"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.
Floorfiller
Floorfiller
Floorfiller
Hey Mr. DJ in case you forgot
I came to get down
So you better make it hot
'Cause I can't jump around when I hear
Groove killers
When I'm out sitting down, it's a clear
Time stealer
Give me a track
With a phat kinda beat
A groove so unique
That it kicks me off my seat
'Cause I won't find a mood with a new
Spine chiller
When the crowd hits the room, it's a true
Crowd thriller
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
Crank up the bass
I can raise up the roof
???
Come and knock me with the groove
Gotta boom
Shake the room
'Cause we're all
Heat seekers
With a jam that can slam down the walls
Mind freakers
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
You know by the sounds
When the crowd is getting wild
Hands swinging high
Like a chopper in the sky
But a slow bump or flow ain't the way
Floor freezer
See the name of the game is to play
Crowd pleaser
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
Floorfiller
Floorfiller
Hey Mr. DJ in case you forgot
I came to get down
So you better make it hot
'Cause I can't jump around when I hear
Groove killers
When I'm out sitting down, it's a clear
Time stealer
Give me a track
With a phat kinda beat
A groove so unique
That it kicks me off my seat
'Cause I won't find a mood with a new
Spine chiller
When the crowd hits the room, it's a true
Crowd thriller
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
Crank up the bass
I can raise up the roof
???
Come and knock me with the groove
Gotta boom
Shake the room
'Cause we're all
Heat seekers
With a jam that can slam down the walls
Mind freakers
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
You know by the sounds
When the crowd is getting wild
Hands swinging high
Like a chopper in the sky
But a slow bump or flow ain't the way
Floor freezer
See the name of the game is to play
Crowd pleaser
Freeze
Better make it hot
Music please
Know the spot
Play that funky music
That is how we want it
Floorfiller
That is how we need it
Floorfiller
Something's out of order
People in the corners
Don't you see it
Can't you feel it
Floorfiller
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Floorfiller Lyrics as written by Markus Sephermanesh Gustav Robert Jonsson
Lyrics © CTM Outlander Music LC, CTM OUTLANDER MUSIC LP
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