"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.
They told me if I write this song for them
That they would cut my hair for free
But that's not me, no liberties
And they're into all the coolest bands
And knowing that they're going to the gigs as fans
Entitles me to some decency
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like me
Split visions of a talkative therapy
It makes me bend away, it gives me E
Seems hard to say, it?s insanity
The same record for the 16th time
Exact same set you did the last time ?round
Doesn't bother me, we're in harmony
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Everybody danced like them
No low emotions rolling tonight
Young heavy hopefuls staying the night
So stick around and wait for the day
Craziness kills laziness and happiness takes bad bets
No one gives a fuck, you see we're all out of our little heads
Craziness kills laziness and happiness takes bad bets
No one gives a fuck, you see we're all out of our
All out of our, all out of our little fucking heads
Doo doo doo
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Can anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
That they would cut my hair for free
But that's not me, no liberties
And they're into all the coolest bands
And knowing that they're going to the gigs as fans
Entitles me to some decency
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like me
Split visions of a talkative therapy
It makes me bend away, it gives me E
Seems hard to say, it?s insanity
The same record for the 16th time
Exact same set you did the last time ?round
Doesn't bother me, we're in harmony
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Everybody danced like them
No low emotions rolling tonight
Young heavy hopefuls staying the night
So stick around and wait for the day
Craziness kills laziness and happiness takes bad bets
No one gives a fuck, you see we're all out of our little heads
Craziness kills laziness and happiness takes bad bets
No one gives a fuck, you see we're all out of our
All out of our, all out of our little fucking heads
Doo doo doo
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
They're the cleverest blonde weekend
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
I wish everybody danced like them
Can anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them, can you tell me?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Does anybody dance like them?
(Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day)
Asted-way ittle-lay eejays-day
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Wasted Little Dj's [Live] Lyrics as written by Kyle Falconer Kieren Webster
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