"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.
If there was a God,
Im sure he would be hated.
For making bugs, in this hell he has created.
Get on a coat, put on a hat,
I am infested
It happens just like that.
Im sure I hate 'em
There ain't no maybes,
Bodylice, and crabs,
Headlice, and scabies.
You take your pick,
they make me sick,
While I scratch until I bleed
Soon they'll be scabs for me to pick.
It drives me mad,
As I scratch my body raw.
Sometimes it feels like sex
When Im scratching with my paws..
Sometimes it feels better
When it gets wetter
Lubed up with puss and blood
But later, Im upsetter.
Cause of pain,
The rash becomes inflamed,
I simply lost control..
The scabies can't be blamed..
Oh yes, they can!
I'll go complain,
To the Drop-in Centre clinic,
'Hook me up with some Lindane!'
Oh yes, Lindane
The stuff for the occasion,
This lotion gives you cancer
With too many applications. [x3]
But I must use it.
I'll be the tested.
This time, it's gone too far.
My body is infested!
I am infested!
I am infested!
This time it's gone too far,
My body is infested!
I am infested!
I'll be the tested!
This time it's gone too far,
My body is infested!
One bug, two bug, three bug, four.
These bugs just FUCK AND EAT
Soon there'll be hundreds more
(To) Infest my head,
Infest my bed,
These bugs won't stop infesting
'Til I kill 'em all, dead!
Then, there's the eggs
They'll fucking hatch!
If I dont delouse again,
In seven days, they'll hatch!
And at this time,
I will truely go insane
My nervous system shot
By the use of the Lindane
It is this lotion,
On my generation tested,
This time it's gone too far
My body is INFESTED!
I am infested!
I am infested!
This time it's gone too far,
My body is infested!
I am infested!
I am infested!
This time it's gone too far,
My body is infested
Lyrics submitted by OmegaTLE
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Song rating:8/10
Song Meaning. Well go look at Choking Victims song. Same thing.
Note:I prefer choking Victims over this one. This one is still good.
never heard LoC's version of it, whats it on?
im not sure, i don't think its on an actual album. im sure they play it at shows all the time anyways though