"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.
Yeah
Yeah
I broke the breadline
Nobody knows
I walked the front line
Still got far to go
I mixed the water
I drank the water
I broke the breadline
Don't wanna know
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name, you know where to find me, yeah
I killed the manchild
I'll fast alone
I had the midwife
Naked and alone
I mixed the water
I drank the water
I killed the brainchild
I'll fast alone
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name you know where to find me, yeah
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
Don't wanna lead me to your, to your home
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name you know where to find me
I killed the manchild
I had the midwife
I drank the water, I stand alone
I broke the breadline
I walked the front-line
Don't know my name you know where to find me, yeah
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
Yeah
I broke the breadline
Nobody knows
I walked the front line
Still got far to go
I mixed the water
I drank the water
I broke the breadline
Don't wanna know
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name, you know where to find me, yeah
I killed the manchild
I'll fast alone
I had the midwife
Naked and alone
I mixed the water
I drank the water
I killed the brainchild
I'll fast alone
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name you know where to find me, yeah
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
Don't wanna lead me to your, to your home
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
It's staring me down
Wearing a crown
Of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name you know where to find me
I killed the manchild
I had the midwife
I drank the water, I stand alone
I broke the breadline
I walked the front-line
Don't know my name you know where to find me, yeah
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
Yeah
Don't wanna let me be a man
Yeah
Don't wanna lead me to your home
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i think this song is about someone who is a serial killer that killed for many years and never got caught.... and hes just reflecting on his life as an older man
i broke the breadline nobody knows - a reference to the fact he was never caught
i killed the manchild ill fast alone - reference to a killing he did
It's staring me down Wearing a crown of apathy - perhaps hes looking in the mirror thinking about the man he has become and how we has no regrets for his actions
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Don't wanna lead me to your home - bc youll be fucking killed
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