"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.
Think that you got it made
While I'm on a holiday
In life of luxury
You feel, so free
You're one of the finest thieves
You got no loyalty
You're king of my garden trees
You feel, so free
Like a Jack in a box
Gotta think like a fox
Get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah
It's time to run from me
There's no more room for thieves
You had your luxury
So free, be free
I got my sights on you
I'm coming for you soon
I got my eyes on you
Be gone, be gone
Like a Jack in a box
Gotta think like a fox
Get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah
Like a Jack in a box
I gotta think like a fox
To get you in my sights and see
Like a Jack in a box
I gotta run like a block
To get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah, oh
(Alright, you get what you pay for)
(That was fucking it)
While I'm on a holiday
In life of luxury
You feel, so free
You're one of the finest thieves
You got no loyalty
You're king of my garden trees
You feel, so free
Like a Jack in a box
Gotta think like a fox
Get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah
It's time to run from me
There's no more room for thieves
You had your luxury
So free, be free
I got my sights on you
I'm coming for you soon
I got my eyes on you
Be gone, be gone
Like a Jack in a box
Gotta think like a fox
Get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah
Like a Jack in a box
I gotta think like a fox
To get you in my sights and see
Like a Jack in a box
I gotta run like a block
To get you in my sights and see
Show you one last time down the line, yeah, oh
(Alright, you get what you pay for)
(That was fucking it)
Lyrics submitted by FatRobbert
Jack In A Box Lyrics as written by Kelly Jones
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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