip, trip every little dip
There's nothing like a lobotomy
To keep a person free of pain
Financial gain for your personal pain
Well it's so insane but won't you keep all the pain
And slip, fly, trip
Got caught up in another trap
So pay another shrink buy his wife another mink
Let me tell what I think think think, I think
I gotta, gotta get away gotta get away, gotta get away
I'm just trippin' trippin' trippin'
Never volatile, wanna sin with me?
You gotta get away, they say they're gonna freak
But that's between the cheek, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta...
Gotta make a sound it's a dance mom
Gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip
The real trip ain't about gettin' hip
Gotta trip tripa tripa tripa tripa ha
Sins go slam, goin' down at the chest
Gotta get away gotta get away away
Gotta trip with no permission, mind evaluation
Take your head, add a little crazy
Take that trip to the brain
Take that trip to the brain
Everybody gotta get get off
You gotta gotta gotta take the trip to the brain!
Lyrics submitted by Lateralus518
Trip At The Brain Lyrics as written by Muir Clark
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these Lyrics are terrible! Tripping...
Ha-ha-ha-ha... Tripping!
[guitar solo]
I gotta gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip out of this place I gotta gotta get away, get away from the human race I don't know what I'll see, don't even know what I'll find I don't know what to pack, never been to a trip at the mind
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Do you know what I'm saying? Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Well I'm going insane!
I took a wrong turn and I ended up at my heart It could barely even pump no blood, it was so thrashed and torn apart Thank it for working overtime in pain and misery Then I set back on the trail, headed for my destiny
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Do you know what I'm saying? Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Well I'm going insane!
Fly with me... Flying free...
[guitar solo]
Tripping! You must be tripping! Trip, trip, trip, trip, tripping! Ya ya ya ya you're tripping!
I cannot-cannot stop this trip; I forgot to pack the brakes Crashed straight into a concrete wall of my mistakes Ended up in a cemetery of a thousand wasted days But that's alright with me, cause that's where most of my memories lays
Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Do you know what I'm saying? Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain! Well I'm going insane!
Tripping going tripping going Tripping tripping tripping going Tripping in my mind these days And everybody's gonna be tripping Trippin trippin trippin gonna Gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna!
Fly with me... Flying free...
Gotta get away, gotta get away! Gotta gotta gotta gotta get away! I gotta get away, gotta get away! I'm gonna take that trip...
[guitar solo]
Welcome...
'Cause I'm the host with the most, now here's a little toast Don't think of nothing 'cause you'll put your mind on course I'll exercise your fears, make you nightmares disappear You can talk all you want, but nothing do I really hear
Accentuating, exasperating, a simple demonstration in experimentation A slip flip, slip drip, every little dip There's not a lack of power in me to keep a person's feelings fed I'm educated from your personal pain
Well it's so insane but won't you keep on playing? It's a slip, slide, slip, dad, call a friend, get another job To pay another shrink and buy his wife another mink Let me tell you what I think, I think, I think, I think, I...
Gotta get, gotta get away I gotta, gotta get away, gotta get away I'm just trippin', trip a trip trippin' Never thought you saw it but I see it in me You gotta get away... You said it's gonna fix, what happened to the truth? Gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta You gotta make a sound, and put the down smile Gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip A real trip, you'll be down in a hip Everybody's trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' Don't snip, don't snap, don't get down, it's a trap Gotta get away, gotta get away, away gotta A simple observation, mind evaluation Take your head, try to run away and...
Take that trip to the brain... Take that trip to the brain... Everybody's gotta dig it up and gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta; Take that trip to the brain!
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Wow only one double comment on this song! I listened to song repeatedly in the late 80s and I still love it.
The best of the "newer era" ST!! This song is so awesome I remember when it first came out...the video kicked ass too, frigin John Cusak was in it yelling at Mike Muir (or the mind of Mike Muir) that was a "maget!"
Oh for those who could not figure it out...it's about those little tabs of paper you put on your tongue. Oh, good job redoing the lyrics, whoever posted them first did an atrocious part... the "break" part with the guitar solo is the best frigin part of the song!
It's an anti drug song. Muir said it himself. Just read the free styling part of the song.