"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.
{Obama}
We're in the middle of the worse economic crisis since the great depression
760,000 workers have lossed their jobs just since the beginning of this year
I'll tell you what we're gonna do
Whatever happened to cities on the moon
I wanna car that runs on water
You think we'll ever go back to the moon
Well I don't really care, I wanna dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) of the 21st century
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) It's a 21st century crime
{Obama}
Businesses and families can't get credit
Home values are plumetting here in florida
You know what's happening in terms of foreclosures
Pensions are disappearing
You ever heard about World Hunger
Whatever happened to cities on the moon
No I don't care about Global Warming
I just wanna go to the dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
Yea I just wanna go to the dance with you
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) of the 21st century
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) It's a 21st century crime
(What a waste, such a waste) X2
{Obama}
It's gotten harder and harder to make the morgatge
or fill up your gas tank
Or keep the electricity on again anymore
Across the country we saw the largest decline in consumer spending in 28 years
As wages failed to keep up with rising cost of living
Folks have to watch every penny, tighten their belts
Now all this didn't happen by accident our failing GDP is a direct result of a failed economic theory
of 8 years of trickeled down wall street first, Main street last,
Policies that have driven our economy into a ditch.
We're in the middle of the worse economic crisis since the great depression
760,000 workers have lossed their jobs just since the beginning of this year
I'll tell you what we're gonna do
Whatever happened to cities on the moon
I wanna car that runs on water
You think we'll ever go back to the moon
Well I don't really care, I wanna dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) of the 21st century
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) It's a 21st century crime
{Obama}
Businesses and families can't get credit
Home values are plumetting here in florida
You know what's happening in terms of foreclosures
Pensions are disappearing
You ever heard about World Hunger
Whatever happened to cities on the moon
No I don't care about Global Warming
I just wanna go to the dance with you
I just wanna go to the dance with you
Yea I just wanna go to the dance with you
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) of the 21st century
(what a waste) It's the crime of a century
(such a waste) It's a 21st century crime
(What a waste, such a waste) X2
{Obama}
It's gotten harder and harder to make the morgatge
or fill up your gas tank
Or keep the electricity on again anymore
Across the country we saw the largest decline in consumer spending in 28 years
As wages failed to keep up with rising cost of living
Folks have to watch every penny, tighten their belts
Now all this didn't happen by accident our failing GDP is a direct result of a failed economic theory
of 8 years of trickeled down wall street first, Main street last,
Policies that have driven our economy into a ditch.
Lyrics submitted by ledzepp1161991
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