"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.
if you're gonna shoot up please don't use somebody else's needles 'cause you don't know where that somebody has been oh no if you're gonna use junk please don't be a dirty cotton kid because you might end up with aids or something else oh no ifyou're gonna shoot up don't use dirty needles baby if you're gonna shoot speed don't use dirty needles baby if you're gonna shoot smack don't use dirty needles baby if you're gonna shoot up don't use dirty needles
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Dirty Needles Lyrics as written by Benjamin M Foster Benjamin M. Foster
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Hey just wanted to put my two cents on to this hope you don't mind well first off I too like that song of @Greenday but I didn't became a fan until their 21st century breakdown album came and one of my fave there was Restless Heart Syndrome. Anyway going back after I got out of highschool years ago I thought my generation was the last revival to be in the emo scene today I think it's more of the hipster running the place or the pop punkers? And as much as I don't want to admit it now I guess I was an emo? lol typical teen depression due to trivial stuff you know the usual. You know the other thing I found out about being emo it's not actually about being dark and those stuff you may think it is all about it's actually a lot more complex so to speak, also if you're a true emo fan have you heard of this following band? (death cab for cutie, Jimmy eat world, postal service etc.) as far as I know MCR as much as I loved them when I was a teen I never really considered them an emo band, gothic a little bit maybe but mostly alternative like PATD! emo bands existed way before we are even born, tracing back to the 80's. About this dude you like well I don't have much of an advice on that I suppose. If you were given a moment just admit how you feel about him and let things fall into place sometimes guys likes it when the girl admits how they feel first especially to shy types, I know haha. Now a days I'm more into indie type of music and some punk rock, I've lost my taste for anything emo when I've realized that being sad all the time just isn't going to help me and having people around who feel the same helped out a lot too. Hope you don't mind, but I suggest writing in complete sentences next time without text abbreviation I know it's tedious, but believe me learning to write properly helps especially conveying your feelings properly through writing.
PS I like your username it reminds me of mine from before [xxLoner_mexx] ohhh the fun times. hahaha
yeh, I like 21st century breakdown 2. and yeh I have herd of Jimmy Eat World cos I went 2 a concert of theres once, and I kno a few Death Cab For Cutie songs 2.<br /> and I find it hard to write in complte sentences cos im dyslexic and stuff.<br /> thanks, I like ur username 2.