"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.
No lord shall stand before myself
I can strike the light and see through the truth
For I'm the Deicide, Dominus, what could you do
Thou has failed you now, once again and always will
On the cross, forgotten son, a sacrifice it had to be done
Died for me, well that's too bad I don't believe
Killed by sins of the evil what I am
Your destruction, reasons of a world in pain
Blind disciple, you will never live again
Wage of death, course of life
Unsematic birth of the Deicide
Eyes of pain, pleads to death
As you're put to rest
Three days to rise
If he lives again he is sure to die
I killed Jesus
Just to see him bleed on his pulpis throne
I am evil
I'm the Deicide and i killed the lord
No more reasons
I will kill the world in another form
I rule this world
Nail him
I can strike the light and see trought the truth
For I'm the Deicide, Dominus, what could you do
Thou has failed you now, once again and always will
On the cross, forgotten son, a sacrificeit had to be done
Died for me, well that's too bad I don't believe
Killed by sins of the evil what I am
Your destruction, reasons of a world in pain
Blind disciple, you will never live again
I can strike the light and see through the truth
For I'm the Deicide, Dominus, what could you do
Thou has failed you now, once again and always will
On the cross, forgotten son, a sacrifice it had to be done
Died for me, well that's too bad I don't believe
Killed by sins of the evil what I am
Your destruction, reasons of a world in pain
Blind disciple, you will never live again
Wage of death, course of life
Unsematic birth of the Deicide
Eyes of pain, pleads to death
As you're put to rest
Three days to rise
If he lives again he is sure to die
I killed Jesus
Just to see him bleed on his pulpis throne
I am evil
I'm the Deicide and i killed the lord
No more reasons
I will kill the world in another form
I rule this world
Nail him
I can strike the light and see trought the truth
For I'm the Deicide, Dominus, what could you do
Thou has failed you now, once again and always will
On the cross, forgotten son, a sacrificeit had to be done
Died for me, well that's too bad I don't believe
Killed by sins of the evil what I am
Your destruction, reasons of a world in pain
Blind disciple, you will never live again
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Oh shut the fuck up. So it's not your kinda music? Get over it. And Visit_Romania, why are you calling Deicide "rock music"? It's fucking death metal, and yes it's satanic death metal at that. It's not giving you rockers a bad name seeing as it's not even in 'your' genre. And to quiffporn, stop being a tosser... I've seen your comments and the reactions on many other songs. It's obvious nobody likes your fucking opinion so stop making them and go back to the hole you crawled out of.
Royal Hermione Emma, I dunno why you bother coming on here to argue, you obviously have nothing else better to do. I'm not a 'bopper' or 'naiive kid' like you believe me to be - with your Harry Potter obsessed name I'm actually pointing the stereotyping finger at you at being one yourself. I happen to like death metal quite alot and Deicide is just one such band I listen to. Take your Christian beliefs elsewhere - I'm not going to bash them but obviously Deicide are, so stop 'offending' yourself even more and bugger off. I don't go to your favourite bands pages (heaven forbid, I wouldn't want to, gathering the shit you're bound to be listening to) and bag them out so grow up and don't do it here.
Bands like Dimmu Borgir, Immortal and Emperor are black metal. While Deicide has the satanic black metal tendencies, it is far from what you'd call black metal. The drums and guitar work are way different, and most black metal bands use some sort of keyboard work - there is nothing of the sort here. An ex Cannibal Corpse plays for Deicide now... and what is Cannibal Corpse? Death metal. They are similar, and always will be. There are varying degrees of each music genre - for example, Cradle of Filth can be categorised into many different sub-genres of black metal and goth metal. If you people don't like Deicide then don't fucking come here and bitch about it. I'm not commenting on your music taste and giving you shit about it, so have a bit of maturity and don't do it to mine.
don't be retarded and think metal is it's own genre. it's a sub genre that is split from rock. and death metal is just a sub-sub-genre so get over yourself you fucking goon
Last time people - find better things to do with your life then insult other peoples music tastes. I don't care what you listen to and if you don't like what I listen to then grow up a bit and fuck off. Really. I don't like being an asshole like this but with ignorant fools like yourself sometimes you just have to be.
correction arrakan loser.... umm...its not death metal deathmetal = sepultura , six feet under etc.. and its good to listen too... What you have there is black metal .... ( Samael rocks) any anti-christian sentiments give blackmetal and metal a bad name ..... you anti-christian crap heaps better stand your own ground for now... this is crap will always be crap and its gonna get crappier...!!!!
Ill try to be fair. Im religus (and before somebody says 'Woot!' Im not a christian, and Im not here to bash) I also LOVE evily heavy metal... death, black, gothic (even if gothic ant that heavy...) I cant help but love the sound of Deicide. Thing is, I dont listen to there anti-God songs, or Id be some kind of even bigger hipocrite (and I know that Deicide menas God-killer, so I suck anyways) I mostly stick to the (slightly) less satanic stuff like Dead By Dawn... I dont think anti-God songs are too cool at all. Im more of a live n let live kinda dude... Peace sunshine_arkhan, you got the right to listen to whatever you want. This IS a Deicide page ffs! And its gotta be said, meatl IS a sub genra of rock.
I know Im a bit late, but to the people who have bad comments about things they dont like please keep your mouth shut.It is really aggravating because when I see this shit I want to knock the fuckin teeth out of their mouth but I cant because theyre not anywhere to be seen. If you hate this band so much I dare you to walk up to someone who is wearing a deicide shirt and say that to themI DARE YOU
Hey I never denied the fact that metal is a sub-genre of rock, seeing as rock was around way longer than metal was, and it pretty much created it. So trying to sound know-it-all by telling me that isn't gonna work. But have a bit of maturity and don't insult other people's music taste on such an anonymous place like SongMeanings, cos you're just proving to everybody you got no balls. Just because you don't like it doesn't instantly make it "shit". I'm sure you don't like it when people insult things you listen to or believe in, so just have a bit of respect ok? Fuckers.
think about this, if there was no satan, what empowerment would the church have? jack shit!!! this is the point of the majority of deicide songs. listening to the lyrics you might undersdtand that. If you dont like it then great go to your own music and leave good coments on your fav songs, but for deicide engoers your fking up the comment spaces which should be left only for ppl to explain about the MEANING of the song, hence the name of this site "songMEANINGS" not motha fkn "songTRAHSERs"