"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.
Here come the 757's.
If you don't ask why then you deserve to die
just like the millions that are ground under foot
by the powers-that-be and their policies
and a society that let's their bosses do as they please
and never asks "why?" even as the death tolls rise
until some 757's start to fall from the sky
and some more innocent die
and STILL we don't ask "why?"
instead we fall in line
and we drink up the Kool-Aid
If they shot Kennedy just imagine what they'll do to you or me,
but you STILL believe...
So burn then coward,
but don't you dare pray.
Burn then,
for what's been done in your name.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
If you don't ask why then you deserve to die;
(BTW) that little sticker of a flag on your car means nothing.
For the terror you've allowed in your name,
when the planes fall again,
your prayers will mean nothing.
If they shot Kennedy just imagine what they'll do to you and me,
but you still believe all their lies, HA!
That sticker of a flag on your car means nothing
and when the sky falls again
your prayers will mean nothing.
So burn then coward,
but don't you dare pray.
Burn then,
for what's been done in your name.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
Die then, sucker,
but don't you pray.
Die then, fool, and burn for your shame.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
Drink up. Die.
The hour's late and we're so far astray
but we refuse to see that the end of the party is near.
And all that hatred and rage we've made
is coming at us just like a jet plane.
If you don't ask why then you deserve to die
just like the millions that are ground under foot
by the powers-that-be and their policies
and a society that let's their bosses do as they please
and never asks "why?" even as the death tolls rise
until some 757's start to fall from the sky
and some more innocent die
and STILL we don't ask "why?"
instead we fall in line
and we drink up the Kool-Aid
If they shot Kennedy just imagine what they'll do to you or me,
but you STILL believe...
So burn then coward,
but don't you dare pray.
Burn then,
for what's been done in your name.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
If you don't ask why then you deserve to die;
(BTW) that little sticker of a flag on your car means nothing.
For the terror you've allowed in your name,
when the planes fall again,
your prayers will mean nothing.
If they shot Kennedy just imagine what they'll do to you and me,
but you still believe all their lies, HA!
That sticker of a flag on your car means nothing
and when the sky falls again
your prayers will mean nothing.
So burn then coward,
but don't you dare pray.
Burn then,
for what's been done in your name.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
Die then, sucker,
but don't you pray.
Die then, fool, and burn for your shame.
So fucking burn then.
You had your chance:
now it's time to die.
Burn then.
You drank the Kool-Aid, fool,
so die.
Drink up. Die.
The hour's late and we're so far astray
but we refuse to see that the end of the party is near.
And all that hatred and rage we've made
is coming at us just like a jet plane.
Lyrics submitted by maggot#8
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