"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.
In the German internet classifieds
Was an ad for a man's demise
Then after death he'd eat his prize
A cannibal in modern times
Then to his ad a man replied
Agreed to what was advertised
His penis was cut off while still alive
He ate half his own penis before he died
Was an ad for a man's demise
Then after death he'd eat his prize
A cannibal in modern times
Then to his ad a man replied
Agreed to what was advertised
His penis was cut off while still alive
He ate half his own penis before he died
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Yeah, Armin Meiwes put out an internet ad that read "Looking for a well built man willing to be slaughtered" And he actually got a victim. And yes, the song is obviously true. His penis was cut off,and he did eat some of his own wang. But what the song doesn't mention is, that after he died, Armin Meiwes slapped him onto a giant meathook, and began to eat his body. I think I read that it took about a month. What's sick about this guy, is that most of this experience was on video tape.
BludgeonedExistenc is right.. Bernd, the man who responded to the advertisement, originally wanted Armin to bite it off.. but that didn't work, so he had to use a knife. Bernd originally tried to eat it raw, but it was too tough, so they cooked it instead, but after cooking it, it was too burnt to eat. He bled for three hours in a tub untill Armin Meiwes finally stabbed him in the throat and hung him on the meathook in "the slaughter room" (A room specificly created for that purpose), and tore off pieces of his flesh, storing him in the freeezer under pizza boxes and eating him gradually over the next few months. he was caught about a year later when a man saw the add on the website and contacted police, and his original sentence was only 8 years in jail, since at the time, cannibalism wasn't illegal in Germany.