"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 always thought if you want to change the world
Then you have to start with yourself
So if the heads of state want to end terrorism
They should go ahead and kill themselves
I will not sign my blind faith away
To an unjustly leader of the unjust police state
Corporate masters live in their cess pool
Of extreme wealth and excess
Whoa oh Whoa oh
The phrase world leaders
Does not describe the heads of state
Those few in power
Work only for the corporate sake
No action, no interest, no humanity at all
As the corporate towers rise up
They watch the people fall
A government untouchable by the people
Run by the corporations of the world
Enslaving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters
Profits put before people
Equal force, equal reaction
Equal suppression, equal intimidation
Equal prosecution, equal propaganda,
Equal rebellion!
I will not sign my blind faith away
To an unjustly leader of the unjust police state
Corporate masters live in their cess pool
Of extreme wealth and excess
Whoa oh Whoa oh (Yeah!)
The phrase world leaders
Does not describe the heads of state
Those few in power
Work only for the corporate sake
No action, no interest, no humanity at all
As the corporate towers rise up...
We've got to make a change
No religions, sexual preference, and regardless of your race
We've got to make a change
No war, corporate run governments, no police state
We've got to make a change
For the good of the human race
We've got to make a change
For the good of the human race!
And you still look me in the eye
And you still wonder why...
Your cities fuckin burn!
No borders, no nations
No flags, no patriots
Whoa oh Whoa oh (x5)
Then you have to start with yourself
So if the heads of state want to end terrorism
They should go ahead and kill themselves
I will not sign my blind faith away
To an unjustly leader of the unjust police state
Corporate masters live in their cess pool
Of extreme wealth and excess
Whoa oh Whoa oh
The phrase world leaders
Does not describe the heads of state
Those few in power
Work only for the corporate sake
No action, no interest, no humanity at all
As the corporate towers rise up
They watch the people fall
A government untouchable by the people
Run by the corporations of the world
Enslaving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters
Profits put before people
Equal force, equal reaction
Equal suppression, equal intimidation
Equal prosecution, equal propaganda,
Equal rebellion!
I will not sign my blind faith away
To an unjustly leader of the unjust police state
Corporate masters live in their cess pool
Of extreme wealth and excess
Whoa oh Whoa oh (Yeah!)
The phrase world leaders
Does not describe the heads of state
Those few in power
Work only for the corporate sake
No action, no interest, no humanity at all
As the corporate towers rise up...
We've got to make a change
No religions, sexual preference, and regardless of your race
We've got to make a change
No war, corporate run governments, no police state
We've got to make a change
For the good of the human race
We've got to make a change
For the good of the human race!
And you still look me in the eye
And you still wonder why...
Your cities fuckin burn!
No borders, no nations
No flags, no patriots
Whoa oh Whoa oh (x5)
Lyrics submitted by xstaticflarex
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Oh, hell yes. It's about time someone got these lyrics-- thanks, man! Anti-Flag always has an always will kick ass.
yea dude i fuckin ordered this cd online on the 4th, and also i made some changes from what the book said cause obviously he doesnt say:
And you still look me in the eye And you still wonder why... We are still so pissed! haha good thing they revised that shit.
ANTI-FLAG, this song is so great, anti-flag is great, id like to heard die for you goverment revised thou, and you system dosent work for you cuz just wasnt in them. This cd is so great so far i havent heard it all but ive heeard most of it anti-flag has to be one of the greatist bands on earth. When i heard this song i was so releaved cuz i thought mobilize was there last cd, i also like the cover songs that went on in this cd, if you have a chance buy the cd. "No borders, no nations No flags, no patriots Whoa oh Whoa oh " What dose that mean anyway?, sometimes they dont make much sense but there so fucking great when they do
ANTI-FLAG, this song is so great, anti-flag is great, id like to heard die for you goverment revised thou, and you system dosent work for you cuz just wasnt in them. This cd is so great so far i havent heard it all but ive heeard most of it anti-flag has to be one of the greatist bands on earth. When i heard this song i was so releaved cuz i thought mobilize was there last cd, i also like the cover songs that went on in this cd, if you have a chance buy the cd. "No borders, no nations No flags, no patriots Whoa oh Whoa oh " What dose that mean anyway?, sometimes they dont make much sense but there so fucking great when they do
"No borders, no nations! No flags, no patriots! whoa oh, whoa oh!"
Means that #2 thinks that borders and nations are unnecessary things that just contribute to nationalism. Nationalism in a sense can be used as a manipulative tool to drive people to go to war against others that aren't even their business. Like the world leaders are telling them how to act and react and they get swamped by all the state run rhetoric telling them who to hate. All this is first done by seperating states with borders, states will start to form a sort of pride that would distinguish them from other states and this pride can be detrimental (see nazi germany in wwii). "No flags, no patriots", because patriots are flag waving people who believe in seperating themselves from others and are willing to die for their government and go to war, etc. Flags are viewed by anti-flag as symbols used to instill the sort of honor in people that would make them impose physical violence in other countries sometimes due to racial tension or foreign policy between governments that just went wrong.
2 is an awesome lyricist! straight forward lyrics, great views, he just says his opinion out in the open :D. ant-flag rocked the trocadero at the plea for peace tour too. check them out live
antiflagUNVI, were you trying to say that justin sane wasnt in die for the government and there system doesnt work for you? i believe he is the one that sings the song "die for the government." along with "no more dead" and "punk by the book". maybe your thinking of Chris #2
I think what was meant was a newer version with the new band.
what CD is this great song on? i cant find it on any of them. if you go to discography it gives you a list of the tracks on all the CDs, but i cant find this song.
never mind its on the BYO split series CD with the bouncing souls