"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.
the holy scientific elite at the top the daisy chain
livermore lab and u.c., tuition part of the daisy chain
blind eyed the winter sun is ever brighter
the warm september shine
grind on, because the juice that primes the trigger won't fade
pay your tax and bills or get yanked off the rig of the daisy chain
dig down deeper than deep, tech it up for the daisy chain
blind eyed the winter sun is ever brighter
the warm september shine
grind on, because the juice that primes the trigger won't fade
livermore lab and u.c., tuition part of the daisy chain
blind eyed the winter sun is ever brighter
the warm september shine
grind on, because the juice that primes the trigger won't fade
pay your tax and bills or get yanked off the rig of the daisy chain
dig down deeper than deep, tech it up for the daisy chain
blind eyed the winter sun is ever brighter
the warm september shine
grind on, because the juice that primes the trigger won't fade
Lyrics submitted by Spyral2112
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grotus uncharacteristically give few specifics here, which may be why "daisy chain" strikes me as one of their more successful songs. the daisy chain might be the military-industrial complex, a common ax ground around the time 'brown' was released: lawrence livermore lab and, forty miles to the west, u.c. berkeley were important research-and-development wings of the nuclear-arms race, and they remain so; "the juice that primes the trigger won't fade" is probably a reference to the billions in federal funding for weapons development pouring into those institutions. if so, that would make the second appearance on 'brown' of a flower as a war metaphor (see "morning glory"). there's also an interesting resonance with global warming in the lines "blind eyed the winter sun is ever brighter / the warm september shine," but that could just as easily refer to the prospect of a nuclear winter, which we ignore, "blind eyed," in favor of the material benefits bestowed by military dominance.