"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.
You've got it all wrong,
You can't get it right.
Why don't you come down
From off my back.
And won't you get yourself a job somewhere away from me?
'Cause I don't want you to see your face anymore.
'Cause I don't want you on my case in the morning.
I'm just being honest,
It's the least I could do.
You say I'll never be honest with you,
'Cause you don't deserve it anyway.
No I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are inferior to me.
And no I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are superior in all aspects to me.
No I do not think that you could love me anyway, because you are superior in all aspects to me.
[Repeat: x4]
She gets what she wanted
You can't get it right.
Why don't you come down
From off my back.
And won't you get yourself a job somewhere away from me?
'Cause I don't want you to see your face anymore.
'Cause I don't want you on my case in the morning.
I'm just being honest,
It's the least I could do.
You say I'll never be honest with you,
'Cause you don't deserve it anyway.
No I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are inferior to me.
And no I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are superior in all aspects to me.
No I do not think that you could love me anyway, because you are superior in all aspects to me.
[Repeat: x4]
She gets what she wanted
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It doesn't get much better than this. The song is screaming "get the fuck away from me", more or less. "You are inferior to me". Who has never wanted to say that?
but then theres the realization in the superior to me
I agree a great song. Swings from anger against the former love (you are inferior to me) to self (ironic?) doubt (superior in all aspects to me). The fact he song rocks as well helps...
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emotional, but not emo. head banging and good to get pumped from possibly he is angry that she doesnt love him and at first says this is beacuse she is inferior, then in the end he drops his anger and changes, saying that she is superior to him. whichever is true, he loves her heaps and she doesnt love him back
I'm thinking the "superior" line is a sarcastic one...
This is the best song to ever use the word inferior. This song kicks so much ass though.