"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.
We did not fade from noise meditation
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
This is not to depict hesitation
A silent gesture for princess' pleasure
Awh see what heaven sent
Whoa whoa!
Awh straight from Heaven's Gate
Yeah yeah!
Awh see what heaven meant
Yeah yeah!
When it embraces hate
Yeah yeah!
Elastic dreams of vicious actions
Plastic stomachs wrapped in steel
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
Trash can Canterbury Hollywood Boulevard
Awh you can count on it
Yeah yeah
Richard Hell tacked to the wall
Whoa whoa!
Remember the Plunger Pit
Yeah yeah!
In love with nothing at all
Whoa whoa!
Our beards are circuits to amplifier
All our bells have an elite ring
Rapacious gardens of female distinction
Can you smell trouble
Libraries of rubble
I don't want to know
Whoa whoa!
Who gets the highest score
No no!
That's when my poodle pukes
Yeah yeah!
On the gallery floor
Whoa whoa!
We did not fade from the noise meditation
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
A silent gesture for princess' pleasure
Here comes Mary Rat
Whoa whoa!
Trudi tattooed to the wall
Whoa whoa!
Take me back to disgraceland
Yeah yeah!
In love with nothing at all
Yeah yeah!
Unh!
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
This is not to depict hesitation
A silent gesture for princess' pleasure
Awh see what heaven sent
Whoa whoa!
Awh straight from Heaven's Gate
Yeah yeah!
Awh see what heaven meant
Yeah yeah!
When it embraces hate
Yeah yeah!
Elastic dreams of vicious actions
Plastic stomachs wrapped in steel
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
Trash can Canterbury Hollywood Boulevard
Awh you can count on it
Yeah yeah
Richard Hell tacked to the wall
Whoa whoa!
Remember the Plunger Pit
Yeah yeah!
In love with nothing at all
Whoa whoa!
Our beards are circuits to amplifier
All our bells have an elite ring
Rapacious gardens of female distinction
Can you smell trouble
Libraries of rubble
I don't want to know
Whoa whoa!
Who gets the highest score
No no!
That's when my poodle pukes
Yeah yeah!
On the gallery floor
Whoa whoa!
We did not fade from the noise meditation
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
A silent gesture for princess' pleasure
Here comes Mary Rat
Whoa whoa!
Trudi tattooed to the wall
Whoa whoa!
Take me back to disgraceland
Yeah yeah!
In love with nothing at all
Yeah yeah!
Unh!
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Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn Lyrics as written by Lee M Ranaldo Kim A Gordon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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