"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.
Polite to say that I drifted away and I never thought I'd care
Along the way I've made mistakes but I made them over there
If I told you twice I'd beat it what you never thought I'd beat
If I told you I survived in your pig society
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what lies inside and you never want to see
Locked away in a cage today so I'm doin' what I can
Take these fuckin' chains off me and I'll show you what I am
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what I've survived and you never would believe
chorus
Sick of politicians and politics and prisons lyin' and runnin' my life
You pathetic preachers and hypocritic leaders smilin' and wastin' my time
Servers of the people, pigs with broken egos, brother beware of the type
Drug me in and threw my in the pen, but I am still alive
Survive the hate of this fuckin' place and I'll call you when I can
Some snitch fucker died last night, do you think I give a damn
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what it's like inside and you never want to see
repeat chorus
Along the way I've made mistakes but I made them over there
If I told you twice I'd beat it what you never thought I'd beat
If I told you I survived in your pig society
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what lies inside and you never want to see
Locked away in a cage today so I'm doin' what I can
Take these fuckin' chains off me and I'll show you what I am
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what I've survived and you never would believe
chorus
Sick of politicians and politics and prisons lyin' and runnin' my life
You pathetic preachers and hypocritic leaders smilin' and wastin' my time
Servers of the people, pigs with broken egos, brother beware of the type
Drug me in and threw my in the pen, but I am still alive
Survive the hate of this fuckin' place and I'll call you when I can
Some snitch fucker died last night, do you think I give a damn
You don't know what it's like to be in me
You don't know what it's like inside and you never want to see
repeat chorus
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Pig Society Lyrics as written by Brian Ebejer Ebejer
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Pretty straightforward. I definitely dig what they're saying in this one.
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Religion is bad.
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