"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.
I've seen you in the mirror
When the story began
And I fell in love with you.
I love yer mortal sin
Yer brains are locked away
But I love your company
I only ever leave you
When you got no money
I got no emotions for anybody else
You better understand
I'm in love with myself, myself
My beautiful self
I've no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Hello and goodbye
And a run around Sue
You follow me around
Like a pretty pot of glue
I kick you in the head
You got nothing to say
Get out of the way
'Cause I gotta get away
You never realize
I take the piss out of you
You come up and see me
And I'll beat you black and blue okay
I'll send you away
I got no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Except for myself
My beautiful self-ish
There ain't no moonlight
After midnight
I see you selling people
Out looking for delight
Well I'm so happy
I'm feeling so fine
I'm watching all the rubbish
You're wasting my time
I look around your house
And there's nothing to steal
I kick you in the brains
When you get down to kneel and pray
You pray to your God
I've no feeling, no feeling, I got no feeling
For anybody else
I've no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Except for myself
Your daddy's gone away
Be back another day
See his picture hanging on your wall
When the story began
And I fell in love with you.
I love yer mortal sin
Yer brains are locked away
But I love your company
I only ever leave you
When you got no money
I got no emotions for anybody else
You better understand
I'm in love with myself, myself
My beautiful self
I've no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Hello and goodbye
And a run around Sue
You follow me around
Like a pretty pot of glue
I kick you in the head
You got nothing to say
Get out of the way
'Cause I gotta get away
You never realize
I take the piss out of you
You come up and see me
And I'll beat you black and blue okay
I'll send you away
I got no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Except for myself
My beautiful self-ish
There ain't no moonlight
After midnight
I see you selling people
Out looking for delight
Well I'm so happy
I'm feeling so fine
I'm watching all the rubbish
You're wasting my time
I look around your house
And there's nothing to steal
I kick you in the brains
When you get down to kneel and pray
You pray to your God
I've no feeling, no feeling, I got no feeling
For anybody else
I've no feeling, no feeling, no feeling
For anybody else
Except for myself
Your daddy's gone away
Be back another day
See his picture hanging on your wall
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
No Feelings Lyrics as written by Stephen Philip Jones Paul Thomas Cook
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