"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.
It's true, I've got demons inside me
And sometimes they need to speak
My dark places make me feel ugly
My lips are glossed but my heart is weak
I'm diseased
As seen on TV
Please forgive me
For not being pretty
Or sexy
But god never blessed me
Here's what you'll find
Next time you undress me
Scars
Wounds
I'm
Bruised
Watch me bleed
I'm your beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Once again
Without perfect teeth
I begin
The dream as I sleep
Soon I've sinned
My skin is still thick
My mouth as always
Is brutally honest
At my calmest
I'm tired of explaining
How it feels
To be exploited
And rated
Number one, two or seventeen
Fuck what they print in those damn magazines
Scars
Wounds
I'm
Used
Watch me bleed
I'm no beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty queen
Watch me bleed
I'm your beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Stuck inside this mask of mine
There's no place for me to hide
Won't you please come suck me dry
Don't touch me
Don't fucking touch me
Don't touch me... why?
Can't you see beyond my skin
Size, my shape, my ass, my tits
I am not your pretty face
I'm just a girl
The girl you love to hate!
Watch me bleed
I'm no beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty queen
Watch me bleed
I'm the beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Why can't you see beyond my skin
Size, my shape, my ass, my tits
I am not your pretty face
I'm just a girl
The girl you love to hate!
Stuck inside this mask of mine
There's no place for me to hide
Won't you please come suck me dry
Don't
Don't you fucking touch me pig!
And sometimes they need to speak
My dark places make me feel ugly
My lips are glossed but my heart is weak
I'm diseased
As seen on TV
Please forgive me
For not being pretty
Or sexy
But god never blessed me
Here's what you'll find
Next time you undress me
Scars
Wounds
I'm
Bruised
Watch me bleed
I'm your beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Once again
Without perfect teeth
I begin
The dream as I sleep
Soon I've sinned
My skin is still thick
My mouth as always
Is brutally honest
At my calmest
I'm tired of explaining
How it feels
To be exploited
And rated
Number one, two or seventeen
Fuck what they print in those damn magazines
Scars
Wounds
I'm
Used
Watch me bleed
I'm no beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty queen
Watch me bleed
I'm your beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Stuck inside this mask of mine
There's no place for me to hide
Won't you please come suck me dry
Don't touch me
Don't fucking touch me
Don't touch me... why?
Can't you see beyond my skin
Size, my shape, my ass, my tits
I am not your pretty face
I'm just a girl
The girl you love to hate!
Watch me bleed
I'm no beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty queen
Watch me bleed
I'm the beauty
Watch me bleed
Beauty fiend
Why can't you see beyond my skin
Size, my shape, my ass, my tits
I am not your pretty face
I'm just a girl
The girl you love to hate!
Stuck inside this mask of mine
There's no place for me to hide
Won't you please come suck me dry
Don't
Don't you fucking touch me pig!
Lyrics submitted by MissAnnThrope
Beauty Fiend Lyrics as written by Tairrie Beth Mick Murphy
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i hate the way people love 2 judge u purely on how you look. if you're not pretty enough, or thin enough, or curvy enough, or to tall or too short....people think ur not worth talking to. and also, i quite like being hated by most of the small town where i live.
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