"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.
i asked her if she went off to work in a thirties ball gown
why i should sit here and write lyrics around
and she said, smiling, what to write was easy
write a song about mud, music and me
well ocusdubruki were rockin it late last night
flamenco, hip hop rhythm making us all feel right
the sun beating down on the back of my neck
but today its just been pouring wet
but people here have lost the city from them now
walkin past eachother in the rain, smiling, i think wow
is it one night in this field and we're washed from all the rushing
we're all country folk now
laughing and singing and hugging
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
then i got to wonder whether
lye by a pond singing kiss her
life brings many blessings when you least expect it
it cuts your strings and you're free for that time to be
kiss her and let her kiss me
goin back to her van and i wanna do rudeys
but shes a lady so i just kiss on her boobies
love, i've seen nudeys, kay, you just sued me
score this own goal in me like wayne rooney
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
everyone is there to remind you
you are on this earth to find love
and we are all standin beside ya
you are on this earth to find love
all the time i search for ya
all the time just lookin for ya
lets take this chance to remember
you are on this earth to find love
you are on this earth to find love
and round the staff campfire, julia said;
we love festival community cause our own communities are dead
that's why every year more people wanna come
community sprits what we mean when we say i wanna have fun
so what does glastonbury teach me?
that human-beings are starving for sprit and community
we need to start now, to show ourselves how
we can feel this change and let real freedom rain
from the dislocated, violated powders in our pain
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
cause everyone is there to remind ya
you are on this earth to find love
and we are all standin beside ya
you are on this earth to find love
all this time I look for it in ya
all the time just searchin for ya
lets take this chance to remember
you are on this earth to find love
you are on this earth to find love
everyone is, everyone is, everyone is
this Glastonbury.
why i should sit here and write lyrics around
and she said, smiling, what to write was easy
write a song about mud, music and me
well ocusdubruki were rockin it late last night
flamenco, hip hop rhythm making us all feel right
the sun beating down on the back of my neck
but today its just been pouring wet
but people here have lost the city from them now
walkin past eachother in the rain, smiling, i think wow
is it one night in this field and we're washed from all the rushing
we're all country folk now
laughing and singing and hugging
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
then i got to wonder whether
lye by a pond singing kiss her
life brings many blessings when you least expect it
it cuts your strings and you're free for that time to be
kiss her and let her kiss me
goin back to her van and i wanna do rudeys
but shes a lady so i just kiss on her boobies
love, i've seen nudeys, kay, you just sued me
score this own goal in me like wayne rooney
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
everyone is there to remind you
you are on this earth to find love
and we are all standin beside ya
you are on this earth to find love
all the time i search for ya
all the time just lookin for ya
lets take this chance to remember
you are on this earth to find love
you are on this earth to find love
and round the staff campfire, julia said;
we love festival community cause our own communities are dead
that's why every year more people wanna come
community sprits what we mean when we say i wanna have fun
so what does glastonbury teach me?
that human-beings are starving for sprit and community
we need to start now, to show ourselves how
we can feel this change and let real freedom rain
from the dislocated, violated powders in our pain
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
write me a song about mud, music and me
write me a song about this glastonbury
cause everyone is there to remind ya
you are on this earth to find love
and we are all standin beside ya
you are on this earth to find love
all this time I look for it in ya
all the time just searchin for ya
lets take this chance to remember
you are on this earth to find love
you are on this earth to find love
everyone is, everyone is, everyone is
this Glastonbury.
Lyrics submitted by meg_gallagher
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