"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.
Grab your girl, lift her up
Shake your ass and fill my cup
All the way down, all over the place
A new way to fall on your face
Do the headright baby
Lift a leg, twist out of you
She'll follow your lead
And get up to my speed
Dance to sounds of the living dead
Get up, spin around, fall back to the ground
Do the headright baby
No time to think, pass me a drink
One for the road and three on the way home
Do my dance, fuck romance
I'm not made of rubber, man
I'm taking my chance
Roll the dice, it feels nice
If she starts screaming, I'm doing it twice
You head for the door, you're making me sore
Gimme so more, one two three four
Do the headright baby
Listen to me, see for yourself
I'm getting my headright
I'm moving in stealth
Dancing with your girl, I'm out at the bar
She's buying the drinks, I'm driving your car
Yeah
Do the headright baby
Get your headright baby
Do the headright baby
Get your headright baby
Yeah
Shake your ass and fill my cup
All the way down, all over the place
A new way to fall on your face
Do the headright baby
Lift a leg, twist out of you
She'll follow your lead
And get up to my speed
Dance to sounds of the living dead
Get up, spin around, fall back to the ground
Do the headright baby
No time to think, pass me a drink
One for the road and three on the way home
Do my dance, fuck romance
I'm not made of rubber, man
I'm taking my chance
Roll the dice, it feels nice
If she starts screaming, I'm doing it twice
You head for the door, you're making me sore
Gimme so more, one two three four
Do the headright baby
Listen to me, see for yourself
I'm getting my headright
I'm moving in stealth
Dancing with your girl, I'm out at the bar
She's buying the drinks, I'm driving your car
Yeah
Do the headright baby
Get your headright baby
Do the headright baby
Get your headright baby
Yeah
Lyrics submitted by Dressed2Depress
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