"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.
A new revolution
The ultimate war
KMFDM is back for more
Twice the mayhem
Triple the force
Ten times the action
Total hardcore
Shanghai-Stockholm-Berlin-Tel Aviv
The world rotates to the Ultra-Heavy Beat
From the gutter to the top
KMFDM will never stop
Violence anger and anarchy
A megaton load of toxic debris
Money power all you can eat
The manifestation of ultimate greed
Tokyo-Moscow-Chicago-Madrid
The world rotates to the Ultra-Heavy Beat
From the gutter to the top
KMFDM will never stop
RIP THE SYSTEM throw it away
No legislation will stand in our way
Anti anti in the USA
Ends with an M
Begins with a K
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
Anti anti in the USA
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
Ends with an M
Begins with a K
Destroy
The ultimate war
KMFDM is back for more
Twice the mayhem
Triple the force
Ten times the action
Total hardcore
Shanghai-Stockholm-Berlin-Tel Aviv
The world rotates to the Ultra-Heavy Beat
From the gutter to the top
KMFDM will never stop
Violence anger and anarchy
A megaton load of toxic debris
Money power all you can eat
The manifestation of ultimate greed
Tokyo-Moscow-Chicago-Madrid
The world rotates to the Ultra-Heavy Beat
From the gutter to the top
KMFDM will never stop
RIP THE SYSTEM throw it away
No legislation will stand in our way
Anti anti in the USA
Ends with an M
Begins with a K
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
Anti anti in the USA
D.I.Y. destroy what destroys you
D.I.Y. do or die
Ends with an M
Begins with a K
Destroy
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