"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.
on one you will be asleep, ten, nine, eight, you are feeling
drowsy, seven, six, you are falling into a deep, erotic sleep, five, four, your eyes are becoming heavier and heavier, you are getting closer, two, one, you are asleep
your self conscious mind is opening up to the power of my suggestion, you are feeling completely relaxed, listen to my voice, I will guide you, tell me of the first time you committed an atrocity? what was the turning point? when did you realize you were different from the other boys?
what does it mean, at the age of thirteen
to stuff the kids next door in the washing machine?
switch it to spin, stand back and laugh
then hang 'em by their nuts from a telegraph
pole, german, swedish, french and dutch too
the voices have been calling me eggsie since '82
it's not my fault, I can't be to blame
it's the voices in my head calling out my fucking name
you claim to be the embodiment of several different personas, each one seemingly more confusing and profound, search within your mind, who am I talking to now?
hi, rennie-la-lou, a new member of the crew,
on the doctors couch for all the bad things that I do
you mighta heard it on the south west news
busted by the police for shagging monkeys in the zoos
on the TV, but I walked away free
on the grounds of being mental since the age of three
you also talk of another character called Chon Ben Wa Balls
fuck you, searchin' my past
if you step to me, the next breath is your last
you wanna hypnotize, get behind my eyes
if you delve any further then you're in for a surprise
i like doing things that cause pain and distress
alone in the house, i'll make your mother undress
you'll never break me or take me alive
you got more chance of fucking Princess Di
after intensive hypnotic regression I have reached no solid conclusion, doctor gob-shite, you hold the destiny of the test subject in your hand, what is your opinion? are they to be punished?
mmm, let me ponder and let me think
these boys, they like to smoke and they like to fight and drink
their depravity defies the very gravity
of the the situation in which their minds revolve or so I think
well doc, what's the prognosis?
they said they'd find a cure if I went and did hypnosis
they find the root of my fucking psychosis
make me realize that my cause was hopeless
i fall asleep and questions they ask
like, 'let's take it back, back to your past'
i see the faces of the people i've known
it's like something out the fucking twilight zone
then I feel it, it starts to come near
the root of all my evil - draw, fags and beer
we are beginning to break into the un-subconcious mind to find out the real truth behind the goldie lookin' chain
GLC GLC GLC GLC
drowsy, seven, six, you are falling into a deep, erotic sleep, five, four, your eyes are becoming heavier and heavier, you are getting closer, two, one, you are asleep
your self conscious mind is opening up to the power of my suggestion, you are feeling completely relaxed, listen to my voice, I will guide you, tell me of the first time you committed an atrocity? what was the turning point? when did you realize you were different from the other boys?
what does it mean, at the age of thirteen
to stuff the kids next door in the washing machine?
switch it to spin, stand back and laugh
then hang 'em by their nuts from a telegraph
pole, german, swedish, french and dutch too
the voices have been calling me eggsie since '82
it's not my fault, I can't be to blame
it's the voices in my head calling out my fucking name
you claim to be the embodiment of several different personas, each one seemingly more confusing and profound, search within your mind, who am I talking to now?
hi, rennie-la-lou, a new member of the crew,
on the doctors couch for all the bad things that I do
you mighta heard it on the south west news
busted by the police for shagging monkeys in the zoos
on the TV, but I walked away free
on the grounds of being mental since the age of three
you also talk of another character called Chon Ben Wa Balls
fuck you, searchin' my past
if you step to me, the next breath is your last
you wanna hypnotize, get behind my eyes
if you delve any further then you're in for a surprise
i like doing things that cause pain and distress
alone in the house, i'll make your mother undress
you'll never break me or take me alive
you got more chance of fucking Princess Di
after intensive hypnotic regression I have reached no solid conclusion, doctor gob-shite, you hold the destiny of the test subject in your hand, what is your opinion? are they to be punished?
mmm, let me ponder and let me think
these boys, they like to smoke and they like to fight and drink
their depravity defies the very gravity
of the the situation in which their minds revolve or so I think
well doc, what's the prognosis?
they said they'd find a cure if I went and did hypnosis
they find the root of my fucking psychosis
make me realize that my cause was hopeless
i fall asleep and questions they ask
like, 'let's take it back, back to your past'
i see the faces of the people i've known
it's like something out the fucking twilight zone
then I feel it, it starts to come near
the root of all my evil - draw, fags and beer
we are beginning to break into the un-subconcious mind to find out the real truth behind the goldie lookin' chain
GLC GLC GLC GLC
Lyrics submitted by nagromnai
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