"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.
Saunguine seas of bigotry
death in the sqaundering for
a feat for the king of serpents
the malice in the smog
hes wicked hes mad
blood rag clad under his suit (under his sanguine seas of bigotry suit)
this malice in the air
stench of trembling boots
the wicked wing it whistles and
gabbles in the rain (and gabbles in the rain)
you hear the cries from the graveyard
then hide and wait for rain
these hideous days of malice
sanguine cement torn sea
tell me how to listen
then tell me how to be
then malice in this for
flaming desert smog
law of the sod
this page is getting hotter
this page is getting hotter
growing everyday less for you and me
sanguine seas of bigotry
sowing misery the tide has risen over me
sanguine seas of bigotry
run run run away try to swim and
float away
sanguine seas of bigotry
wake up in the sea not the place you
want to be
sanguine seas of bigotry
what happened to the ones who came
through?
what happened to the one who came
through?
did they find a place to be?
growing everyday less for your and me
sanguine seas of bigotry
sowing misery the tide has risen over
thee
sanguine seas of bigotry
its all about the bigger clout
you got to always heed your guard
so if youve got the short amount
then ill see you by the bar
sanguine seas of bigotry
what happened to the ones who came
through
what happened to the ones who came
through (you hear the cries from the graveyard)
the wicked wind it whistles and
gabbles in the rain (you hear the cries
from the graveyard)
you hear the cries from the graveyard
then hide and wait for rain
the wicked wind it whisles and
gabbles in the rain
you heard the cries from the graveyard
the wicked wind it whistles and
gabbles in the rain
you hear the cries from the graveyard
death in the sqaundering for
a feat for the king of serpents
the malice in the smog
hes wicked hes mad
blood rag clad under his suit (under his sanguine seas of bigotry suit)
this malice in the air
stench of trembling boots
the wicked wing it whistles and
gabbles in the rain (and gabbles in the rain)
you hear the cries from the graveyard
then hide and wait for rain
these hideous days of malice
sanguine cement torn sea
tell me how to listen
then tell me how to be
then malice in this for
flaming desert smog
law of the sod
this page is getting hotter
this page is getting hotter
growing everyday less for you and me
sanguine seas of bigotry
sowing misery the tide has risen over me
sanguine seas of bigotry
run run run away try to swim and
float away
sanguine seas of bigotry
wake up in the sea not the place you
want to be
sanguine seas of bigotry
what happened to the ones who came
through?
what happened to the one who came
through?
did they find a place to be?
growing everyday less for your and me
sanguine seas of bigotry
sowing misery the tide has risen over
thee
sanguine seas of bigotry
its all about the bigger clout
you got to always heed your guard
so if youve got the short amount
then ill see you by the bar
sanguine seas of bigotry
what happened to the ones who came
through
what happened to the ones who came
through (you hear the cries from the graveyard)
the wicked wind it whistles and
gabbles in the rain (you hear the cries
from the graveyard)
you hear the cries from the graveyard
then hide and wait for rain
the wicked wind it whisles and
gabbles in the rain
you heard the cries from the graveyard
the wicked wind it whistles and
gabbles in the rain
you hear the cries from the graveyard
Lyrics submitted by carnal_passion
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