"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.
Thirteen times you fucked with my karma
And thirteen times I fucked on your dogma
You've taught me to hate
You've taught me to crawl
You raised your hand as you waved the bottle
You knocked me down, but it made me stronger
The harder you hit
The harder you fall
And this one's for my mother
What will I do without her?
Don't look back
Don't even bother
And this one's for the father
Who loves his middle daughter
Well, here I am
Don't even bother
You can freak out to doubt me
But you'll lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway
Anyway
Anyway
A free reign gave you ammunition
To play the game and fuck other women
And something just snapped
And cracked in my brain
Thirteen times I sucked up inside me
The different ways that you tried to harm me
You did it once
You'll do it again
And this one's for my sister
Who dared to denigrate it
Don't look back
Don't even bother
And this one's for my lover
The one who had to suffer
Here I am
Don't even bother
You can freak out to doubt me
But you'll lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway
Anyway
Anyway
Anyway
Thirteen times (one)
Thirteen times (two)
Thirteen times (three)
Thirteen times (four)
Thirteen times (five)
Thirteen times (six)
Thirteen times (seven)
Thirteen times (eight)
And thirteen times I fucked on your dogma
You've taught me to hate
You've taught me to crawl
You raised your hand as you waved the bottle
You knocked me down, but it made me stronger
The harder you hit
The harder you fall
And this one's for my mother
What will I do without her?
Don't look back
Don't even bother
And this one's for the father
Who loves his middle daughter
Well, here I am
Don't even bother
You can freak out to doubt me
But you'll lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway
Anyway
Anyway
A free reign gave you ammunition
To play the game and fuck other women
And something just snapped
And cracked in my brain
Thirteen times I sucked up inside me
The different ways that you tried to harm me
You did it once
You'll do it again
And this one's for my sister
Who dared to denigrate it
Don't look back
Don't even bother
And this one's for my lover
The one who had to suffer
Here I am
Don't even bother
You can freak out to doubt me
But you'll lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway
Anyway
Anyway
Anyway
Thirteen times (one)
Thirteen times (two)
Thirteen times (three)
Thirteen times (four)
Thirteen times (five)
Thirteen times (six)
Thirteen times (seven)
Thirteen times (eight)
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce
13 X Forever Lyrics as written by Shirley Ann Manson Douglas Elwin Erickson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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@Aquarius121 Oh c'mon. Here we go again.