"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.
Ain't nothing working ain't nothing right
There's a whole in me that I can't fill
No matter how hard I try
Hey bartender hit me with a double
And introduce me to that girl with the bubble
I'm looking for trouble tonight
No momma don't trust me tonight
You be the center baby
I'd be the quarterback
Hike hit the tailback
Watch it on playback
Jah smash that hitting that redbone
Up in the endzone biting on the collarbone
[Chorus]
I just want your company
I just want you to comfort me just come with me
Hey bartender hit me with another
I just about had to kill this brother
Shit I'm looking for trouble tonight
You be the beauty - baby
I'd be the beast
Who gives a fuck take it to the bedroom
Take it the streets
Take it like a man muthafucker
Yo bitch chose me muthafucker
[Chorus: x 2]
Take me there take me with you
I can't be alone tonight
I can't be alone tonight
I can't trust myself tonight
I can't trust myself tonight
Baby please don't trust me tonight
No please don't trust me tonight
Ain't nothing working
Ain't nothing right
There's a whole in me that I can't fill
No matter how hard I try
Ain't nothing sweeter there ain't nothing wrong
All the pain that I receive keeps me strong
It keeps me moving on
I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me
I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me
Comfort me just come with me
Comfort me just come with me
There's a whole in me that I can't fill
No matter how hard I try
Hey bartender hit me with a double
And introduce me to that girl with the bubble
I'm looking for trouble tonight
No momma don't trust me tonight
You be the center baby
I'd be the quarterback
Hike hit the tailback
Watch it on playback
Jah smash that hitting that redbone
Up in the endzone biting on the collarbone
[Chorus]
I just want your company
I just want you to comfort me just come with me
Hey bartender hit me with another
I just about had to kill this brother
Shit I'm looking for trouble tonight
You be the beauty - baby
I'd be the beast
Who gives a fuck take it to the bedroom
Take it the streets
Take it like a man muthafucker
Yo bitch chose me muthafucker
[Chorus: x 2]
Take me there take me with you
I can't be alone tonight
I can't be alone tonight
I can't trust myself tonight
I can't trust myself tonight
Baby please don't trust me tonight
No please don't trust me tonight
Ain't nothing working
Ain't nothing right
There's a whole in me that I can't fill
No matter how hard I try
Ain't nothing sweeter there ain't nothing wrong
All the pain that I receive keeps me strong
It keeps me moving on
I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me
I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me I just want your company
I want you to comfort me just come with me
Comfort me just come with me
Comfort me just come with me
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Bartender Lyrics as written by Jerrad Shain Wes Geer
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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It's a song about being lonely and looking for company
haha no deep meaning to this, just a guy feeling down that wants to get laid. great song, too bad this band doesn't get more attention
sex sex sex that's all i can think about when i hear this song. this guy i know plays it all the time when i'm on the phone w/ him and i can't help fantasizing what it would be like to have sex to this song
Wypas na maksa - It`s so fantastic
anyone who's been clubbing knows what this song feels like
someone who think he's really bad, feels very lonely and there's a war going on in him...
this song rules, its excellent to dance to in clubs
If you think that this band doesn't get enough attention then you're wrong... I'm from Ukraine and I was really first who heared it in the city 3 years ago :) This song is really awesome to jump with a mob of friends at the party !!!
"Up in the endzone biting on the collarbone" LOL I love it. This song is fucken unbelievely awesome, in the clubs, in traffic, going mach 10 down a highway. It kinda in a way makes we wanna pick a fight with a girls boyfriend in the club, which I am usually quite successful...But the Bitch still likes it...She chose me.
Man, nooffense but this band just really suck :(, no good riffs or anything :(.. just stupid (half)rap :(
They are so lame...