"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.
Coming down from the mountain on high
Towards the battle we go side by side
Our hearts are filled with honour and pride
Cause we know our time has come
Silent voices down from below
Rising up through the ice and the snow
Ancient angers cast upon all
Through the lands of the slain
Through the dark night and through the rain
Fighting machine we have risen again
Stronger than all the world we arise...
Stand and fight, join the light
Into the battle with power and might
Sound the guns, raise the cannons of war...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now be unveiled
Darkened night set to the swallow the light
All is lost there's no one left to fight
Overpowered by the glory and might
Of the ones who stands tall
Fallen heroes scattered around
Deafened ears opens up to the sound
Painful cries rising forever more
From the victims of life and of war
Through the dark night and through the rain
Fighting machine we have risen again
Stronger than all the world we arise...
Stand and fight, join the light
Into the battle with power and might
Sound the guns, raise the cannons of war...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now be unveiled
No more hope of freedom
Our dreams are washed away
The second age is coming
The dawn of a new day
The judgement stands before us
The second king will rise
Our swords will shine with honour
As hatred fills the skies...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now?
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now?
Revelations will now?
Revelations will now be unveiled
Towards the battle we go side by side
Our hearts are filled with honour and pride
Cause we know our time has come
Silent voices down from below
Rising up through the ice and the snow
Ancient angers cast upon all
Through the lands of the slain
Through the dark night and through the rain
Fighting machine we have risen again
Stronger than all the world we arise...
Stand and fight, join the light
Into the battle with power and might
Sound the guns, raise the cannons of war...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now be unveiled
Darkened night set to the swallow the light
All is lost there's no one left to fight
Overpowered by the glory and might
Of the ones who stands tall
Fallen heroes scattered around
Deafened ears opens up to the sound
Painful cries rising forever more
From the victims of life and of war
Through the dark night and through the rain
Fighting machine we have risen again
Stronger than all the world we arise...
Stand and fight, join the light
Into the battle with power and might
Sound the guns, raise the cannons of war...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now be unveiled
No more hope of freedom
Our dreams are washed away
The second age is coming
The dawn of a new day
The judgement stands before us
The second king will rise
Our swords will shine with honour
As hatred fills the skies...
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now?
With the North Star to guide us
We ride on the sky
Blazing up through the heavens
Like eagles we fly
And the horsemen shall come
They will judge all your lives
Revelations will now?
Revelations will now?
Revelations will now be unveiled
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Great version of a great song,
Just A Little Lovin'
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Page
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Most of the time when someone ascribes religious meaning to a Dragonforce song, I sort of cringe. But this song does seem to be about the book of revelation.
"Blazing up through the heavens like eagles we fly And the horsemen shall come they will judge all your lives Revelations will now be unveiled"
It's a clear reference to the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the final judgement in that book.
"The second age is coming It's the dawn of a new day
Judgement stands before us The second king will rise"
In Revelation the second age comes after a final climactic battle with heaven and hell (how else would you end it? Even if you're not religious Revelation is a good read as fiction). So the song is about God's angels fighting the forces of hell. Pretty standard fantasy battle song other than coming from the bible.