"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.
There's an apple in the pussy mouth
Now I am the dinner whore
There's a tumor in the TV mouth
Burn it out before it grows
Someone better get the dog to kick
Jaws wired shut to save the dick
Out of the bottomless pit
Comes the little horn
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Dead will dance for what is left
Worms will wait with bated breath
"The blind have now become my deaf"
So says the little horn
Save yourself from this
Save yourself from this
Save yourself from this
Save yourself
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Now I am the dinner whore
There's a tumor in the TV mouth
Burn it out before it grows
Someone better get the dog to kick
Jaws wired shut to save the dick
Out of the bottomless pit
Comes the little horn
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
Little horn is born
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Dead will dance for what is left
Worms will wait with bated breath
"The blind have now become my deaf"
So says the little horn
Save yourself from this
Save yourself from this
Save yourself from this
Save yourself
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
Everyone will suffer now
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
You can't save yourself
World spread its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
Little Horn Lyrics as written by Jeordie White Brian Hugh Warner
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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yeah, oxygenwastingloser just fuckin layed down the law. i was thinking the exact same thing when i read the post submitted by the "papa roacher"... i can tolerate stupid people to a certain degree but this guy is pushing stupidity to a new level. im hoping either you're post was intended to be funny or you're under the age of 12.