"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.
Where is your god in the hour of need, caught in their light and the scheming of things
Prey to a lord of assumption you heal, what will you find when you see he's not real
Baptized in lies and deceit, what is so hard to believe
When was the last time you gave of yourself, not pushing bibles and preaching of hell
Looking for souls in this world to possess, no reservations are promised in death
Manifestation is pulling you in, Never to be seen again
Once it is known that god don't exist, undo the fist of hypocrisies grip
They will all pay for the lies, DIE
Heaven unseen when you fall to dead dreams, call unto god he wont answer the screams
Feel like a fool when your laid to your rest, now and forever resented in death
No where around in my circle of friends, never to be seen again
Once it is known that god don't exist, undo the fist of hypocrisies grip
They will all pay for the lies, DIE
Prey to a lord of assumption you heal, what will you find when you see he's not real
Baptized in lies and deceit, what is so hard to believe
When was the last time you gave of yourself, not pushing bibles and preaching of hell
Looking for souls in this world to possess, no reservations are promised in death
Manifestation is pulling you in, Never to be seen again
Once it is known that god don't exist, undo the fist of hypocrisies grip
They will all pay for the lies, DIE
Heaven unseen when you fall to dead dreams, call unto god he wont answer the screams
Feel like a fool when your laid to your rest, now and forever resented in death
No where around in my circle of friends, never to be seen again
Once it is known that god don't exist, undo the fist of hypocrisies grip
They will all pay for the lies, DIE
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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