"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.
this red lease on device atomic angels watching us
Baptismal radiation blessed be the crippled and the scarred
Look deep in the mushroom can you see the crucifix
The son of God is going home look deep into the light
Praise the Lord and turn to dust, you are but human stain
That wipes away unholyness, only purity remains
Remains
This is a holy place reactor number 4
Hell is always watching me through the cracks up in the floor
Holyness is leaking through into the world of sin
A tiny touch of holyness can eat away wolf skin
i'll release the device atomic angels watching us
Baptismal radiation blessed be the infected and the scarred
You burnt me oh lord
You set me on fire with this truth of god
Let there be hellfire if we cross these fields of sin
Oh lord take me home take me home
End of your blessings
End of your blessings
The end of your blessings
The lord this is now over
The lord this is over
Amen brother
The cold king of the serpant prevails
He who walks on blades of grass sharp as feeding talons
Below the light expands the kingdom of a million wasps
Silent turmoil change seperate freedom and demons of the night
Cast below the demon into the kingdom hell
I want to be there I'm hungry for the souls of legions
Wandering among the capital of doubt
Praise the lord
Praise the lord
Baptismal radiation blessed be the crippled and the scarred
Look deep in the mushroom can you see the crucifix
The son of God is going home look deep into the light
Praise the Lord and turn to dust, you are but human stain
That wipes away unholyness, only purity remains
Remains
This is a holy place reactor number 4
Hell is always watching me through the cracks up in the floor
Holyness is leaking through into the world of sin
A tiny touch of holyness can eat away wolf skin
i'll release the device atomic angels watching us
Baptismal radiation blessed be the infected and the scarred
You burnt me oh lord
You set me on fire with this truth of god
Let there be hellfire if we cross these fields of sin
Oh lord take me home take me home
End of your blessings
End of your blessings
The end of your blessings
The lord this is now over
The lord this is over
Amen brother
The cold king of the serpant prevails
He who walks on blades of grass sharp as feeding talons
Below the light expands the kingdom of a million wasps
Silent turmoil change seperate freedom and demons of the night
Cast below the demon into the kingdom hell
I want to be there I'm hungry for the souls of legions
Wandering among the capital of doubt
Praise the lord
Praise the lord
Lyrics submitted by ack0m3ga
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