"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.
Lookie here got 'em all lined up
Same bitchy girls and boys
On their hands and their knees
Slithering through the streets
Programmed to seek and destroy
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
Oh my my, no one's on my side
Too paranoid to listen to me
You can cast me out you can tape my mouth
But you can't get a stone to bleed
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
You know I love it when you say you're afraid
But you hate it when I'm making you shake
Hang the truth from a noose
Put a hit man on the loose
Now you're countin' on me makin' you dead
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Eveyr murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
Got something to say
And it all adds up
Say it
Riddle me this before I take it back
Been stealin' my shit for years
So kiss my quiet bad man's spire
'Cause you know I'm gonna bring you to tears
And it all adds up
And It all adds up
Shake shake shake
Call in all the snakes
Been itchin' for the new paved road
Bang bang bang
Go down the new slang
You can't keep all the money you stole
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
You know I love it when you say you're afraid
But you hate it when I'm making you shake
Hang the truth from a noose
Put a hit man on the loose
Now you're countin' on me makin' you dead
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Every murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Every murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
Same bitchy girls and boys
On their hands and their knees
Slithering through the streets
Programmed to seek and destroy
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
Oh my my, no one's on my side
Too paranoid to listen to me
You can cast me out you can tape my mouth
But you can't get a stone to bleed
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
You know I love it when you say you're afraid
But you hate it when I'm making you shake
Hang the truth from a noose
Put a hit man on the loose
Now you're countin' on me makin' you dead
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Eveyr murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
Got something to say
And it all adds up
Say it
Riddle me this before I take it back
Been stealin' my shit for years
So kiss my quiet bad man's spire
'Cause you know I'm gonna bring you to tears
And it all adds up
And It all adds up
Shake shake shake
Call in all the snakes
Been itchin' for the new paved road
Bang bang bang
Go down the new slang
You can't keep all the money you stole
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
You know I love it when you say you're afraid
But you hate it when I'm making you shake
Hang the truth from a noose
Put a hit man on the loose
Now you're countin' on me makin' you dead
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Every murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
And it all adds up
There ain't no magic bullet
There's no cure for the weak
There's no sympathetic shoulder here to put you to sleep
You're a long, long way from where you thought you would be
Every murder has a motive but you ain't killin' me
And it all adds up
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
It All Adds Up Lyrics as written by Dave Bassett Brent Smith
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