"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.
I placed by and I wonder why,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
I divide and I multiply,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Sensations versus thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
Same old song, what’s going on?
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
[Chorus]
I come by and all is fly,
Generate, generate, generate.
You got no how, I got to know now,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Sensations versus thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it’s beginning.
Get her CD, haven’t sworn,
Generate, generate, generate.
[Chorus]
Sensations judged thinking,
Equation no good for nothing.
Fast crash fear us some theme,
Fast track feel us some theme.
I can’t get behind a war track mind,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Rising suns put you on the re-run,
Generate, generate, generate.
Sensations got me thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
God keeps an upper thumb,
Generate, generate, generate.
[Chorus]
Sensations judge my thinking
Oh, no, no, no good for nothing.
Fast crash fearless and theme,
Flashtrack fear us a theme.
Cascade and I go,
Accelerate and I go,
Sensations judge my thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it’s beginning.
Fast crash fearless and fear
Flashtrack fear us a theme.
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
I divide and I multiply,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Sensations versus thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
Same old song, what’s going on?
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
[Chorus]
I come by and all is fly,
Generate, generate, generate.
You got no how, I got to know now,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Sensations versus thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it’s beginning.
Get her CD, haven’t sworn,
Generate, generate, generate.
[Chorus]
Sensations judged thinking,
Equation no good for nothing.
Fast crash fear us some theme,
Fast track feel us some theme.
I can’t get behind a war track mind,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Rising suns put you on the re-run,
Generate, generate, generate.
Sensations got me thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
God keeps an upper thumb,
Generate, generate, generate.
[Chorus]
Sensations judge my thinking
Oh, no, no, no good for nothing.
Fast crash fearless and theme,
Flashtrack fear us a theme.
Cascade and I go,
Accelerate and I go,
Sensations judge my thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it’s beginning.
Fast crash fearless and fear
Flashtrack fear us a theme.
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Generate! Generate! Lyrics as written by Johnny Marr James Doviak
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