"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.
Draggin a lake/ draggin a kettlebell/
Nothing ever gets done/ nothing ever just makes/ so much dismantle/
Nothing ever gets done/ never people in place/
Every never is now/ every never is now/
Find a base/ hold your space/ like a Spartan/
Never fill in the blanks/ let em hang in the ranks/
Let em crowd up/ never cut to the chase (or)/
Skip to the bullets and blaze/ watch em get loud/
Take it/ title to credits/
Every never is now/ every never is now/
Clear a space/ let it out/ okay/
Chew at the trap/ just a hobby/ a fact/
An option to counter the doubt/ Im so cozy without/
Watch em gather whats hunted/ and shove in they mouth/
See the trouble is humble is over/ and modesty suffers it out/
Honestly tougher than tissue is now/
Leather is/ gone with the horse and the plow/
Never better when better wont do/
Bet on that/ they gonna pedal the cure/
Coca Cola gave how much to who?
Words subvert subdue/ let em sell it to you/ (you you)/
Nothings better than aiming at nothing/ and hitting your mark/
Everyones famous/ now we can just sit in the dark/
And wait/ draggin a lake/ draggin a kettlebell/
Nothing ever gets done/ so quick with the take/
So quick with the show and tell/
Everybody is number one/ never nothing for you huh?/
(Every never is now)
Take two and call/ when you need a few more/
You can beat at the door they dont sleep/
They dont need it/ killin the shakes/ keeping the spins huh/
Nothing ever gets done/ so carried away/ now carry the burden/
Nothing ever gets done/ never no one for you huh?/
(Every never is now x4)/ draggin a lake/
Keeping the cool clothes/ nothing ever gets done/
Skippin the change/ keeping the fools gold/
Everybodys so shiny and new/ (new new)/
Look at you/ you got so much to for the work you put in/
Look at you/ (you you)/ stay helping yourself/ fill up on the bread/
Ill be the ground/ nobody gets me down/
Ill be the bridge/ fall from the highest ledge/
Rubbed so raw so wrong so vigorous/
Twist that bleed that venom get rid of it all/ (every never is now)
Dont sweat nothing/ dont mention it/
Dont wait anything but forward is a waste of time/
(Every never is now)/
Ill be the ground/ nobody gets me down/ living in the crowd/
Ill be the bridge/ fall from the highest ledge/ sleeping in the ditch
Nothing ever gets done/ nothing ever just makes/ so much dismantle/
Nothing ever gets done/ never people in place/
Every never is now/ every never is now/
Find a base/ hold your space/ like a Spartan/
Never fill in the blanks/ let em hang in the ranks/
Let em crowd up/ never cut to the chase (or)/
Skip to the bullets and blaze/ watch em get loud/
Take it/ title to credits/
Every never is now/ every never is now/
Clear a space/ let it out/ okay/
Chew at the trap/ just a hobby/ a fact/
An option to counter the doubt/ Im so cozy without/
Watch em gather whats hunted/ and shove in they mouth/
See the trouble is humble is over/ and modesty suffers it out/
Honestly tougher than tissue is now/
Leather is/ gone with the horse and the plow/
Never better when better wont do/
Bet on that/ they gonna pedal the cure/
Coca Cola gave how much to who?
Words subvert subdue/ let em sell it to you/ (you you)/
Nothings better than aiming at nothing/ and hitting your mark/
Everyones famous/ now we can just sit in the dark/
And wait/ draggin a lake/ draggin a kettlebell/
Nothing ever gets done/ so quick with the take/
So quick with the show and tell/
Everybody is number one/ never nothing for you huh?/
(Every never is now)
Take two and call/ when you need a few more/
You can beat at the door they dont sleep/
They dont need it/ killin the shakes/ keeping the spins huh/
Nothing ever gets done/ so carried away/ now carry the burden/
Nothing ever gets done/ never no one for you huh?/
(Every never is now x4)/ draggin a lake/
Keeping the cool clothes/ nothing ever gets done/
Skippin the change/ keeping the fools gold/
Everybodys so shiny and new/ (new new)/
Look at you/ you got so much to for the work you put in/
Look at you/ (you you)/ stay helping yourself/ fill up on the bread/
Ill be the ground/ nobody gets me down/
Ill be the bridge/ fall from the highest ledge/
Rubbed so raw so wrong so vigorous/
Twist that bleed that venom get rid of it all/ (every never is now)
Dont sweat nothing/ dont mention it/
Dont wait anything but forward is a waste of time/
(Every never is now)/
Ill be the ground/ nobody gets me down/ living in the crowd/
Ill be the bridge/ fall from the highest ledge/ sleeping in the ditch
Lyrics submitted by liesnevermiss
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