"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.
[Verse 1]
My hole, I'll get my hole
I'll get my hole
Get my hole, get my hole
And I will find out more
It's a choo-choo train
A rocket launch
If we have a hormone race
I'm bound to finish first
[Chorus]
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
No, you won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone
To keep yourself warm
[Verse 2]
I'm drunk, I'm drunk
And you're probably on pills
If we both got the same diseases
It's irrelevant, girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates, disappears
My point of entry
Is the same way that I'll leave
[Chorus]
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
No, you won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone
To keep yourself warm
You won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
To keep yourself...
[Chorus]
...See in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
My hole, I'll get my hole
I'll get my hole
Get my hole, get my hole
And I will find out more
It's a choo-choo train
A rocket launch
If we have a hormone race
I'm bound to finish first
[Chorus]
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
No, you won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone
To keep yourself warm
[Verse 2]
I'm drunk, I'm drunk
And you're probably on pills
If we both got the same diseases
It's irrelevant, girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates, disappears
My point of entry
Is the same way that I'll leave
[Chorus]
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
No, you won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone
To keep yourself warm
You won't find love in a
Won't find love in a hole
To keep yourself...
[Chorus]
...See in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know
To keep warm
Do you really think that for a house beat
You'll find your love in a hole?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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