"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.
Let's meet at the mecca where
We munch on desserts let's order at a dining
Chain I'm ordering first
Can't decide on appetizers or
What sandwich to get
Can't deny it I'm excited
Gets my appetite whet
Homework's over parents snoring and I
Need to go roam phil picks me up in a jeep
A Suzuki that owns we ride on river road
While we're blastin' Reign in Blood
We're smoking swisher sweets
While we off road in the mud
After causing as much havoc as
We can in this town
After all the abandoned houses
And the burial grounds
We head over to Denny's where
We smoke and we flirt
Well I never do nothing see
I'm kind of a nerd
Don't drink don't smoke break
A cigarette in half i'm a drug free virgin I
Don't fit into the pack
They can tell that I am different
And they love me for that
Always good for a laugh always paying for gas
I'll take a cup of cocoa
And a slice of cookie pie
Take the junior in the corner
That is giving me the eye
Waitress gets a big tip
If she keeps bringing me fries
For not a lot of dollars
We'll make Denny's our dive
I got a little cash allowance from my daddy
I'll take a blender blast or
A moons over my hammy
Buy the table chicken fingers big
Spender in the house
Ambush someone with the cola
Cough sugar out my mouth
Cookie dough with the butters
Or a creamer suicide
Waiting for the order so we're
All just wasting time
Levitating forks no one knows how I do it
Food arrives at the table and
We're diving into it
Freaks in their flannels and
Their over sized denims
Most of them are hungry they've
Been fogging up lemons
Jocks hate them in the halls
Make fun of their hair
People treat them like they're freaks
But they probably don't care
I think they're cool feel like
I wasted four years
Horsefeathers in Waukegan sip on
Tea 'stead of beers
So trees makes an appearance
And we're feeling defiant
Suburban counter culture I really think
You should try it
I'll take a cup of cocoa
And a slice of cookie pie
Take the junior in the corner
That is giving me the eye
Waitress gets a big tip
If she keeps bringing me fries
For not a lot of dollars
We'll make Denny's our dive
One of us we accept you
One of us one of us
We accept you one of us
We munch on desserts let's order at a dining
Chain I'm ordering first
Can't decide on appetizers or
What sandwich to get
Can't deny it I'm excited
Gets my appetite whet
Homework's over parents snoring and I
Need to go roam phil picks me up in a jeep
A Suzuki that owns we ride on river road
While we're blastin' Reign in Blood
We're smoking swisher sweets
While we off road in the mud
After causing as much havoc as
We can in this town
After all the abandoned houses
And the burial grounds
We head over to Denny's where
We smoke and we flirt
Well I never do nothing see
I'm kind of a nerd
Don't drink don't smoke break
A cigarette in half i'm a drug free virgin I
Don't fit into the pack
They can tell that I am different
And they love me for that
Always good for a laugh always paying for gas
I'll take a cup of cocoa
And a slice of cookie pie
Take the junior in the corner
That is giving me the eye
Waitress gets a big tip
If she keeps bringing me fries
For not a lot of dollars
We'll make Denny's our dive
I got a little cash allowance from my daddy
I'll take a blender blast or
A moons over my hammy
Buy the table chicken fingers big
Spender in the house
Ambush someone with the cola
Cough sugar out my mouth
Cookie dough with the butters
Or a creamer suicide
Waiting for the order so we're
All just wasting time
Levitating forks no one knows how I do it
Food arrives at the table and
We're diving into it
Freaks in their flannels and
Their over sized denims
Most of them are hungry they've
Been fogging up lemons
Jocks hate them in the halls
Make fun of their hair
People treat them like they're freaks
But they probably don't care
I think they're cool feel like
I wasted four years
Horsefeathers in Waukegan sip on
Tea 'stead of beers
So trees makes an appearance
And we're feeling defiant
Suburban counter culture I really think
You should try it
I'll take a cup of cocoa
And a slice of cookie pie
Take the junior in the corner
That is giving me the eye
Waitress gets a big tip
If she keeps bringing me fries
For not a lot of dollars
We'll make Denny's our dive
One of us we accept you
One of us one of us
We accept you one of us
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Freaks Lyrics as written by Lindsay Robins Christopher William Ward
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The song is pretty straightforward, it's about fitting in with misfits and as it quite literally says "suburban counterculture" loitering at denny's etc. The song references some places from where MC grew up in Libertyville, IL. I was confused on a few so I looked them up. "Horsefeathers" is a jewelry store in Waukegan, IL that carries a bunch of other stuff (incense, etc.), possibly tea.
As for the line "We're not allowed in Downing's, so we'll make Denny's our dive", it is referring to a popular Libertyville Irish bar, Downing's, which they can't get into because they're underage. So instead their late-night 'dive' is Denny's.
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