"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.
Get up, you fuck and do what you can
Its time to get up, you gotta fight like a man
Your country needs you, you gotta put down those toys
Its time to prove now that you're a man not a boy
So get up you stupid fuck you've gotta do what you can
Its time to get up you've got to fight like a man
Your country needs you, you've got to get up and fight
I said you've gotta get up, you've gotta fight, fight ,fight!
Wow Feel my tomahawk again,
Come on man, charge
Wow Feel my tomahawk again,
Come on man, charge
I said get up you fuck and do what you can
Its time to get up you've gotta fight like a man
Your country needs you, you've gotta put down those toys
Its time to prove now that you're a man not a boy
So get up you stupid fuck you've gotta do what you can
Its time to get up you've got to fight like a man
Your country needs you
Your country needs you
Wow feel my tomahawk again,
Wow pin me into submission
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Its time to get up, you gotta fight like a man
Your country needs you, you gotta put down those toys
Its time to prove now that you're a man not a boy
So get up you stupid fuck you've gotta do what you can
Its time to get up you've got to fight like a man
Your country needs you, you've got to get up and fight
I said you've gotta get up, you've gotta fight, fight ,fight!
Wow Feel my tomahawk again,
Come on man, charge
Wow Feel my tomahawk again,
Come on man, charge
I said get up you fuck and do what you can
Its time to get up you've gotta fight like a man
Your country needs you, you've gotta put down those toys
Its time to prove now that you're a man not a boy
So get up you stupid fuck you've gotta do what you can
Its time to get up you've got to fight like a man
Your country needs you
Your country needs you
Wow feel my tomahawk again,
Wow pin me into submission
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Come on and die
Lyrics submitted by matilda-v
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