"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.
Imperfection inherent
This disorder in creation of life
Within this endless reign
Vision of lost words rise
Black god to raise hate in veins of the apocalypse
Holocaust of this testament in perceived idea of doom
The left hand of darkness shall bring this final redemption
Conspiracy in the offerings shall ring in horns of requiem
The principle power of deception in tainting the idol's blood
Held in this testimony for the opening of revelation
Unleash the revenge
Bound in the inverted rites
Raise the great wargate in promise of the fallen ones
Adorned in rank through dark incantations, marching forth
Disfigure in abstract reason
Embrace the blind god
Suspension of this balance will break and fall
Be the sword of evil in dissecting of this praise of mercy
Monumental torture within the halls of the cleansed
Perverse in this exploration of a medium absorbed in fear
This lifeless blasphemy will assume the form of wrath
Desecration
An arousing repulsion to this spirited resistance
This desolate becoming
Supremacy
In attaining this oblivion
This force of hell
Great heavens will burn
Bastard in praise with tainted thought
Creation in death
Bound in nails
Great crown of razors
This truth bathed in lies
Fascination of the compelling terror that lies within dark hearts
Warning of the coming horsemen
These revelations will bring sacrifice
Descending
Chained under the earth
The judgment of rebirth
Arise from flame and blood
Revolt of descent
Rebellion in swarms
Dying forgiveness for unanswered prayers
This disorder in creation of life
Within this endless reign
Vision of lost words rise
Black god to raise hate in veins of the apocalypse
Holocaust of this testament in perceived idea of doom
The left hand of darkness shall bring this final redemption
Conspiracy in the offerings shall ring in horns of requiem
The principle power of deception in tainting the idol's blood
Held in this testimony for the opening of revelation
Unleash the revenge
Bound in the inverted rites
Raise the great wargate in promise of the fallen ones
Adorned in rank through dark incantations, marching forth
Disfigure in abstract reason
Embrace the blind god
Suspension of this balance will break and fall
Be the sword of evil in dissecting of this praise of mercy
Monumental torture within the halls of the cleansed
Perverse in this exploration of a medium absorbed in fear
This lifeless blasphemy will assume the form of wrath
Desecration
An arousing repulsion to this spirited resistance
This desolate becoming
Supremacy
In attaining this oblivion
This force of hell
Great heavens will burn
Bastard in praise with tainted thought
Creation in death
Bound in nails
Great crown of razors
This truth bathed in lies
Fascination of the compelling terror that lies within dark hearts
Warning of the coming horsemen
These revelations will bring sacrifice
Descending
Chained under the earth
The judgment of rebirth
Arise from flame and blood
Revolt of descent
Rebellion in swarms
Dying forgiveness for unanswered prayers
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