"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.
Stand back storm troopers attack
On a bright may-day man
I must be gettin' soft
I dunno, what do you think mister?
Looks like ten fat pigs in a nine pig trough
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Sittin' back of the class
Iron chains, lead weights, taught rope,
holdin' down my will.
I dunno, what do you think mister?
I say we do anything just to take that hill.
Hey!
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
The sky is falling,
falling down.
The sky is falling down.
The world stoped turning,
turning round.
The world stops turning round,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Silent Night and the wind crashes right,
Put a wig on the heiress
Rob the bank and pray.
No I dunno, what do you think mister?
Don't do as I do, just do as I say!
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Yeah the lights are on is Spidertown
Hey!
On a bright may-day man
I must be gettin' soft
I dunno, what do you think mister?
Looks like ten fat pigs in a nine pig trough
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Sittin' back of the class
Iron chains, lead weights, taught rope,
holdin' down my will.
I dunno, what do you think mister?
I say we do anything just to take that hill.
Hey!
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
The sky is falling,
falling down.
The sky is falling down.
The world stoped turning,
turning round.
The world stops turning round,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Silent Night and the wind crashes right,
Put a wig on the heiress
Rob the bank and pray.
No I dunno, what do you think mister?
Don't do as I do, just do as I say!
Die Diediedie,
Diediedie, diediedie, (Hey, Hey!)
Die diediedie,
And the lights are on in Spidertown
Yeah the lights are on is Spidertown
Hey!
Lyrics submitted by ZDLR my idol!
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