"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.
Did you ever see the concrete stares of everyday?
The lunatic, the hypocrite are all lost in the fray
Can't you see their lives are just like yours?
An unturned stone, and undiscovered
Door leading to
The gift of hope renewed
Eternity for you
The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
The business man whose master plan controls the world each day
Is blind to indications of his species of his species' slow decay
People blow their minds
They choose to resign
This deformed society is part of a design
It'll never go away
It's in the cards that way
The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
The lunatic, the hypocrite are all lost in the fray
Can't you see their lives are just like yours?
An unturned stone, and undiscovered
Door leading to
The gift of hope renewed
Eternity for you
The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
The business man whose master plan controls the world each day
Is blind to indications of his species of his species' slow decay
People blow their minds
They choose to resign
This deformed society is part of a design
It'll never go away
It's in the cards that way
The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
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This song is about how fucked up life is and how depressing it is to be a human. It's not very specific, much like other bad religion songs. it's not just about "corporations" it says the masses of humanity have ALWAYS had to suffer.
It's about the corporations and the government, who take everything for themselves and leave the masses suffering, but they just don't give a fuck...
Okay Bender is great got it right. (Bender IS great, btw). It's not really about the "government" or "big corporations" or anything like that. I don't really see how you got that out of this song.
This song is about how humans are required to suffer. Always have and always will. Everyone one suffers from something, there's no way around it. Some people suffer from poverty, some from cancer, some from harassment, whatever it is, everyone suffers and there is no way around it.
That is what this song is about, not "government" or "big corporations". Punk (especially Bad Religion) goes beyond those worn out songs.
awesome song. one of bad religions best.
about big corperations leaving hundreds of millions of kids suffering, while they reap the benefits.
This song is purely just a song about the current global situation. The age old battle between the "haves" and the "have-nots". The "haves" not helping the "haves-nots" and Greg's basically saying that this sad cycle of "slow decay" will always continue and that the majority of people around the world will always suffer while remaining in that sad cycle.
are you fucking kidding me? 3 comments? this is bad religion's best song!
'This deformed society is part of the design.'
This line really reminded me of Orwell's 1984. It wouldn't be the first time there was an Orwell reference in BR lyrics.
Brilliant song
The businessman whose master plan controls the world each day Is blind to indications of his species' slow decay. Can't you see his life is just like yours?
Hmmm. I've tried to think the answer to this. My guesses:
The Buisness man is the whole government. The goverenment is slowly decaying, falling apart onto the masses of humanity who will always have to suffer.
is it "The businessman whose have-to plan controls the world each day" ?