"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.
Call it our nature or call it what you will
automatic, trapped in the undercurrent
presumed an unstoppable force
through the ages spilled onto pages
shine on you nonbelievers
you can call it colossal upheaval
when we wake up from our induced slumber
they can try but they can't conquer us all
compelling evidence out in the open
there's not even anybody to hide it from
what it looks like on the outside constantly
reflects how we perceive it
and it's not always what you think
shine on you nonbelievers
you can call it colossal upheaval
when we wake up from our induced slumber
they can try but they can't conquer us all
knee deep in the belly of the beast
offering us another cut-rate version
of your dream come true
automatic, trapped in the undercurrent
presumed an unstoppable force
through the ages spilled onto pages
shine on you nonbelievers
you can call it colossal upheaval
when we wake up from our induced slumber
they can try but they can't conquer us all
compelling evidence out in the open
there's not even anybody to hide it from
what it looks like on the outside constantly
reflects how we perceive it
and it's not always what you think
shine on you nonbelievers
you can call it colossal upheaval
when we wake up from our induced slumber
they can try but they can't conquer us all
knee deep in the belly of the beast
offering us another cut-rate version
of your dream come true
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The name kind gives it away don't you think? I think he is talking about America in genrel (I love my country, don't get me wrong but there is things that need to be changed) and the way it works itself. The song is just like "Sadist Nation"
"Call it our nature or call it what you will Automatic, trapped in the undercurrent Presumed an unstoppable force Through the ages spilled onto pages"
This right here is basically refering to how its human nature to try and rule over others. How its "automatic", that we just do things according to human nature and habit, and we are "trapped" in our ways. The nation is presumed an unstoppable force because its so succesful, and its written in textbooks, history books "pages".
"Shine on you nonbelievers You can call it colossal upheaval When we wake up from our induced slumber They can try, but they can’t conquer us all!'
Now he is telling those who believe it not to be an "unstoppable force" to "shine on" and not give into its imperialistic might. He can also be refering to two things. one being if they some how defeat the empire it would be an colossal upheaval to the empire its self. or as when the people "wake up" an see that the empire is a threat to there normal daily life, so now that they've realized there look on things has been changed and that can be called a "colossal upheaval" in itself. So when they "wake" up from there "induced slumber" they can take measures into protecting themselves. I guess the empire itself induced them, the people. Now they believe its impossiable for the impire to "conquer" them all because they have woken up.
"Compelling evidence out in the open There’s not even anybody to hide it from What it looks like on the outside constantly reflects How we perceive it and it’s not always what you think"
I think what it is trying to say here that the Imperial nation which is trying not to seem like one, can't hide the facts, and that it has shown its real intentions to everyone. Then I guess its saying something like how it "looks like on the outside constantly reflects" what we are aware of, or recognize, though thats not always the case.
"Knee deep in the belly of the beast offering us Another cut-rate version of your dream come true" This is a powerful line. Johan in the bible was swallod by a whale. This could be the case in this line. It does have a biblical refrences to other things. Ether way it lets us know that we are not in a good position and its not quit what we had hoped for or imagind.