"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.
Here we go again good citizens
Avert your eyes
As the innocent collide
Run and hide as the world sits and watches, hypnotized
Another Belgrade sunset leaving town
Another refugee Macedonia bound
And the bombs still fall tearing the city down
And I want to beat you all black and blue
Cause your not like me
And I ain't nothing like you
And I wanna keep it that way
Facism gaining ground
An effective cleansing
The borders are closing down
The unwanted masses litter the bloodstained ground
And I don't really want to know and I don't care
I've got my own problems and they're over here not there
A good american remains totally unaware
And I want to beat you all black and blue
Cause your not like me
And I ain't nothing like you
And I wanna keep it that way
So give us your tired your poor and your weak
Cause we break ground for a Wal-mart there next week
And I wanna keep it that way
Avert your eyes
As the innocent collide
Run and hide as the world sits and watches, hypnotized
Another Belgrade sunset leaving town
Another refugee Macedonia bound
And the bombs still fall tearing the city down
And I want to beat you all black and blue
Cause your not like me
And I ain't nothing like you
And I wanna keep it that way
Facism gaining ground
An effective cleansing
The borders are closing down
The unwanted masses litter the bloodstained ground
And I don't really want to know and I don't care
I've got my own problems and they're over here not there
A good american remains totally unaware
And I want to beat you all black and blue
Cause your not like me
And I ain't nothing like you
And I wanna keep it that way
So give us your tired your poor and your weak
Cause we break ground for a Wal-mart there next week
And I wanna keep it that way
Lyrics submitted by punk_in_drublic99
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This is such a great song, i reckon everyone should have a copy of it somewhere. This bands lyrics are just so damn good, they actually mean something and have effort put into them unlike the millions of bands and singers out there who have other people write their music and the lyrics mean nothing, but are just rhyming words. I wish i lived in Florida so i could see these guys play or they would come to Sydney to do a gig :(
Seriously, you don't wanna live in Florida... also known as the penis of the United States.
:) I also enjoy this song very, very much. I think this shows the overly coperate-ishness of America and the rest of the developed world and how it's heading towards American's fascist views (if they weren't there already)