"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.
Won't you take me back to Texas, where the parking lots are home
Won't you take me back to Texas, where it's warm
Do you remember the edges of october? (so for something to be made the fly?)??
The sum of our hangovers laid out before us, stretched to where the desert touches sky
In flashes of sleep deprivation, the orders collapsed and the borders are missed
But i swear i've never been so far from home
For every one who's names we lost or were too drunk or tired to ask
Oh dispossessed house-guest, we ghosted the midwest
and settled where the desert touches sky
In flashes of sleep deprivation, the orders collapsed and the borders are missed
But i swear i've never been so far from home
(I've nevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
But i swear i've never been so
Far from home i swear i've never been
It's a milestone i'm sure
With the parents screaming murder in the hall
Martyrs spraying shadows on the lawn
Of the colour Kodak new
Is this magic? Is this heaven for you?
You think
The world's just gonna' fall into yr arms
Like so many free drinks bought by strangers in strange bars (I could go on)
Well if you faked yr way this far, then compromise seems, er, unromantic! (I could go on)
Clutch yr last years festival wristbands like medals from a war you think you think you fought
Well honey, you could cut diamonds on those lips, and that dreads a short stay for a steed, and you still lost
I could go on, i could go on, I COULD GO ON!
Hanging branches of yr stories
And its not like I don't think yr a cheat when they've all got the same plot
You get the badges, you get the booze and the you get the boys
I could go on!
Johnny foreigner, the mandy morbid of indie rock
Never gotten to catch a flight but we've sure seen a lot of cock
We're aiming shots out of blanks and hope to god we're still hurt
Cause between you, and us, and her? I think that's all we've got.
Won't you take me back to Texas, where it's warm
Do you remember the edges of october? (so for something to be made the fly?)??
The sum of our hangovers laid out before us, stretched to where the desert touches sky
In flashes of sleep deprivation, the orders collapsed and the borders are missed
But i swear i've never been so far from home
For every one who's names we lost or were too drunk or tired to ask
Oh dispossessed house-guest, we ghosted the midwest
and settled where the desert touches sky
In flashes of sleep deprivation, the orders collapsed and the borders are missed
But i swear i've never been so far from home
(I've nevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
But i swear i've never been so
Far from home i swear i've never been
It's a milestone i'm sure
With the parents screaming murder in the hall
Martyrs spraying shadows on the lawn
Of the colour Kodak new
Is this magic? Is this heaven for you?
You think
The world's just gonna' fall into yr arms
Like so many free drinks bought by strangers in strange bars (I could go on)
Well if you faked yr way this far, then compromise seems, er, unromantic! (I could go on)
Clutch yr last years festival wristbands like medals from a war you think you think you fought
Well honey, you could cut diamonds on those lips, and that dreads a short stay for a steed, and you still lost
I could go on, i could go on, I COULD GO ON!
Hanging branches of yr stories
And its not like I don't think yr a cheat when they've all got the same plot
You get the badges, you get the booze and the you get the boys
I could go on!
Johnny foreigner, the mandy morbid of indie rock
Never gotten to catch a flight but we've sure seen a lot of cock
We're aiming shots out of blanks and hope to god we're still hurt
Cause between you, and us, and her? I think that's all we've got.
Lyrics submitted by WhatGuitaristsGet
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Infinite laffs at the irony, but this is a Johnny Foreigner song, not a Los Campesinos! one.