"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.
Brains, on a brick wall, when gender bombs would fall
The sorted way allotted phrases infiltrate your skull
Images are strong, impulses are strong
And logic will break your heart forever, be brave
Massive suicide dreams
The fear of war and love
The girl will scold you
The girl will...
The carcass bleeding gaming for self ten loves in a row
The drunken Sunday evening's would just be in your way, no
Massive Suicide dreams
The fear of war and love
The girl will scold you... [8x]
The sorted way allotted phrases infiltrate your skull
Images are strong, impulses are strong
And logic will break your heart forever, be brave
Massive suicide dreams
The fear of war and love
The girl will scold you
The girl will...
The carcass bleeding gaming for self ten loves in a row
The drunken Sunday evening's would just be in your way, no
Massive Suicide dreams
The fear of war and love
The girl will scold you... [8x]
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Gender Bombs Lyrics as written by Olivier Corbeil David Alexandre Hamelin
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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