"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.
Thats one of the first samples we should use.
No self-control Peter Gabriel sang to me
Herb Winningham hit a ball my way
Now I wanna be a shortstop, dressed like a rag doll
Head for the Hills Im running lazertag efficiency drills
Run anywhere, dodge anything, tag anyone
Big white rifle and a little black handgun
I had the helmets, pads, and the vest
Knew the woods like the back of my hands
And in no time I was the best shot hands down
Help storm down anybody caught with their pants down
French fry co-creater, born with range
Gonna stop on a dime and give you nine and a half cents change
To the rest of the world remain, composed, indulged
Take it off of the top
Suppose that my pertinent voice spawned new styles
Resistence is futile
High tops are nice
paired with tube socks and a fresh waxed floor
To get to the point something mystro gets vice and a whole lot more
At a drugstore, to get to the point to cut to the chase
Im in a milk chocolate mode with a bananamated batman named after it
Ate it and wash it down with a juice in which I didnt
But Ill do it again
Pain and suffering aside I brought along a friend
He pointed out that Mike and Ikes are no longer the same
More than two individuals are now represented by both names
Cherry and Bob
Lemon Mel
Jolly Joe the Grape
What we are witnessing here is a systematic rape of the entrepreneur
Just born I wasnt conceived yesterday
Children of the worlds we gotta watch our sugary friends fade
You see character representatives with cartoons eyes
Are subject to fifty percent more bullshit and clauses and policy lies
Ill say one more thing on the issue at hand
Choose the snacks you believe in
and side with the band
No self-control Peter Gabriel sang to me
Herb Winningham hit a ball my way
Now I wanna be a shortstop, dressed like a rag doll
Head for the Hills Im running lazertag efficiency drills
Run anywhere, dodge anything, tag anyone
Big white rifle and a little black handgun
I had the helmets, pads, and the vest
Knew the woods like the back of my hands
And in no time I was the best shot hands down
Help storm down anybody caught with their pants down
French fry co-creater, born with range
Gonna stop on a dime and give you nine and a half cents change
To the rest of the world remain, composed, indulged
Take it off of the top
Suppose that my pertinent voice spawned new styles
Resistence is futile
High tops are nice
paired with tube socks and a fresh waxed floor
To get to the point something mystro gets vice and a whole lot more
At a drugstore, to get to the point to cut to the chase
Im in a milk chocolate mode with a bananamated batman named after it
Ate it and wash it down with a juice in which I didnt
But Ill do it again
Pain and suffering aside I brought along a friend
He pointed out that Mike and Ikes are no longer the same
More than two individuals are now represented by both names
Cherry and Bob
Lemon Mel
Jolly Joe the Grape
What we are witnessing here is a systematic rape of the entrepreneur
Just born I wasnt conceived yesterday
Children of the worlds we gotta watch our sugary friends fade
You see character representatives with cartoons eyes
Are subject to fifty percent more bullshit and clauses and policy lies
Ill say one more thing on the issue at hand
Choose the snacks you believe in
and side with the band
Lyrics submitted by marff3
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