"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.
Here we are looking at the sun
Nothing's gonna change
All strung out beached upon the shore
You said I don't ever want to change no more
We spent all our nights drinking Patrón
Under shark infested skies
All those finer friends they were out of control
In your hilltop paradise
Go again
The party never ends
Basquiat's hanging on the wall
Sugar daddies at your beck and call
It wears me out but we do it all again
I love the way you walk into the room and set it off
We spent all our nights drinking Patrón
Under shark infested skies
All those finer friends they were out of control
In your hilltop paradise
Always dance with the devil under pale moonlight
Never faced up to the fear
You would strut around like Cruella De Vil
But the view looked good from here
It's all we ever know
Another lost weekend
Trading all the blows
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
Nothing's gonna change
All strung out beached upon the shore
You said I don't ever want to change no more
We spent all our nights drinking Patrón
Under shark infested skies
All those finer friends they were out of control
In your hilltop paradise
Go again
The party never ends
Basquiat's hanging on the wall
Sugar daddies at your beck and call
It wears me out but we do it all again
I love the way you walk into the room and set it off
We spent all our nights drinking Patrón
Under shark infested skies
All those finer friends they were out of control
In your hilltop paradise
Always dance with the devil under pale moonlight
Never faced up to the fear
You would strut around like Cruella De Vil
But the view looked good from here
It's all we ever know
Another lost weekend
Trading all the blows
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
The party never ends
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
The Party Never Ends Lyrics as written by Sergio Pizzorno
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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