"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.
I can?t laugh to hard I?m on a diet
I?m trying to lose myself
You ought to try it
Just starve for 6 days straight
Oh it?s a riot
Every Sunday night
I binge and I barf cause I carry the scars of an eight-year-old
Who?s mother applied the same rules to a kids body
As her own
I think you?ll leave me soon
Though I?ve no proof of it
But I?ll make it easier for you
By being a little bitch
And this is just the fear
But I think the reason
Why I?m scared you broke is
The only male influence I?ve had
After daddy went and left
Were my mother?s weekend lovers and
Their alcoholic breaths
I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects (the effects 2x)
Yes I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects (the effects 2x)
I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects
Yes I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects
I can?t laugh to hard I?m on a diet
I?m trying to lose myself
You ought to try it
Just starve for 6 days straight Oh it?s a riot
Every Sunday night
I?m trying to lose myself
You ought to try it
Just starve for 6 days straight
Oh it?s a riot
Every Sunday night
I binge and I barf cause I carry the scars of an eight-year-old
Who?s mother applied the same rules to a kids body
As her own
I think you?ll leave me soon
Though I?ve no proof of it
But I?ll make it easier for you
By being a little bitch
And this is just the fear
But I think the reason
Why I?m scared you broke is
The only male influence I?ve had
After daddy went and left
Were my mother?s weekend lovers and
Their alcoholic breaths
I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects (the effects 2x)
Yes I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects (the effects 2x)
I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects
Yes I?ll tell you what caused it
If you handle the effects
I can?t laugh to hard I?m on a diet
I?m trying to lose myself
You ought to try it
Just starve for 6 days straight Oh it?s a riot
Every Sunday night
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