"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.
I had an out of body experience
The other day, her name was Jesus
And for her, everyone cried
Everyone cried, everyone cried
Try her philosophy, try her philosophy
Try her philosophy, try
You die for her philosophy, die for her philosophy
Die her philosophy, die
Crossed and terrored ravages of architecture
Lend me thy blades
We're crossed and terrored ravages of architecture
Hoist around the spade
Try her philosophy, try her philosophy
Try her philosophy, try
You die for her philosophy, die for her philosophy
Die her philosophy, die
Die
Die
Why
Why
Lie naked on the floor
And let the Messiah go through our souls
Lie naked on the floor
And let the Messiah go all through our souls
Die
Like a motherfucker
Die
Like a motherfucker
Why
Like a motherfucker
Like a motherfucker
I wanna fuck my way to the garden
'Cause everyone needs a motherfucker
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
The other day, her name was Jesus
And for her, everyone cried
Everyone cried, everyone cried
Try her philosophy, try her philosophy
Try her philosophy, try
You die for her philosophy, die for her philosophy
Die her philosophy, die
Crossed and terrored ravages of architecture
Lend me thy blades
We're crossed and terrored ravages of architecture
Hoist around the spade
Try her philosophy, try her philosophy
Try her philosophy, try
You die for her philosophy, die for her philosophy
Die her philosophy, die
Die
Die
Why
Why
Lie naked on the floor
And let the Messiah go through our souls
Lie naked on the floor
And let the Messiah go all through our souls
Die
Like a motherfucker
Die
Like a motherfucker
Why
Like a motherfucker
Like a motherfucker
I wanna fuck my way to the garden
'Cause everyone needs a motherfucker
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The following of a Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
The falling of Christ
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hmm ok for one its amazing to me how many people talk about God and Jesus and christianity but yet they have no idea about any of it. for one christianity is not the only' religion' that acknowledges Jesus or God. Jesus was the name given to the MAN, born of a virgin, on and on, Gods SON. so how do you tie this to christianity? he is talking in a feminine sense! Jesus is a rather commen name. it is used in other religions. I have heard it commented that he could be referring to the confusion that people create about the Jesus if the bible. so just remember whenever someone talks about God, or even Jesu its not necesarily christianity. and about knocking on christianity for all the evil things we have done in the past. like i get the great crusades all the time. that was the catholics, not christians. and yes we are two different belief systems. and even if christians did wage the crusades, americans put black people in slavery so hey since we cant let anything die, lets put down every american. you see my point? Christianity is based on the principle of Love. Jesus came and showed Love to people, he never shoved hell fire and brimstone down anyones throat. so please take into account that you are generalizing people and culture. when you yourself are apart of generilizations which you do not like.
I'd say Serj knows more about your religeon that you do. Your comment about other religeons using Jesus as a messiah is incorrect. Name one religeon other than christianity that uses Jesus. However, pretty much every other religeon has similar characters, and of course characters with the exact same characteristics and story as Jesus, so in other words, the bible is basically the same shit wrapped up in a different package, and everyone wears a different funny hat.<br /> <br /> How much love was in the inquisition, or the halocaust? How about that fuck off, Bush, if you're looking for more current events. And despite what you're little brain cannot comprehend, CATHOICS ARE CHRISTIANS YOU FUCK OFF. Catholisim is a denomination of christianity, as is protestant, lutheran, evangilist, baptist, what the fuck ever. Mormons on the other hand, follow a different religeon. You can say love all you want, but saying is much different than doing. Christians are some of the most unloving dicks on the planet, and a majority of them only do good things because they believe they will be punished if they don't.<br /> <br /> Nice that you would bring up slavery too, by the way, was 100% justified in the eyes of christianity.
Catholicism is NOT Christianity, but I can understand why people would think that when I consider the ecumenical movement in our day, which has confused a lot of people. Many people who call themselves "Christians" today are further from biblical Christianity than they realize, and they are simply following a new Christianity that was never taught in the Bible. In fact, much of what is falsely called "Christianity" today is nothing more than paganism in disguise. So I can also understand why many would see Christians as unloving since many who claim to be Christians are not truly following Christ. However, BIBLICAL Christianity teaches that it is "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to [God's] mercy He saved us..." (Titus 3:5).<br /> <br /> On the other hand, Catholics believe that they are saved by good deeds, just as Mormons. Not so with biblical Christianity, which teaches, "by the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified in [God's] sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20). Yet many who claim to be Christians are not grasping this, and that would explain why many of them are unloving. It is because they are trusting in their own "righteousness" (which Isaiah 64:6 describes as being "like filthy rags") rather than the righteousness of God.<br /> <br /> I am not trying to cram my beliefs down anyone's throat, but I just wanted to clear this up since their are so many misunderstandings about what Christianity is. I have explained it in more detail in the following two articles on my website....<br /> <br /> jdlarsenmn.tripod.com/gift.htm<br /> <br /> jdlarsenmn.tripod.com/gift_2.htm<br /> <br /> So anyone who is interested can check them out by copy pasting those two addresses into their address bar. In 2 Timothy 4:3-4, the Bible itself warned of a time when those who claim to be Christians would not endure sound doctrine, but would embrace doctrine according to their own desires - And that is exactly what we are seeing today. So I mainly wanted to make the point that someone is not a Christian just because they claim to be. But honestly, I am not trying to push this on anyone. People are free to believe what they want, but I just wanted to try to clear up some misunderstandings.