"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.
Saturday, Saturday don't stay home
Robot girls at the Monsterdome
70 feet tall and 20 feet wide
X-rated robot genocide
Death Orgy 9000
Saturday, Saturday feel the pain
Insatiable Amazon robots unchained
Demolition derby one of a kind
Bring welding goggles or just go blind
Death Orgy 9000
You'll be dumbstruck in humbled awe
By android supermodels in the raw
Anatomically correct with perfect skin
They'll soon be piles of useless tin
Death Orgy 9000
They preen and prance in a deadly flirt
Their pumps are caked with blood and dirt
Chromium kneecaps connect with groins
Oil bleeds down their anodized loins
Death Orgy 9000
Big Daddy Don Garlits!
Tractor pull!
Egg toss!
Zealous fans throw burning trash
Rubber parts char into chunks of ash
Slave pots towing ruined limbs
And the children's choir sings pagan hymns
Death Orgy 9000
Death Orgy 9000
It's all paws and claws out there
The crowd goes still as the lights go red
On ruined girls in a carnage bed
All at once with a searing whine
Dismembered parts start to bump and grind
Oh my god, she's going to get her whole wrist in there!
Yeah, it's a trip
Retaliating with a laser cat scratch!
They start to kiss and you heal the squeal
Of chainsaw teeth on lips of steel
Sparks fly off their gridlocked loins
Finest death sex in Des Moines
I don't believe it she twisted her arm in the flag high onto the ropes winding a dynamic cerebral vertex into a vice crusher hold
Ah, gets her gut-punch in, takes a hemorrhaging lipo-separation crashing to the rodeo floor
Hard-body wrecker slut frottage wars
Shrapnel spectacle, simple core
One day only don't miss this event
Consider your thousand bucks well spent
Once, twice, three times around the black pole into a centerfold triple axel roundhouse lunge!
It's all paws and claws out there
Death Orgy 9000
Yeah, Death Orgy 9000
Wow, circling, circling into a death spiral eye gouge!
That squealing sounds good
Death Orgy 9000
Oh, what a claw drive! It's a maximum hiss slug fest out there! The iron-girl match of the century!
Bring the family
First 3000 patrons get a free cap
It's masturbating terribly now, and it looks like the claw's ready to go into climax strangulation mode! The match is all over! And the claw makes all good in only three rounds!
Kids under 12 are free
Cold blooded
Death Orgy 9000
It's no picnic...
(Anybody out there with tickets to Death Orgy 9000? Over…)
Robot girls at the Monsterdome
70 feet tall and 20 feet wide
X-rated robot genocide
Death Orgy 9000
Saturday, Saturday feel the pain
Insatiable Amazon robots unchained
Demolition derby one of a kind
Bring welding goggles or just go blind
Death Orgy 9000
You'll be dumbstruck in humbled awe
By android supermodels in the raw
Anatomically correct with perfect skin
They'll soon be piles of useless tin
Death Orgy 9000
They preen and prance in a deadly flirt
Their pumps are caked with blood and dirt
Chromium kneecaps connect with groins
Oil bleeds down their anodized loins
Death Orgy 9000
Big Daddy Don Garlits!
Tractor pull!
Egg toss!
Zealous fans throw burning trash
Rubber parts char into chunks of ash
Slave pots towing ruined limbs
And the children's choir sings pagan hymns
Death Orgy 9000
Death Orgy 9000
It's all paws and claws out there
The crowd goes still as the lights go red
On ruined girls in a carnage bed
All at once with a searing whine
Dismembered parts start to bump and grind
Oh my god, she's going to get her whole wrist in there!
Yeah, it's a trip
Retaliating with a laser cat scratch!
They start to kiss and you heal the squeal
Of chainsaw teeth on lips of steel
Sparks fly off their gridlocked loins
Finest death sex in Des Moines
I don't believe it she twisted her arm in the flag high onto the ropes winding a dynamic cerebral vertex into a vice crusher hold
Ah, gets her gut-punch in, takes a hemorrhaging lipo-separation crashing to the rodeo floor
Hard-body wrecker slut frottage wars
Shrapnel spectacle, simple core
One day only don't miss this event
Consider your thousand bucks well spent
Once, twice, three times around the black pole into a centerfold triple axel roundhouse lunge!
It's all paws and claws out there
Death Orgy 9000
Yeah, Death Orgy 9000
Wow, circling, circling into a death spiral eye gouge!
That squealing sounds good
Death Orgy 9000
Oh, what a claw drive! It's a maximum hiss slug fest out there! The iron-girl match of the century!
Bring the family
First 3000 patrons get a free cap
It's masturbating terribly now, and it looks like the claw's ready to go into climax strangulation mode! The match is all over! And the claw makes all good in only three rounds!
Kids under 12 are free
Cold blooded
Death Orgy 9000
It's no picnic...
(Anybody out there with tickets to Death Orgy 9000? Over…)
Lyrics submitted by Topchris
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Great version of a great song,
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