"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.
"...invaded by hordes of scummy, race-mixing traitors and Red-led
Marxist
mongrels demanding human rights for subhumans. Yes, once again,
we see
amassed the underground army of social malcontents, racial
throwbacks, and
genetically-botched black boneheads--this army of ghetto
guerrillas and
street-razor savages that has turned our cities into jungles and
our schools
into battlefields. Now this army of the ignorant, the
shiftless, the criminal
and the irresponsible, after receiving billions upon billions of
dollars in
federal aid, for everything from free food to free abortions,
they now come to
Washington, D.C. to demand a national holiday for this
doubly-degenerate, Jew-
led, Red jungle bunny responsible for their freedom to lope
their way through
life at the white man's expense. Martin Luther King, a mm mm mm
mm, Communist
Jew, a member of no less than 62 Communist Party front groups, a
black man who
lusted after white women, who embraced the teachings of a
half-pint Hindu, and
a Christ-hating Jew. This criminal Communist coon, they want a
national
holiday for him? Ridiculous."
Bit me
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black
Bit me, musta thought I was black
Looks like a rat, looks like a rat
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black
Bit me, musta thought I was black
Blast me in the shack, then he sent off his dog
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-you??
Marxist
mongrels demanding human rights for subhumans. Yes, once again,
we see
amassed the underground army of social malcontents, racial
throwbacks, and
genetically-botched black boneheads--this army of ghetto
guerrillas and
street-razor savages that has turned our cities into jungles and
our schools
into battlefields. Now this army of the ignorant, the
shiftless, the criminal
and the irresponsible, after receiving billions upon billions of
dollars in
federal aid, for everything from free food to free abortions,
they now come to
Washington, D.C. to demand a national holiday for this
doubly-degenerate, Jew-
led, Red jungle bunny responsible for their freedom to lope
their way through
life at the white man's expense. Martin Luther King, a mm mm mm
mm, Communist
Jew, a member of no less than 62 Communist Party front groups, a
black man who
lusted after white women, who embraced the teachings of a
half-pint Hindu, and
a Christ-hating Jew. This criminal Communist coon, they want a
national
holiday for him? Ridiculous."
Bit me
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black
Bit me, musta thought I was black
Looks like a rat, looks like a rat
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black
Bit me, musta thought I was black
Blast me in the shack, then he sent off his dog
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-up
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed
I don't know why he's so mean
I don't know why she's so screwed-you??
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It's about a guy who has a dog trained to attack black people. Don't know who the opening clip comes from. The song is off the Bulldozer EP, which Albini had initially wanted to call "Hey, Nigger", with a drawing of a repulsive, overweight, inbred redneck hick on the cover shouting the line. " The idea being that an offensive term used by an offensive person is only offensive if you allow that person's commentary to have some weight or value." So it wasn't meant to be malicious or biggoted or racist, he was trying to make a point. Fortunately, the combined efforts of everybody he knew managed to convince him to change the title.
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"Bit me 'cause he thought I was black"
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i have a big black bootleg recorded live at Club 950, 1983 (my copy is called big black live cassette) where you can clearly hear that the actual lyrics are "i don't know why he's so mean, i don't know why she's so secretive"... it's on youtube as well, look it up.