"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.
Fuck the voice of a generation
I just wanna be who I am
No one can change or guide me
I'm content with where I stand
So fuck the voice of a generation
You can stand on your own two feet
Hooligans from across the nation
Sing my songs when you mob the street
This is who we are, we are a product of war
In the grain of our skin, we think this is it
Portrayed by a stigma that won't let us out
By choice it's a sin, if not I'm just dead
Alive isn't free when your lies cost me this
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
I just wish that this itching I have
To be different somehow, would escape me
Cause all these obstacles make it difficult
When you're just trying to change me
At least when we stand together
I'm not the only soul trapped in limbo
By this breed of prima donnas
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
Why do they wanna make us conform
Worship their words, I'll admit that I'm sold but
The fact that you consider yourself a god
Is the very reason you should fall the fuck off
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
I just wanna be who I am
No one can change or guide me
I'm content with where I stand
So fuck the voice of a generation
You can stand on your own two feet
Hooligans from across the nation
Sing my songs when you mob the street
This is who we are, we are a product of war
In the grain of our skin, we think this is it
Portrayed by a stigma that won't let us out
By choice it's a sin, if not I'm just dead
Alive isn't free when your lies cost me this
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
I just wish that this itching I have
To be different somehow, would escape me
Cause all these obstacles make it difficult
When you're just trying to change me
At least when we stand together
I'm not the only soul trapped in limbo
By this breed of prima donnas
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
Why do they wanna make us conform
Worship their words, I'll admit that I'm sold but
The fact that you consider yourself a god
Is the very reason you should fall the fuck off
Smooth talker and a heart breaker
But you are nothing but a cheap thinker
Buying them off for lower than you're worth
This is who we are, a product of war
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Personality Cult Lyrics as written by Derek Carter Adrian Rebollo
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