"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.
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
Numb all through, I can still feel you
Hear your call, underneath it all
Kill my brain, yet you still remain
Crucified, after all I've died
After all I've tried, you are still inside
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
(You remain, I am stained)
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
Numb all through, I can still feel you
Hear your call, underneath it all
Kill my brain, yet you still remain
Crucified, after all I've died
After all I've tried, you are still inside
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
All I do, I can still feel you
(You remain, I am stained)
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Underneath It All Lyrics as written by Trent Reznor
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This song while i have no idea of the meaning always reminded me of a game i used to play as a kid. Dr Brain. i don't know why the sounds of machines are constant in both so maybe thats why. This is a great instrumental and Further Down The Spiral in my opinion is the best remix Cd i've heard from any band
made by Richard D. James AKA aphex twin. so is the beauty of being numb. both on his LP 23 mixes for cash
this song is about ......................... sorry, i just wanted to be the first person to post on this.
Actually i always thought that this song has no meaning at all.
i think its kinda interesting to think where the remixes and such would have fitted into the Album. I think this is the subjects life through the eyes of the machine that controls him, and threatens his life. I think it would have gone right after The Becoming. This song is one of my top five best Instrumental songs ever. its something that you can get lost in. oh the harmany of machines
Though the music sounds industrial, I get the image of an endless snowscape when I listen to this song. Everything is white, a nothingness really. I feel myself completely alone in a cold, desolate land. That's what I get out of it at least...
what is this a remix of? i can't figure it out...
i thought it was just an instrumental trent created.
I heard this in the background of an episode of top gear (not that i watch top gear, it was just on). really didn't go.
love the song tho :) one of my favourites