"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.
We were talking ticket slump
We'd try to put our finger on it
Quantify the undoing
Of each little step
And it's just a lack of press
And the refrigerator down at the boys club
With its little magnets of poetry
And they've found
One hundred different ways
To say blow me
Ah yeah blow me now
Janny Wenner Janny Wenner
Rolling Stone's most fearless leader
Gave the boys what they deserve
But with the girls he lost his nerve
Whoo hoo now
Hoo
In every post punk bar
There's a dressing room wall
Where the rockboy band
Will make its mark
A hundred different pictures of private parts
And some girl going down
And there's that faggot bashing poetry
But the boys are just saying love me please
With every hate filled phrase
They just give it away
Ah boys you give yourself away
You know Janny Wenner Janny Wenner
Rolling Stone's most fearless leader
Gave the boys what they deserve
But with the girls he lost his nerve
Whoo hoo now
Hoo ooh ooh ooh
Yeah whoo hoo now
Hoo ooh ooh ooh
Testing 1 2 3 in the marketplace
But its a demographic based disgrace
And a stupid secret white boy handshake
That we'll never be part of
So when its DJ Blow and the morning show
I give you one hundred reasons to just say no
And I said come on girls lets go right now
Oh girls lets go right now
Oh cause lucystoners don't need boners
Ain't no man could ever own her
With the boys she had the nerve
To give the girls what they deserve
Lucystoners don't need boners
Ain't no man that'd ever own her
With the boys she had the nerve
Gonna give the girls what they deserve
Ah whoo hoo
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Yeah
Whoo hoo now
Ooh
I said lucystoners don't need boners
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Lucy stoners don't need boners
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo ooh ooh ooh
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Ah whoo
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Yeah
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
We'd try to put our finger on it
Quantify the undoing
Of each little step
And it's just a lack of press
And the refrigerator down at the boys club
With its little magnets of poetry
And they've found
One hundred different ways
To say blow me
Ah yeah blow me now
Janny Wenner Janny Wenner
Rolling Stone's most fearless leader
Gave the boys what they deserve
But with the girls he lost his nerve
Whoo hoo now
Hoo
In every post punk bar
There's a dressing room wall
Where the rockboy band
Will make its mark
A hundred different pictures of private parts
And some girl going down
And there's that faggot bashing poetry
But the boys are just saying love me please
With every hate filled phrase
They just give it away
Ah boys you give yourself away
You know Janny Wenner Janny Wenner
Rolling Stone's most fearless leader
Gave the boys what they deserve
But with the girls he lost his nerve
Whoo hoo now
Hoo ooh ooh ooh
Yeah whoo hoo now
Hoo ooh ooh ooh
Testing 1 2 3 in the marketplace
But its a demographic based disgrace
And a stupid secret white boy handshake
That we'll never be part of
So when its DJ Blow and the morning show
I give you one hundred reasons to just say no
And I said come on girls lets go right now
Oh girls lets go right now
Oh cause lucystoners don't need boners
Ain't no man could ever own her
With the boys she had the nerve
To give the girls what they deserve
Lucystoners don't need boners
Ain't no man that'd ever own her
With the boys she had the nerve
Gonna give the girls what they deserve
Ah whoo hoo
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Yeah
Whoo hoo now
Ooh
I said lucystoners don't need boners
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Lucy stoners don't need boners
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo ooh ooh ooh
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Ah whoo
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Yeah
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Whoo
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
(Lucystoners don't need boners)
Lyrics submitted by aur0ra
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