"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.
There's an English beat on Sesame street
And there's a little boy dancing with dancing feet
I know you know, that he knows and I know
There's E Left pumping on the ghetto blaster
Young girls chatting about who they're after
I know and they know, that I know they know
I said
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
There's an English beat on Sesame street
And there's a rich man creeping and he's creeping on me
I know what he don't, and he don't don't don't know
I said
Gimme all you're money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all you're money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're pushing all your money on me Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Everybody in the sneakers (hell yeah)
Nike, Cons, or Adidas (hell yeah)
Pump it up so I can feel it (hell yeah)
With the fever
Pump it up
Pump it up
'Cause I know and they know
That I know and they know
I said
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
(Girls are barbies boys are johnnies)
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
(Girls cash money boys like honeys)
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
(Girls are barbies boys are johnnies)
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
(Girls cash money boys like honeys)
And there's a little boy dancing with dancing feet
I know you know, that he knows and I know
There's E Left pumping on the ghetto blaster
Young girls chatting about who they're after
I know and they know, that I know they know
I said
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
There's an English beat on Sesame street
And there's a rich man creeping and he's creeping on me
I know what he don't, and he don't don't don't know
I said
Gimme all you're money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all you're money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're pushing all your money on me Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Girls are barbies
Boys are johnnies
Girls cash money
Boys like honeys
Everybody in the sneakers (hell yeah)
Nike, Cons, or Adidas (hell yeah)
Pump it up so I can feel it (hell yeah)
With the fever
Pump it up
Pump it up
'Cause I know and they know
That I know and they know
I said
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
Gimme all your money mr Johnny Cash
(Girls are barbies boys are johnnies)
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
(Girls cash money boys like honeys)
'Cause you're flashing all your money like Johnny Cash
(Girls are barbies boys are johnnies)
Gimme all your money Johnny Cash
(Girls cash money boys like honeys)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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