"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.
Bobby, baby, you make me blurry
So blurry inside
I know I'm down home but I
Always thought a limousine was
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
Bobby, baby, you make me blurry
So blurry inside
I know I'm not your cut
But I never thought that I was just
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
I was a teenager when you
Took me from my mama's bed
And brought me to the real city
I tried my best to become what
I thought you wanted
Bobby, baby, you make me blurry
So blurry inside
I know I'm down home but I
Always thought a limousine was
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
So blurry inside
I know I'm down home but I
Always thought a limousine was
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
Bobby, baby, you make me blurry
So blurry inside
I know I'm not your cut
But I never thought that I was just
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
I was a teenager when you
Took me from my mama's bed
And brought me to the real city
I tried my best to become what
I thought you wanted
Bobby, baby, you make me blurry
So blurry inside
I know I'm down home but I
Always thought a limousine was
Something to be laughed at
Something to be laughed at
Lyrics submitted by LeSerpentMascara
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Yeah, I wasn't sure about the whole "Bobby baby" thing but that really sounds like what Kevin's singing.
it's not kevin, it's Georgie fruit!
Oh sorry, I don't know how that slipped my mind!
Geez, Kevin and Georgie Fruit are not seperate. They are both part of the same person. Kevin Barnes finds no distinction. Don't you watch all of of Montreal's interviews? You call yourselves indie kids...
Actually, on the album, it is Rebecca Cash who sings this song.