"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.
We rise up from the tomb
bloody and covered with worms
today is the day of doom
a hunger for flesh is the cure
rise up from the ground
an army ready to kill
zombified nations of blood
have taken over the the earth... has died
a shallow giant grave
a blood soaked skull
a terror greater than death
Tear away the skin
a skeleton exposed to be broken
in the ground, but soon to live
the maggot infested dead
awaken from their rest
to kill again
We kill again to satisfy
our hunger will always be blood
Death is now on its way, waiting to end today
sludge of the human waste, you will have died in vane
a plague has been let loose
sickness within us grows
death is now on it's way, waiting to end today
Doomsday, doomsday, doomsday
Death is now on it's way, waiting to end today
We rise up from the tomb
bloody and covered with worms
today is the day of doom
a hunger for flesh is the cure
rise up from the ground
an army ready to kill
zombified nations of blood
have taken over the the earth
bloody and covered with worms
today is the day of doom
a hunger for flesh is the cure
rise up from the ground
an army ready to kill
zombified nations of blood
have taken over the the earth... has died
a shallow giant grave
a blood soaked skull
a terror greater than death
Tear away the skin
a skeleton exposed to be broken
in the ground, but soon to live
the maggot infested dead
awaken from their rest
to kill again
We kill again to satisfy
our hunger will always be blood
Death is now on its way, waiting to end today
sludge of the human waste, you will have died in vane
a plague has been let loose
sickness within us grows
death is now on it's way, waiting to end today
Doomsday, doomsday, doomsday
Death is now on it's way, waiting to end today
We rise up from the tomb
bloody and covered with worms
today is the day of doom
a hunger for flesh is the cure
rise up from the ground
an army ready to kill
zombified nations of blood
have taken over the the earth
Lyrics submitted by TurboTaX64_
Doomsday Lyrics as written by David Wyndorf
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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