"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.
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up
and get your tickets to the greatest show on Earth!
Where you'll witness death defying feats and acts
of whisky guzzling debauchery
I want to see you
So get the fuck up!
It's high noon when you step into the pit
its' a monsters ball and they're digging a ditch
For the sunburnt, the weary, the ones who won't last
In this cyclone of flesh, this cathartic mix
When the broken limbs are leading the match
It's the ringmaster's itch we're amassed to scrath
With the crack of the whip the caries run in
To devour the beast that beats on drums of flesh
Blistered, embattled you fall to submission
To complete the mission you rally and rise
2-3-4
Slack-jawed and entranced you're torched by the sun
You've caught the fever, the days just begun to burn
Yeah!
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
Hey you there in the neo-thrash prog math whatever metal shirt
And cut off jeans trying to sneak away
Don't leave yet, the best part of the show is just about to begin
It's not over till the pretty ladies scream
So get the fuck up!
Brothers in arms we shake our devil sticks together
As we climb the walls of jagged bones together
As you float away on a bed of callused hands with the crest in sight
Now it's time to go over the edge
You take a decadent fall, behind the velvet rope
You join the man on stilts the juggler winks and tosses you a ball
Before you know it you're part of it all
Yeah!
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
Ladies and gentlemen
Step right up and get your ticket
To the greatest show on Earth
We've never felt this free
When I'm stepping blindly
Cause we've never been so free
My acrobatic army
Ladies and Gentlemen
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop
No you can't stop
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop
No you can't stop
Oh Yeah
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
and get your tickets to the greatest show on Earth!
Where you'll witness death defying feats and acts
of whisky guzzling debauchery
I want to see you
So get the fuck up!
It's high noon when you step into the pit
its' a monsters ball and they're digging a ditch
For the sunburnt, the weary, the ones who won't last
In this cyclone of flesh, this cathartic mix
When the broken limbs are leading the match
It's the ringmaster's itch we're amassed to scrath
With the crack of the whip the caries run in
To devour the beast that beats on drums of flesh
Blistered, embattled you fall to submission
To complete the mission you rally and rise
2-3-4
Slack-jawed and entranced you're torched by the sun
You've caught the fever, the days just begun to burn
Yeah!
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
Hey you there in the neo-thrash prog math whatever metal shirt
And cut off jeans trying to sneak away
Don't leave yet, the best part of the show is just about to begin
It's not over till the pretty ladies scream
So get the fuck up!
Brothers in arms we shake our devil sticks together
As we climb the walls of jagged bones together
As you float away on a bed of callused hands with the crest in sight
Now it's time to go over the edge
You take a decadent fall, behind the velvet rope
You join the man on stilts the juggler winks and tosses you a ball
Before you know it you're part of it all
Yeah!
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
Ladies and gentlemen
Step right up and get your ticket
To the greatest show on Earth
We've never felt this free
When I'm stepping blindly
Cause we've never been so free
My acrobatic army
Ladies and Gentlemen
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop
No you can't stop
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop
No you can't stop
Oh Yeah
No you can't stop moving.
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball (this monsters ball)
Can't stop moving
No you can't stop moving
No you can't stop this Monsters Ball
Lyrics submitted by GiveMeHam
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