"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.
Give it up for working stiffs
And those who sell their bodies time + future
The popular people who can shout and spread
A catchy rationalization
Let's have a cheer for androids, robots,
Servants and their masters
"Blind leading the blind" and "slavery is freedom."
Starts to resound everyone knew Madison
She came to Hollywood a couple buttons short
Couldn't keep her story straight she had a
Drawer full of poisons, punctures, pictures of victims
Of course someone asks are they still victims if
They never realize it? Go ask a PA minor
Breathing blackness smoking 3 packs of Camels
Loyal Americans who love their collar colored
+ 40 hours. A spade is still a spade, a collar
Is still a collar whether it be blue or white
It's still around your neck, the silk leash nice + tite
Your wife helped pick it out. The irony is
That you worked 3 hours for it you wish you
Could ignore it. You're a hooker.
You start to realize it's true, they sniff their coke
You huff your glue. Pimps + prostitutes
Businessmen in monkey suits on their
Knees lickin corporate boots. Suckin up
Jumpin through hoops. Pimps + Wall St. ho's
Work the street in business clothes
Blow jobs, rimming, sucking cock
They're getting laid while you're getting laid off.
And those who sell their bodies time + future
The popular people who can shout and spread
A catchy rationalization
Let's have a cheer for androids, robots,
Servants and their masters
"Blind leading the blind" and "slavery is freedom."
Starts to resound everyone knew Madison
She came to Hollywood a couple buttons short
Couldn't keep her story straight she had a
Drawer full of poisons, punctures, pictures of victims
Of course someone asks are they still victims if
They never realize it? Go ask a PA minor
Breathing blackness smoking 3 packs of Camels
Loyal Americans who love their collar colored
+ 40 hours. A spade is still a spade, a collar
Is still a collar whether it be blue or white
It's still around your neck, the silk leash nice + tite
Your wife helped pick it out. The irony is
That you worked 3 hours for it you wish you
Could ignore it. You're a hooker.
You start to realize it's true, they sniff their coke
You huff your glue. Pimps + prostitutes
Businessmen in monkey suits on their
Knees lickin corporate boots. Suckin up
Jumpin through hoops. Pimps + Wall St. ho's
Work the street in business clothes
Blow jobs, rimming, sucking cock
They're getting laid while you're getting laid off.
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