"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.
Most nights I dream about you dead
I want to set fire to all our things
How can you smother your own urge?
I wish I'd never tried to integrate you
I want to make you pay for all the soul I lent you
I want you to confess your life is safely soulless
You've subdued your desire and everybody knows
You think you're concealed but in your voice it shows
Oh no, in your voice it shows
(The worst thing you could be is somebody is love with me?)
You hate yourself, oh no, and in your voice it shows
Let us go back to the hotel
I never knew that I could feel so tended
Who knew one day I would wake up
In a world that can retract its fortunes?
I want you to admit you're so ashamed of yourself
I know I'm one to talk, at least I try to own it
You've siphoned my empathy and I want you exposed
You think you're clean but in your heart you know
Oh no, in your heart you know
(The thing you're running from is something we are all made of)
You're one of us, oh no, and in your heart you know
I can retreat no further
As far as history goes, I am dead
But I have found God and he is insufficient
All we do is abuse each other
Where do you think he learned it, mother?
Where do you think I learned it, mother?
Bloodless mutilation pierces bone and marrow
My assimilation, tormentor fed infernos
Look into my eyes and say "Why don't you cum like a good boy?"
Spit in your hand and make me cum like a good boy
You freaked out when I found a tissue you masturbated into
I took comfort in knowing I wasn't the only thing you came into
Crumpled up and threw in the trash
I want to set fire to all our things
How can you smother your own urge?
I wish I'd never tried to integrate you
I want to make you pay for all the soul I lent you
I want you to confess your life is safely soulless
You've subdued your desire and everybody knows
You think you're concealed but in your voice it shows
Oh no, in your voice it shows
(The worst thing you could be is somebody is love with me?)
You hate yourself, oh no, and in your voice it shows
Let us go back to the hotel
I never knew that I could feel so tended
Who knew one day I would wake up
In a world that can retract its fortunes?
I want you to admit you're so ashamed of yourself
I know I'm one to talk, at least I try to own it
You've siphoned my empathy and I want you exposed
You think you're clean but in your heart you know
Oh no, in your heart you know
(The thing you're running from is something we are all made of)
You're one of us, oh no, and in your heart you know
I can retreat no further
As far as history goes, I am dead
But I have found God and he is insufficient
All we do is abuse each other
Where do you think he learned it, mother?
Where do you think I learned it, mother?
Bloodless mutilation pierces bone and marrow
My assimilation, tormentor fed infernos
Look into my eyes and say "Why don't you cum like a good boy?"
Spit in your hand and make me cum like a good boy
You freaked out when I found a tissue you masturbated into
I took comfort in knowing I wasn't the only thing you came into
Crumpled up and threw in the trash
Lyrics submitted by 404error
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