"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.
Stand back keep away
i'm not giving up my soul today
Evil men trying to eat at me
Is there a lesson to be learned
Another night another damn fright
I'm holding on to my head
If they look like dead and act like dead...
Well dead shouldn't walk in my house
Calling my name, begging my brains
Inviting me in, making me one of them
I'd rather tear my heart out
I don't want to give in
I don't want to concede
I don't want to be
Where they wander
I don't want to submit
To their way of politics
I don't want to be
Where they wander
Endless pain their domain
Walking through the night
Nekorman finally eat at me
His tainted heart got to me
We are always gonna be
Forever we will be together in our lust
well we walk like dead and smell like dead
We look etter than when we met
Calling your name, wanting your brains
Inviting you in, making you one of us
We'd like to tear your heart out
i'm not giving up my soul today
Evil men trying to eat at me
Is there a lesson to be learned
Another night another damn fright
I'm holding on to my head
If they look like dead and act like dead...
Well dead shouldn't walk in my house
Calling my name, begging my brains
Inviting me in, making me one of them
I'd rather tear my heart out
I don't want to give in
I don't want to concede
I don't want to be
Where they wander
I don't want to submit
To their way of politics
I don't want to be
Where they wander
Endless pain their domain
Walking through the night
Nekorman finally eat at me
His tainted heart got to me
We are always gonna be
Forever we will be together in our lust
well we walk like dead and smell like dead
We look etter than when we met
Calling your name, wanting your brains
Inviting you in, making you one of us
We'd like to tear your heart out
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
Just A Little Lovin'
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Nekorman finally eat at me His tainted heart got to me We are always gonna be
Forever we will be together in our lust well we walk like dead and smell like dead We look etter than when we met
amazingly sweet love lyrics. nekroman and patricia are so beautiful together.