"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.
They settled in natural or sophisticated sceneries
Where they cultivate an air of death
Big broken baby dolls maybe fucked
And we love them
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
Bodies of the sick held prisoners
Sunken shoulders and giant pubis
The flesh has disappeared
The bones are almost bare
And yet we love them
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
I've closed the magazine
Returned it to the lady
I was feeling nauseous, I don't wanna watch them anymore
It's horrible and depressing
It's an insult to their beauty
All those beauties in ruins
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
All those beauties in ruins
Where they cultivate an air of death
Big broken baby dolls maybe fucked
And we love them
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
Bodies of the sick held prisoners
Sunken shoulders and giant pubis
The flesh has disappeared
The bones are almost bare
And yet we love them
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
I've closed the magazine
Returned it to the lady
I was feeling nauseous, I don't wanna watch them anymore
It's horrible and depressing
It's an insult to their beauty
All those beauties in ruins
They are so meager
They're scaring me
They look so sour
And full of pain
Oh it's horrible to see
All those beauties in ruins
Lyrics submitted by Maricha
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I would like to share this song with you people. The song has been written and played by a famous French group, Les Rita Mitsouko. It is so beautiful and weird... and Serj’s voice always a pleasure for my ears !
Okay, but why naming Tankian as original author when he only featured on the Les Rita Mitsouko's song?