"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.
Just like you I feel you too
You try to put me in your cage but I feel the pain
Come on
Look up look up who do you see in the sky
Can you see my deadly shadow looking in your eye
But you lie there's a fire in your mind
So you run and you cry when you get denied
So hold it back down, hold it back down, bring it down
Let me take control of the show that I flow
I did it on the streets, you did it on the beach
We did it in the car but only in the backseat
Chorus:
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
Sex sex sex
Get up now (2x)
With me don't close your eyes
I know you're stuck in your lies
Don't waste my time
Stereotype me when I get kinda freaky
Insanity complicates with reality
I wanna take you to the last ride
Then survive if we dive to the next side of the story
Still can't hear me come on
If sex can kill so why don't you kill me
So everybody can die not just for the money
I'll make you scream oh yeah would you let me
(repeat chorus)
What I feel inside it's not what's on your mind
You try to leave me here I'm deaf and blind (4x)
(repeat chorus)
Sex sex sex
Get up now (3x)
Sex sex sex
You try to put me in your cage but I feel the pain
Come on
Look up look up who do you see in the sky
Can you see my deadly shadow looking in your eye
But you lie there's a fire in your mind
So you run and you cry when you get denied
So hold it back down, hold it back down, bring it down
Let me take control of the show that I flow
I did it on the streets, you did it on the beach
We did it in the car but only in the backseat
Chorus:
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
I'm a sex freak muthafucker
Sex sex sex
Get up now (2x)
With me don't close your eyes
I know you're stuck in your lies
Don't waste my time
Stereotype me when I get kinda freaky
Insanity complicates with reality
I wanna take you to the last ride
Then survive if we dive to the next side of the story
Still can't hear me come on
If sex can kill so why don't you kill me
So everybody can die not just for the money
I'll make you scream oh yeah would you let me
(repeat chorus)
What I feel inside it's not what's on your mind
You try to leave me here I'm deaf and blind (4x)
(repeat chorus)
Sex sex sex
Get up now (3x)
Sex sex sex
Lyrics submitted by EdinLaden
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