"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.
How did it feel to fuck a god?
One of the many worshipping cock facade
Did it give the power you believed?
Did your friends confirm all that you need?
Preach it now with such respect
Years later and it's still in effect
Hold it dear close to your soul
Now come closer so my message can be told
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
It's all a part of the game
You say it proud with no shame
Brag about it all the time
Exception to the rules, so divine
Now it's done it's all you have
The one time in your life that you could grasp
The only thing that ever filled the hole
So fuck, on you have no soul
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
I will take you
Then will break you
Push you into all that I do
Die
It makes me feel so fucking sick
To think of his filthy dick
But it starts to hurt me more
When I think you are a whore
Little girl so loose and wrecked
How many did that man infect?
Could you give him anymore?
Than what you gave you little whore
You're all the same that's what you're for
Kill everyone of them
Fuck - Fuck - Fuck
Because Everyone Dies
Kill - Kill - Kill
Because Everyone Dies
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
I will take you
Then will break you
Push you into all that I do
One of the many worshipping cock facade
Did it give the power you believed?
Did your friends confirm all that you need?
Preach it now with such respect
Years later and it's still in effect
Hold it dear close to your soul
Now come closer so my message can be told
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
It's all a part of the game
You say it proud with no shame
Brag about it all the time
Exception to the rules, so divine
Now it's done it's all you have
The one time in your life that you could grasp
The only thing that ever filled the hole
So fuck, on you have no soul
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
I will take you
Then will break you
Push you into all that I do
Die
It makes me feel so fucking sick
To think of his filthy dick
But it starts to hurt me more
When I think you are a whore
Little girl so loose and wrecked
How many did that man infect?
Could you give him anymore?
Than what you gave you little whore
You're all the same that's what you're for
Kill everyone of them
Fuck - Fuck - Fuck
Because Everyone Dies
Kill - Kill - Kill
Because Everyone Dies
Feel - every one of them
Fuck - everyone of them
Touch -everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
Break - every one of them
Suck - everyone of them
Kill - everyone of them
Because Everyone Dies
I will take you
Then will break you
Push you into all that I do
Lyrics submitted by SincerelyBeth
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i strongly agree, i got into these guys back in like '00, but i do still think that the meat hooks were badass!