"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.
M to the
A to the
D to the
M to the
I - K - E
But you can call me
MAD MIKE M.C.
I'm in the Bootle Volleyers, that's a gang
I represent my hood yeah I'm making a stand
I take the train way up past Sandhills station
To the New Strand, you hear my G communication?
I love this district, its a real hot honey
We're all successful bro's with pockets full of money
Got two cars parked in the driveway
One's on fire, night and day
Hey you hater, on your bike!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
Hey you toddler, on your trike!
Tell your mum and your dad to
Dial M For Mad Mike
(Now let me give ya a history lesson)
In World War Two, Bootle felt the Blitz
90 percent of the bombs were direct hits
But we built back, you can't keep us down
We took that battle and we turned it around
Housing Estates, yeah, the bloody way forward
Gonna build houses on your bloody apple orchard
Dreary and grey, mmm, just the way I like it
You go against Bootle, you know we gonna fight it
Hey you Nazi, with your third reich!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
Hey you fisherman, with your pike!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
M to the
A to the
D to the
M to the
I - K - E
But you can call me
MAD MIKE M.C.
A to the
D to the
M to the
I - K - E
But you can call me
MAD MIKE M.C.
I'm in the Bootle Volleyers, that's a gang
I represent my hood yeah I'm making a stand
I take the train way up past Sandhills station
To the New Strand, you hear my G communication?
I love this district, its a real hot honey
We're all successful bro's with pockets full of money
Got two cars parked in the driveway
One's on fire, night and day
Hey you hater, on your bike!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
Hey you toddler, on your trike!
Tell your mum and your dad to
Dial M For Mad Mike
(Now let me give ya a history lesson)
In World War Two, Bootle felt the Blitz
90 percent of the bombs were direct hits
But we built back, you can't keep us down
We took that battle and we turned it around
Housing Estates, yeah, the bloody way forward
Gonna build houses on your bloody apple orchard
Dreary and grey, mmm, just the way I like it
You go against Bootle, you know we gonna fight it
Hey you Nazi, with your third reich!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
Hey you fisherman, with your pike!
Pick up the phone
Dial M For Mad Mike
M to the
A to the
D to the
M to the
I - K - E
But you can call me
MAD MIKE M.C.
Lyrics submitted by DannyLaSombra
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