"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.
Some may want to say that were killers
But we do what we must
And we feel we are just
Cutting off the head of the imperial serpent
Taking back the land for the hands
That have worked it.
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
Some may want to say that were heartless
That were staking our claim for political gain.
But they don't see the power we've harnessed.
With the masses united
It's pointless to fight it.
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
But we do what we must
And we feel we are just
Cutting off the head of the imperial serpent
Taking back the land for the hands
That have worked it.
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
Some may want to say that were heartless
That were staking our claim for political gain.
But they don't see the power we've harnessed.
With the masses united
It's pointless to fight it.
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world
History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls
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well you apparently are a member of the straightedge movement or cant think for yourself and have seen people do that with thier names either way leave music has no purpose without meaning it is about the bolshevik revolution in which trotsky participated pointing out that violence and destruction are neccessary in order to create a better civilization, to restart so please do some research as opposed to listening to something which you may very well disagree with ok...