"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.
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She ain't no human being
And there's no future
And England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
And don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh god save history
God save your mad parade
Oh lord god have mercy
All crimes are paid
Oh when there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers
In the dustbin
We're the poison
In the human machine
We're the future
Your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
We mean it man
There is no future
In England's dreaming
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for me
No future
No future
No future for you
No future, no future for you
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She ain't no human being
And there's no future
And England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
And don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh god save history
God save your mad parade
Oh lord god have mercy
All crimes are paid
Oh when there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers
In the dustbin
We're the poison
In the human machine
We're the future
Your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
We mean it man
There is no future
In England's dreaming
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for me
No future
No future
No future for you
No future, no future for you
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death, edited by Humeanbeing
God Save the Queen Lyrics as written by Stephen Philip Jones Paul Thomas Cook
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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A Sex Pistols song isn't really the best place to express your feelings for your dearly beloved Queen Elizabeth. And to be honest, you were just looking for trouble by posting. MYCRUSTYSCABS, there's nothing wrong with being rich, it's only if you act like a snob and think you're better than everyone else. My family are pretty comfortable, financially, and it really pisses me off when people go on about how they hate rich people. I hate snobs, but I think it's really unfair to call all rich people snobs. I would never call someone poor, ever and class would not get in the way of me being friends with someone higher or lower a class than me. Being Middle class back in the late 70s with the pistols would've been hard because the punks hated the rich snobs. But I hate the class system, and so did Lydon. We should all be in the same class.