"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.
Can't you see, it's not only me
That feels we're linked to the seas
Make your way to a massive grave
If you can't fight for each day
Torrential rain at the helm of death
It drowns the weak, battering the rest
Black walls of waves pummel to capsize
The roaring thunder overshadows our cries
[Chorus 1]
Spires of lightning thrown down from the gods
Melting skin even in the deluge
The mast is broken (The mast is broken)
Hull is splitting (Hull is splitting)
Dear god the fucking ship is sinking
I will try to pour all of myself into this life
Before I die
Such turmoil, let's make the blood boil
Make your time count or rot as the soil
Life is hard, a fucking battle
The time is now and here's your drum roll
Torrential rain at the helm of death
It drowns the weak, battering the rest
Black walls of waves pummel to capsize
The roaring thunder overshadows our cries
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
I will try to pour all of myself into this life
Before I die
If I go before my time
Then take these words evermore into your life
We crawl out from the wreckage
Fingers dig into the sands (of the shores)
Everything we worked for
Is ripped apart and ruined, drowned
Deep beneath our dying world
The earth begins to open up
Into the mouth of hell we march
Into the mouth of hell
Into the mouth of hell
We march
Into the mouth of hell we march
Into the mouth of hell
Into the mouth of hell
We march
Now you see, for it is we
Who walk the fire and breathe
Make our way out of the grave
And lick the blood from our blades
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2: x2]
That feels we're linked to the seas
Make your way to a massive grave
If you can't fight for each day
Torrential rain at the helm of death
It drowns the weak, battering the rest
Black walls of waves pummel to capsize
The roaring thunder overshadows our cries
[Chorus 1]
Spires of lightning thrown down from the gods
Melting skin even in the deluge
The mast is broken (The mast is broken)
Hull is splitting (Hull is splitting)
Dear god the fucking ship is sinking
I will try to pour all of myself into this life
Before I die
Such turmoil, let's make the blood boil
Make your time count or rot as the soil
Life is hard, a fucking battle
The time is now and here's your drum roll
Torrential rain at the helm of death
It drowns the weak, battering the rest
Black walls of waves pummel to capsize
The roaring thunder overshadows our cries
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
I will try to pour all of myself into this life
Before I die
If I go before my time
Then take these words evermore into your life
We crawl out from the wreckage
Fingers dig into the sands (of the shores)
Everything we worked for
Is ripped apart and ruined, drowned
Deep beneath our dying world
The earth begins to open up
Into the mouth of hell we march
Into the mouth of hell
Into the mouth of hell
We march
Into the mouth of hell we march
Into the mouth of hell
Into the mouth of hell
We march
Now you see, for it is we
Who walk the fire and breathe
Make our way out of the grave
And lick the blood from our blades
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2: x2]
Lyrics submitted by Sonic Raider
Into the Mouth of Hell We March Lyrics as written by Matthew Heafy Corey Beaulieu
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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