"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.
Whores
Whores
Whores
Whores
Your windows boarded up, your private lives exposed
The talk shows pump it up, lab rats diseased for show
We're doomed to use the slang, outbreak of drug roulette
A church burned to the ground, not even noticed yet
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
Whores
Whores
Whores
Whores
A backwards swastika, the black skin riddled in lead
A Nazi Gangster Jew, it beats a dog that's dead
It's in to use the slang, outbreak of gun roulette
The cross slants to the side, will prove the damnedest yet
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
Leads to nowhere
The backlash dislocates, an untimely reign of death
The wolf poked with the stick, awaits with cancerous breath
(Leads to nowhere)
Outsiders still suppose, there's Holy streets to roam
The truth should not surprise, your homes were built on lies
Lies, yeah
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
Whores
Whores
Whores
Your windows boarded up, your private lives exposed
The talk shows pump it up, lab rats diseased for show
We're doomed to use the slang, outbreak of drug roulette
A church burned to the ground, not even noticed yet
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
Whores
Whores
Whores
Whores
A backwards swastika, the black skin riddled in lead
A Nazi Gangster Jew, it beats a dog that's dead
It's in to use the slang, outbreak of gun roulette
The cross slants to the side, will prove the damnedest yet
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
Leads to nowhere
The backlash dislocates, an untimely reign of death
The wolf poked with the stick, awaits with cancerous breath
(Leads to nowhere)
Outsiders still suppose, there's Holy streets to roam
The truth should not surprise, your homes were built on lies
Lies, yeah
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Thirteen, thirteen
Steps
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13 Steps to Nowhere Lyrics as written by Rex Brown Philip Anselmo
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@CHEGnotKEG the beginning of the song he says whores the 13 step is a joke by the 12 step program the 13 step means not being tempted by a women while using the 12 step program , because it actually happens all the time and usually they begin using drugs together ..so in other words dont be tempted or fall into that trap also in the song drag the waters he is talking about Sweet is the slice and the lips, you're going to have that woman, she is your favorite lay<br /> Promised you swore that no one had been there, and she was going to keep it that way<br /> Let it move in, you got thin, and got high and your money went and so did your friends<br /> But she's by your side, and her smile cannot hide the premonition of the beckoning end//// I mean it's very obvious. he his saying he fucked up or a friend fucked up by allowing a woman to overcome his desire for drugs, but they end up falling back into drug use. again, referring to the 13 step I know what the 13 step means because I used the 12-step program. I guess it could be something else but Iam almost certain. I also did the 13 step and failed and ended up back in the program. you think if I find love, I won't need drugs etc and you are detoxing so it's easy to get caught up with a woman and fucking it up for both of you ,.. <br /> The end