"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.
"You sound like you've been playing together for ten years"
"Yeah, yeah, that was a nice jam"
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
The sun comes up in the morning
And it shines that light around
One day, without no warning
Things start jumping up from the ground
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
Plant that bulb and let it blow
"Yeah, yeah, that was a nice jam"
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
The sun comes up in the morning
And it shines that light around
One day, without no warning
Things start jumping up from the ground
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
Homegrown's all right with me
Homegrown is the way it should be
Homegrown is a good thing
Plant that bell and let it ring
Plant that bulb and let it blow
Lyrics submitted by danger bird
Homegrown Lyrics as written by Neil Young
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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i like neils altered lyrics!
go down to the family market with your money in your hand grew it from a family farmer keep him working on the land!
farm aid baby!
Neils a good man, i think hes weird when it comes to playing with musicians, hes the first one to always bail if things aren't going "agreeably well"