"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.
hmm mister mister
move your car off the yellow line
get a real job you fuck
i just couldn't believe the news
i was always right and abuse her
on the corner the floor your home
and a cryin out loud to another floor
and a people are standin up to go home
and i aint even got a fuckin phone
and i want to use the bathroom please
won't let me out of the corner
are you listenin
wants to know
are you ready ready to go
and im a up to listenin on my can can beat(??)
cos its time to see its the past see
are you listenin
wants to know
are you ready ready to go
and im a up to listenin on my can can beat(??)
cos its time to see its the past see
when im on the road on the way to london
its the one when there gonna go frontman
its the uk sound the system
were gonna bring you up high
drops you down from the tops to the box
inbetween when you really want to rock
its the dancin sound the system
wants to see us fly by
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
so
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
but
would you please open up a that door
knock knock
ive been waitin outside for a while
and the knock knock shock when you watch up the clock
love or live it
and live it love or give it away
she's pretty happy
some of the time she wants to STEAL MY MONEY
do you ever have to be what you be
in the london when you see her and me
on the trains and buses and trust these cusses
they nothin more than a bit of bluffin on the rust of us
bit of this and bit of that and move on through
a bit of that and a bit of this and a lesson on you
but if you wanna go dancin enhancin
a pressure drop left right on a bong prancin
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you lookin like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
but
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
owah
blah blah stuff
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
so
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me byyyyyyy
move your car off the yellow line
get a real job you fuck
i just couldn't believe the news
i was always right and abuse her
on the corner the floor your home
and a cryin out loud to another floor
and a people are standin up to go home
and i aint even got a fuckin phone
and i want to use the bathroom please
won't let me out of the corner
are you listenin
wants to know
are you ready ready to go
and im a up to listenin on my can can beat(??)
cos its time to see its the past see
are you listenin
wants to know
are you ready ready to go
and im a up to listenin on my can can beat(??)
cos its time to see its the past see
when im on the road on the way to london
its the one when there gonna go frontman
its the uk sound the system
were gonna bring you up high
drops you down from the tops to the box
inbetween when you really want to rock
its the dancin sound the system
wants to see us fly by
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
so
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
but
would you please open up a that door
knock knock
ive been waitin outside for a while
and the knock knock shock when you watch up the clock
love or live it
and live it love or give it away
she's pretty happy
some of the time she wants to STEAL MY MONEY
do you ever have to be what you be
in the london when you see her and me
on the trains and buses and trust these cusses
they nothin more than a bit of bluffin on the rust of us
bit of this and bit of that and move on through
a bit of that and a bit of this and a lesson on you
but if you wanna go dancin enhancin
a pressure drop left right on a bong prancin
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you lookin like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
but
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
owah
blah blah stuff
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me by
so
do you have the time are you (vision??)
you look like shit your incoherrent
taking my time as i ever try
but as life seems to be passin me byyyyyyy
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