"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.
The Anarchists are positive like bees around a hive
Yes, protesters sit in the streets with signs signs signs
The slept of the world
Have filled us to the brim
But some must have cast that balance
Based on those who live in sin.
It's unbelievable
It's unbelievable to watch the system crumble
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
We've been cut up
We've been shut up
For far too long.
Pull the feeding tube, out of the mouth of democracy
Tell 'em we're starving to death
What's buried in the ground
We can all breathe free
We can all breathe free
It's unbelievable
It's unbelievable to watch the system crumble
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
We've been cut up
We've been shut up
For far too long.
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Policeman
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Takes his gun to her head
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Just like he's beating the drum
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
And those reporters dance like hell
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
To the sounds.
Yes, protesters sit in the streets with signs signs signs
The slept of the world
Have filled us to the brim
But some must have cast that balance
Based on those who live in sin.
It's unbelievable
It's unbelievable to watch the system crumble
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
We've been cut up
We've been shut up
For far too long.
Pull the feeding tube, out of the mouth of democracy
Tell 'em we're starving to death
What's buried in the ground
We can all breathe free
We can all breathe free
It's unbelievable
It's unbelievable to watch the system crumble
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
This political shakedown, coming correct from the underground
We've been cut up
We've been shut up
For far too long.
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Policeman
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Takes his gun to her head
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
Just like he's beating the drum
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
And those reporters dance like hell
It's unbelievable (whoa whoa)
To the sounds.
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
War Sucks, Let's Party! Lyrics as written by Patrick C. Bollinger Christopher Lee Barker
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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I love this song, it's so fucking great!!! The lyrics are, exactly as faileddesign said, about anarchy running rampant and the song actually manges to sound exactly like that. I can't listen to this song without wanting to dance like a maniac :D