"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.
Been to this place before, excavation
Scrawling a name again
Touch stony face restored
Can't read the name, collapsible fingertips
Weeping within the hot of desert weeps
To brood inside the skull of wax and time
Taking no step alone until you can
Crying on the downed stones
Crying on the downed stones
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Oh, pillamyd
Fuck in the vessel head, working with slaves
Dust in the eyes of men
Offer nocturnal prayer, alter ablaze
Magic obtained, deciphering pain
Moving inside you when you seem asleep
Influence all to step beyond the gate
When you're slipping in preservative
Hydroglyphic downed stones
Hydroglyphic downed stones
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Oh pillamyd
A pillamyd built
Pillamyd guilt inside
[Incomprehensible]
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Scrawling a name again
Touch stony face restored
Can't read the name, collapsible fingertips
Weeping within the hot of desert weeps
To brood inside the skull of wax and time
Taking no step alone until you can
Crying on the downed stones
Crying on the downed stones
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Oh, pillamyd
Fuck in the vessel head, working with slaves
Dust in the eyes of men
Offer nocturnal prayer, alter ablaze
Magic obtained, deciphering pain
Moving inside you when you seem asleep
Influence all to step beyond the gate
When you're slipping in preservative
Hydroglyphic downed stones
Hydroglyphic downed stones
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Oh pillamyd
A pillamyd built
Pillamyd guilt inside
[Incomprehensible]
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
It's etched in stone
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
By handfuls you will build a pillamyd
(Pillamyd)
Lyrics submitted by BobbyjointRitual
Pillamyd Lyrics as written by Rex Brown Philip Anselmo
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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