"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 started this
It's all for me
What's yours is yours and mine is mine
That's plain to see
So give it up
I've got to have
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Be aggressive
B-e aggressive
B-e a-g-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e
What someone else
Would leave behind
And spit it out, let go to waste
I claim is mine
You're my flavor of the week
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Tall and reckless
Ugly seed
Reach down my throat
You filthy bird
That's all I need
This empty pit
I've got to feed
To prove I'm fit
A healthy man I've got to be
Malnutrition, my submission
You're the master
And I take it on my knees
Ejaculation
Tribulation
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Be aggressive
B-e aggressive
B-e a-g-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e
Go, fight, go, fight, go, fight, win
It's all for me
What's yours is yours and mine is mine
That's plain to see
So give it up
I've got to have
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Be aggressive
B-e aggressive
B-e a-g-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e
What someone else
Would leave behind
And spit it out, let go to waste
I claim is mine
You're my flavor of the week
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Tall and reckless
Ugly seed
Reach down my throat
You filthy bird
That's all I need
This empty pit
I've got to feed
To prove I'm fit
A healthy man I've got to be
Malnutrition, my submission
You're the master
And I take it on my knees
Ejaculation
Tribulation
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Be aggressive
B-e aggressive
B-e a-g-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e
Go, fight, go, fight, go, fight, win
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One of his contributions (Roddy) to Faith No More was "Be Aggressive" Angel Dust 1992, a song about oral sex. Bottum has said in interviews that he wrote the song largely as a joke at Mike Patton's expense, enjoying the potential humiliation a straight vocalist would subject himself to onstage.
Taken from the Faith No More FAQ
Be Aggressive Roddy, who came out in 1992, wrote the lyrics to this song. Roddy, when asked what the song was about in a 1992 interview for "The Advocate," replied "Swallowing. It was a pretty fun thing to write, knowing that Mike was going to have to put himself on the line and go up onstage and sing these vocals."
I think the cheerleaders are there because 1) sticking that well-known cheerleader chant in the middle of this song kind of recontextualizes it and makes it sound like an s and m kind of thing, 2) even without them the song musically has a "jock jams" pump up for the big game kind of feel to it, which is hillarious when you pay attention to the lyrics and 3) it's just kind of funny that an actual cheerleading squad is now unknowingly singing on a song about gay oral sex (um, assuming that's a sample anyway).
This song is all about Mike Patton umm swallowing another man. I'll spare you the details, but its all there.
Hey i've just found out, i think it was Roddy who wrote this for a laugh he just wanted to see patton go up infront of people and sing this talk about audatious
And of course, Roddy is gay.
Marilyn Manson loves the cock
The whole band is insane, this song doesn't surprise me. Mike ain't bi or gay, it was just a joke song.
so mike is bi???
No, Mike Patton is straight. On the other hand the guy who wrote the lyrics, Roddy Bottum, is Faith No More's keyboardist and he is gay. He wrote the song as a joke, but yeah... good job Roddy!
But that doesn't explain the cheerleaders. Of course, I'm pretty sure there's really NO explanation for about half of FnM's musical elements...