"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.
Hurting me
Seems to be
Your passion
Misery
Is certainly
Your style
I'm like a kid in a candy store
I'm on my knees 'til i lick the floor
Can't stand to look at your face
But i'm burning for more
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
You're the star
In your own sad story
I'm just a toy
You can drag around
You're about as sick as you can be
A twisted abnormality
I don't want to be your first fatality
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Though your never ever funny
I just gotta laugh out loud
Cuz you keep me in stitches
Until the last thread of decency runs out
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Seems to be
Your passion
Misery
Is certainly
Your style
I'm like a kid in a candy store
I'm on my knees 'til i lick the floor
Can't stand to look at your face
But i'm burning for more
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
You're the star
In your own sad story
I'm just a toy
You can drag around
You're about as sick as you can be
A twisted abnormality
I don't want to be your first fatality
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Though your never ever funny
I just gotta laugh out loud
Cuz you keep me in stitches
Until the last thread of decency runs out
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Sharpest pain
The ugly scar
The deepest cut
Is what you are
The burning sting
Is what you bring
And you remain
The sharpest pain
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
The Sharpest Pain Lyrics as written by Ryan Roxie Alice Cooper
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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