"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.
This is a tale of liberation
This dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations!!
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number 1 liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold
To save you we may have to kill you!
For freedom you may have to die
Number 1 at liberation
Liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly...
Freedom from...
Life
This is a tale of liberation
This dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations!! NOW
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number 1 liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold
To save you we may have to kill you!
For freedom you may have to die
Number 1 at liberation
Liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly...
The government lies
The masses die
The military lies
And we all die!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
This dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations!!
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number 1 liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold
To save you we may have to kill you!
For freedom you may have to die
Number 1 at liberation
Liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly...
Freedom from...
Life
This is a tale of liberation
This dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations!! NOW
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number 1 liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold
To save you we may have to kill you!
For freedom you may have to die
Number 1 at liberation
Liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly...
The government lies
The masses die
The military lies
And we all die!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
Broadcast it from all stations
This is our liberation song!!!
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Very well done way to made their critic on USA x Iraq war. Its about how the government deliberate use the word LIBERATION to their agressive tatics against Iraq. It was no fucking Iraq liberation,but opressive military action to run the country and get the control of OIL reserves. Like D.O.A. sung "War!What it is good for.ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING!!!" tHIS IS Anti FLAG Iraq liberation song