"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.
PC Speaker:
Sit down and take five while I defrag your drive
With Jack in the Box tacos and a dope G5
If you bought MySpace Records Volume 1
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my Internet gun
My hard drive is huge, MP3s are external
Back up off the urinal and write in my LiveJournal
At the 'puter all night cause my life is nocturnal
Data backup assures that my porn is eternal
"You crazy," that's what all those bitches got to say
So I whip it out and post a pic in my LJ
Friends only cause I don't want my Mom to see
If she saw, she'd cut off the Internet and cable TV
But I don't give a fuck about those Internet hoes
I gotta cut 'em off before they want to propose
'Cause the herpes isn't covered by my HMOs
Deleted from my buddy list and that's how it goes
Motherboard:
Futuristic Sex Robotz, always on the scene
And we'll heat up your case just like an Athlon XP
We don't have no love for the Internet skeeze
'Cause our PayPal accounts are overflowing with green
Coaxke:
Trippin balls in bathroom stalls
Waitin for a fine-ass bitch to call
The THC hits my CPU
And I'm chasin after dimes like an Orthodox Jew
Plug and Play a bitch, I'm a player bitch
Like some virus shit, countin website hits
My Punisher fan grill is illin
When I see you on the street, your shit will be spillin,
I'll infect you with Sasser and MS Blaster,
Pop-ups be poppin up faster and faster,
I master a DAT tape full of raw raps, perhaps
My shit make your whole crew collapse
All you hackers, who gettin on my case
Coaxke is here, and I'll reformat your fuckin face
PC Speaker:
Sit back, 'cause I got a little story to tell
And no I'm not talkin about no AOL
I'm talkin about how Firefox saved me from browser hell
While I was usin Internet Explorer on my DSL
Firefox 0.3, it spoke to me
It said "I'll make your life better than you ever could dream
I'll get rid of all those pop-ups for free MP3s
And I'll blow spyware's head off while it's down on its knees"
PC Speaker:
Yo, if you were spyware, you can't hear this shit anymore because you're fuckin dead, motherfucker. We bustin up the block with our iced out modded cases and 120mm Punisher fan-grills, motherfucker, and if your Mom talks shit to us, we'll kill her and burn her in a motherfuckin van, motherfucker, and write about that shit in our LiveJournals, motherfucker, and if you want somethin crazy, like pineapple, fuck you, we'll kill you motherfucker.
Sit down and take five while I defrag your drive
With Jack in the Box tacos and a dope G5
If you bought MySpace Records Volume 1
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my Internet gun
My hard drive is huge, MP3s are external
Back up off the urinal and write in my LiveJournal
At the 'puter all night cause my life is nocturnal
Data backup assures that my porn is eternal
"You crazy," that's what all those bitches got to say
So I whip it out and post a pic in my LJ
Friends only cause I don't want my Mom to see
If she saw, she'd cut off the Internet and cable TV
But I don't give a fuck about those Internet hoes
I gotta cut 'em off before they want to propose
'Cause the herpes isn't covered by my HMOs
Deleted from my buddy list and that's how it goes
Motherboard:
Futuristic Sex Robotz, always on the scene
And we'll heat up your case just like an Athlon XP
We don't have no love for the Internet skeeze
'Cause our PayPal accounts are overflowing with green
Coaxke:
Trippin balls in bathroom stalls
Waitin for a fine-ass bitch to call
The THC hits my CPU
And I'm chasin after dimes like an Orthodox Jew
Plug and Play a bitch, I'm a player bitch
Like some virus shit, countin website hits
My Punisher fan grill is illin
When I see you on the street, your shit will be spillin,
I'll infect you with Sasser and MS Blaster,
Pop-ups be poppin up faster and faster,
I master a DAT tape full of raw raps, perhaps
My shit make your whole crew collapse
All you hackers, who gettin on my case
Coaxke is here, and I'll reformat your fuckin face
PC Speaker:
Sit back, 'cause I got a little story to tell
And no I'm not talkin about no AOL
I'm talkin about how Firefox saved me from browser hell
While I was usin Internet Explorer on my DSL
Firefox 0.3, it spoke to me
It said "I'll make your life better than you ever could dream
I'll get rid of all those pop-ups for free MP3s
And I'll blow spyware's head off while it's down on its knees"
PC Speaker:
Yo, if you were spyware, you can't hear this shit anymore because you're fuckin dead, motherfucker. We bustin up the block with our iced out modded cases and 120mm Punisher fan-grills, motherfucker, and if your Mom talks shit to us, we'll kill her and burn her in a motherfuckin van, motherfucker, and write about that shit in our LiveJournals, motherfucker, and if you want somethin crazy, like pineapple, fuck you, we'll kill you motherfucker.
Lyrics submitted by L-Kyne
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Funny song, I love this band.
Line by line, for posers. PC Speaker: Sit down and take five while I defrag your drive - Defragmentation can often take a long time With Jack in the Box tacos and a dope G5 - An apple G5, claimed in 2003 to be the fastest commercial computer ever built
If you bought MySpace Records Volume 1 I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my Internet gun - Myspace records was an obvious attempt at capitolising on the digitisation of music which record companies find hard to control. Purchasing this album would contribute to their efforts to do so.
My hard drive is huge, MP3s are external - MP3's being stored on an external hard drive as well as a claim pertaining to the size of PC Speakers hard disk drive.
Back up off the urinal and write in my LiveJournal - LiveJournal is an online diary or journal service.
At the 'puter all night cause my life is nocturnal - 'puter is a loose term for computer, 'nerds' or 'geeks' tend to keep erratic and unnatural sleep patterns such as a nocturnal attitude.
Data backup assures that my porn is eternal - Self Explanatory
"You crazy," that's what all those bitches got to say - Self Explanatory
So I whip it out and post a pic in my LJ Friends only cause I don't want my Mom to see If she saw, she'd cut off the Internet and cable TV - Posting a picture of his penis on his LiveJournal. Friends only means only user accounts which have been accepted as friends on LiveJournal can view the LiveJournal entry.
But I don't give a fuck about those Internet hoes I gotta cut 'em off before they want to propose 'Cause the herpes isn't covered by my HMOs Deleted from my buddy list and that's how it goes - Buddy List being a list of friends given the ability to start conversations with PC Speaker. Pertaining to chat protocols like msn, aim, icq.
Motherboard: Futuristic Sex Robotz, always on the scene And we'll heat up your case just like an Athlon XP We don't have no love for the Internet skeeze 'Cause our PayPal accounts are overflowing with green - The Athlon XP is a Central Processing Unit chip released by the company AMD. CPU's traditionally generate a lot of heat which must be dissipated through the use of a heatsink and fan. Paypal is a service used to transfer money to other paypal accounts.
Coaxke: Trippin balls in bathroom stalls Waitin for a fine-ass bitch to call The THC hits my CPU - THC being the active ingredient in cannabis, CPU being the central processing unit of a computer system
And I'm chasin after dimes like an Orthodox Jew - Jews are traditionally said to be greedy or frugal
Plug and Play a bitch, I'm a player bitch - Plug and Play is a standard system pertaining to peripherals that need no drivers or use universal drivers that ship with the Windows XP Operating System
Like some virus shit, countin website hits - A "hit" being a visit to a website by a user
My Punisher fan grill is illin - A customised grill to protect a computer case fan in the shape of the emblem of the popular comic book character "The punisher". This is likely to be ironic.
When I see you on the street, your shit will be spillin, I'll infect you with Sasser and MS Blaster, Pop-ups be poppin up faster and faster, - sasser and MS Blaster are both virus for the windows operating systems. Viruses have been known to allow pop ups to increase in both frequency and annoyance.
I master a DAT tape full of raw raps, perhaps My shit make your whole crew collapse - A DAT tape is a sequential data storage medium. Typically DAT tapes contain sensitive backup data.
All you hackers, who gettin on my case Coaxke is here, and I'll reformat your fuckin face - Reformatting refers to the erasing of all data on a storage medium such as a hard drive or floppy disk, including the master boot record. Reformatting is often a last ditch attempt to salvage a drive.
PC Speaker: Sit back, 'cause I got a little story to tell And no I'm not talkin about no AOL - AOL (America OnLine) is widely believed to be a terrible Internet Service Provider on account of their mollycoddling their userbase.
I'm talkin about how Firefox saved me from browser hell While I was usin Internet Explorer on my DSL Firefox 0.3, it spoke to me It said "I'll make your life better than you ever could dream I'll get rid of all those pop-ups for free MP3s And I'll blow spyware's head off while it's down on its knees" - Firefox is believed by the majority of tech communities to be superior to internet explorer, notably in the way that it deals with popups. DSL stands for digital subscriber line and pertains to the method of allowing a connection to the internet through the unused frequencies on a standard phone line. It is generally outdated and used mostly in areas without cable connections or fibre optic lines. Spyware is a type of virus, the main aim of which is to transmit data about your computing environment to an external location.
PC Speaker: Yo, if you were spyware, you can't hear this shit anymore because you're fuckin dead, motherfucker. We bustin up the block with our iced out modded cases and 120mm Punisher fan-grills, motherfucker, and if your Mom talks shit to us, we'll kill her and burn her in a motherfuckin van, motherfucker, and write about that shit in our LiveJournals, motherfucker, and if you want somethin crazy, like pineapple, fuck you, we'll kill you motherfucker. - Self Explanatory.