"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.
Give me just a second
to grasp your two-bit theories
as that's more than enough time I need
to see through their innate queries
you're telling me to shape up or ship out
but I'd never shape myself to something so offending
as you and your kind
One day you sweetly sigh and say to yourself
"Music's my religion and I'm Born again"
Next week your muse has got some corporate cash
and all of a sudden the tunes are crap
keep your politics to yourself,
kid to me you're just spitting wind
a Windspitting punk with high-brow views
a p.c. fool who's saying nothing new
again and again
what about the kids, piss-poor people
and the broke or the sluts
with overflowing pockets?
or the cursed fucks, pointin' pistols at the pope
are they just martyrs fallen from your graces
to grasp your two-bit theories
as that's more than enough time I need
to see through their innate queries
you're telling me to shape up or ship out
but I'd never shape myself to something so offending
as you and your kind
One day you sweetly sigh and say to yourself
"Music's my religion and I'm Born again"
Next week your muse has got some corporate cash
and all of a sudden the tunes are crap
keep your politics to yourself,
kid to me you're just spitting wind
a Windspitting punk with high-brow views
a p.c. fool who's saying nothing new
again and again
what about the kids, piss-poor people
and the broke or the sluts
with overflowing pockets?
or the cursed fucks, pointin' pistols at the pope
are they just martyrs fallen from your graces
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
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