"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.
Gently hold our heads
Gently hold our heads on high
Aimless time in fear new hide
Overthrow the plan
Confusion lies in all my words
Mad is the soul
We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament
This is the dawning of a new age
A heart that beats the wrong way
Insanity's crescendo
Windcolour - second sight
A touch of silence and the violence of dark
Illusion span - the aroma of time
Shadowlife and the scent of nothingness
Infinite fall of instinct
Order of one spells deceit
Infinite lack of trust
Order of one obsolete
Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead?
When it's found, can judgement make amends?
From force-fed impressions
Let us mortify the mind
Each soul to violate
Each instinct to be rendered false
Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames
Now for the blood of heaven
Unlearn and the cleansing comes
Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses
Cursed victim of a distance near
The first dreams - the clearest vision
Aimlessly steer towards our night
We belong to thee
Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence
Entangled within
Dimly begotten in clarity found
Virginlike tears for impurity bound
Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky
To greet now this vision an emerald dawn
Empty the sun - carve out the wind
Insanity's crescendo
Tear out the blinded eye
Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear
Lightning veins in crude exterior
Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy
Lay down the law that made instince fall
Escape now and revert
This cleansing rebirth
Torn asunder be
Affect me not; darkened vision
Insanity's crescendo
Grimly tread the footsteps torn
Rebellious stand the seeker tall
The thorn of insanity's hand
Take this darkened vision from my sight
Nailed to the image of ignorance
Each soul to violate
For the blood of heaven
Gently hold our heads on high
Aimless time in fear new hide
Overthrow the plan
Confusion lies in all my words
Mad is the soul
We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament
This is the dawning of a new age
A heart that beats the wrong way
Insanity's crescendo
Windcolour - second sight
A touch of silence and the violence of dark
Illusion span - the aroma of time
Shadowlife and the scent of nothingness
Infinite fall of instinct
Order of one spells deceit
Infinite lack of trust
Order of one obsolete
Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead?
When it's found, can judgement make amends?
From force-fed impressions
Let us mortify the mind
Each soul to violate
Each instinct to be rendered false
Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames
Now for the blood of heaven
Unlearn and the cleansing comes
Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses
Cursed victim of a distance near
The first dreams - the clearest vision
Aimlessly steer towards our night
We belong to thee
Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence
Entangled within
Dimly begotten in clarity found
Virginlike tears for impurity bound
Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky
To greet now this vision an emerald dawn
Empty the sun - carve out the wind
Insanity's crescendo
Tear out the blinded eye
Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear
Lightning veins in crude exterior
Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy
Lay down the law that made instince fall
Escape now and revert
This cleansing rebirth
Torn asunder be
Affect me not; darkened vision
Insanity's crescendo
Grimly tread the footsteps torn
Rebellious stand the seeker tall
The thorn of insanity's hand
Take this darkened vision from my sight
Nailed to the image of ignorance
Each soul to violate
For the blood of heaven
Lyrics submitted by Day_Walker9
Insanity's Crescendo Lyrics as written by Fredrik Johansson Anders Jivarp
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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THis song seems a lot like, the person who the song is about, or the character. He can end his insanity with a simple will, but he somehow chooses fear over it, or to go blind. So Mikael is saying tear out your blind eyes, and come out of fear. A lot of DT songs, seem to have a feeling that Apathy is the root, and comfort in fear, rip it out and your problems end.
Great song. One of my favorites.
I can do much better then my first comment; Let me know if the rest of you agree with this statement: Succinctly put: It's a call to free the spirit of Humanity from the warping and torment of endless conditioning and abuse through releasing all negative impressions and pavlovian behaviors through a liberating fit of madness; thus reconnecting with and restablishing the true self.
I agree with both of you but I think Ixes has got it. It is how people are apathetic towards certain things and instead of letting ourselves go and letting our true selves show we choose to hide and lie to avoid possible conflict whereas the way forward is to speak our minds; transcend others who conform to others but just to be ourselves.
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"we belong to thee... unnerving silence" or "Affect me not; darkened vision" It is a conversation with his inner self, he wants to be released, and also he is afraid of his "god" and his "savior".