"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.
Under the milk float, gravity objects
Positive breakthrough and now where's my hovercraft?
Nikola Tesla, father of the brain
A terrible dresser that man
Paused at the shop to restock on virgins' blood
Black and white, it's all hemoglobin
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just boy
With the brightest future
Over the weekend, everybody died
Something infectious but yet something wonderful
Bobby Gomora, I saw him on the bus
Making his eyelids a grievo-
-Us, on the beams with the label clear as mud
Got a friend and a new placenta
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Suit yourself, there's nothing like a military coup
The clothes are great and everybody loves a curfew
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Suit yourself, there's nothing like a military coup
The clothes are great, and everyone loves a curfew
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Scarred for life
I chiseled on the cherry chopping chest
It let me down, it made me up
And left me compressed
I flew business class
I drank too much, I can't remember
But if a heart won't start
I won't get home until September
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the widest wingspan
Just a boy just a boy
With a Cancun boarding pass
Just a boy just a piece of work
Positive breakthrough and now where's my hovercraft?
Nikola Tesla, father of the brain
A terrible dresser that man
Paused at the shop to restock on virgins' blood
Black and white, it's all hemoglobin
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just boy
With the brightest future
Over the weekend, everybody died
Something infectious but yet something wonderful
Bobby Gomora, I saw him on the bus
Making his eyelids a grievo-
-Us, on the beams with the label clear as mud
Got a friend and a new placenta
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Suit yourself, there's nothing like a military coup
The clothes are great and everybody loves a curfew
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Suit yourself, there's nothing like a military coup
The clothes are great, and everyone loves a curfew
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the brightest future
Scarred for life
I chiseled on the cherry chopping chest
It let me down, it made me up
And left me compressed
I flew business class
I drank too much, I can't remember
But if a heart won't start
I won't get home until September
Roy, just a boy just a boy
With the biggest head in school
Just a boy just a boy
With the widest wingspan
Just a boy just a boy
With a Cancun boarding pass
Just a boy just a piece of work
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