"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.
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your
Go fuck your prototype
I'm an upgrade of your stereotype
Don't come with a guarantee
I'll use you up like you're my battery
I feel the sparks between us
Electric shock
Hot-wired, if you mess it up
I'll self-destruct
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I got you hypnotized
I read your thoughts when you look in my eyes
You're just my human toy
And I am programmed to search and destroy
I feel the sparks between us
Electric shock
Hot-wired, if you F it up (five, four, three)
I'll self-destruct (two, one)
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
You look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
Ghost in the shell
I'm a beast in the sheets
I'm a neutron bomb-bomb, blowin' the beat
Gonna spray that ray, gonna fall to his knees
I'm a lightning rod, I'ma bite that bod
Do you want a femmebot or do you want a hoe-bot?
Slutbot, fuck no, systems down
Boy, I'll clone you, boy, I'll swerve you
Glitch your mainframe, now I own you
Ex Machina-na-na, you can't win
I'm A.I., slut, I am that bitch
Did you have a root open, drill into your
Oh, man, my bad
Super Saiyan, supersonic
Hard drive crash, you don't remember
Charli, bitch, your way to sing the
I'll be your femmebot
Girl, I'll be your femmebot, can never turn me off
I'll be, I'll be your femme
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your
Go fuck your prototype
I'm an upgrade of your stereotype
Don't come with a guarantee
I'll use you up like you're my battery
I feel the sparks between us
Electric shock
Hot-wired, if you mess it up
I'll self-destruct
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I got you hypnotized
I read your thoughts when you look in my eyes
You're just my human toy
And I am programmed to search and destroy
I feel the sparks between us
Electric shock
Hot-wired, if you F it up (five, four, three)
I'll self-destruct (two, one)
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
You look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
Ghost in the shell
I'm a beast in the sheets
I'm a neutron bomb-bomb, blowin' the beat
Gonna spray that ray, gonna fall to his knees
I'm a lightning rod, I'ma bite that bod
Do you want a femmebot or do you want a hoe-bot?
Slutbot, fuck no, systems down
Boy, I'll clone you, boy, I'll swerve you
Glitch your mainframe, now I own you
Ex Machina-na-na, you can't win
I'm A.I., slut, I am that bitch
Did you have a root open, drill into your
Oh, man, my bad
Super Saiyan, supersonic
Hard drive crash, you don't remember
Charli, bitch, your way to sing the
I'll be your femmebot
Girl, I'll be your femmebot, can never turn me off
I'll be, I'll be your femme
The way you look at me
I-I-I short circuit
You make me lose control
It's automatic
You push my buttons
See-e-e-e how I work it
I-I-I-I get what I want
Like it or not
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I'll be your femmebot
I-I get what I want
Like it or not
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Femmebot Lyrics as written by David H. Gamson Alexander Guy Cook
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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