"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.
Black pyramids under martian sun,
Priests chant ancient necropsalms,
Summon winds across the desert sands,
Sun sets on this dying land.
Black ships tear through martian skies,
Earthbound send by sorcerous flight,
13 years through black depths of space,
Ancient race seed this cursed place.
Come my fanatics come to the sabbat....
Com my fanatics come to the sabbat....
Priests chant ancient necropsalms,
Summon winds across the desert sands,
Sun sets on this dying land.
Black ships tear through martian skies,
Earthbound send by sorcerous flight,
13 years through black depths of space,
Ancient race seed this cursed place.
Come my fanatics come to the sabbat....
Com my fanatics come to the sabbat....
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"Eko Eko Azarak", and the rest of the chanting is part of a Wiccan chant.
This song borrows SOME of it's incantation lyrics from a Japanese Horror film. I don't remember the title of the film, but the lyrics "Eko Eko Azarak" and others from the chanting part are borrowed directly from it. Overall, I see this song is just an opening incantation-jam to the "We Live" album.
I smell rock and doom. also this dude is right.
This song rocks... actually the movie is pretty bad ass too... I yet have to see the 2nd and 3rd.. Nothing beats an occult japanese horror movie!! FUCK YEAH!
fuck i love to play this song right after i wake up from sleep and i roll my 1º one, it's like a new sunrise.
Sounds to me like an apocalypse on mars. But I put my money that it's Lovecratian in some way.
We go to mars to colonize, and find that the old gods are there as well. How long have these old gods existed? Before earth.... Before mars... Before the milky way? We chant to the horned god of the wild to invoke his omnipresent essence, and it exists there as well. So we begin a new civilization with the old gods still guiding us. How often has this.. Will this happen..? What will happen when we find the beings that brought this god force to mars? War? Chaos? Fear by extreme transformations in the way we view the world we once thought we knew? Eko eko azarak is the chant to the horned one, and he existed far before this "Wicca" ever existed, and he will remain much longer after it burns out as well. So, fellow message boarders, chant with us and come to the sabbath under the shadow of pyramids that exist in every reality.