"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 dominate but feel the pain
From bullets my carnales take
Out of state soldiers join us
To form a conglomerate
It's out of hate oppressed revolt
From feeling that they gotta take
All the weight so we go to war
To find another way
Intercept opposite forces
Entering our sick vicinity
It's killing me how wars that make no sense
Last an infinity
It's silly shit how a city gets
Mentally unfit
But really it gets worse when buildings
Set the scene for murders script
I know you heard of this crisis
And what the price is
High stress amplifies the need
For all your vices
But steer clear cause we're here
In fear they're
Taking over everything
And so we fight the war years
Fierce weapons speak for each side
Through open forum skies
Some die when bullets pierce the skin
Exploding inside
We provide a dream for our team
Look past the war scene
Dethrone the king gain control reign supreme
Aim high for your street regime
Look for unseen enemies hiding
In the smoke screen
The town I live in got daily death
So we're numb to feeling
Blood spilling got
My whole block concealing
If cops come frisking we're felony risking
Catch 22 system either way you fall victim
The stage is set up the script is written
So we get wet up
Now think about who dies
When we let the lead out
We're killing family tragically
The enemy dividing those fighting against it Weakening our infantry
We caught on to your big plan
Separate us into street gangs
Infiltrate the sets put some battles in effect
To distract from your dirty outfit, yeah
We rock the block that you got locked
Caught in a battle with crooked-ass cops
Heat we feel on crazy
Gang infested la streets
We see the red concrete stains
And street platoons feel pain
Real soon times will change
And you will see the truth that we claim
Aim your sickness this way
In sick games we reign insane
There's only one way to explain
And now you lay to die with broke frames
Enemies of the state take center stage
And watch the rules we violate
Now we recall and fall
For all sins of life and break the law
There's many us dangerous
Plenty of you want war we fight any
We walk the paths all lost
And bring LA P.D holocaust
Anybody gets rocked the truth
First your ass gets rocked and then shot
We see through the plot
City street teams get broke down and then got
Rot in ditches dug
To get filled up with government bitches
We see the police
And train to kill the brain
Of the all terrain beast
Work done by street families
Make us and the state enemies
From bullets my carnales take
Out of state soldiers join us
To form a conglomerate
It's out of hate oppressed revolt
From feeling that they gotta take
All the weight so we go to war
To find another way
Intercept opposite forces
Entering our sick vicinity
It's killing me how wars that make no sense
Last an infinity
It's silly shit how a city gets
Mentally unfit
But really it gets worse when buildings
Set the scene for murders script
I know you heard of this crisis
And what the price is
High stress amplifies the need
For all your vices
But steer clear cause we're here
In fear they're
Taking over everything
And so we fight the war years
Fierce weapons speak for each side
Through open forum skies
Some die when bullets pierce the skin
Exploding inside
We provide a dream for our team
Look past the war scene
Dethrone the king gain control reign supreme
Aim high for your street regime
Look for unseen enemies hiding
In the smoke screen
The town I live in got daily death
So we're numb to feeling
Blood spilling got
My whole block concealing
If cops come frisking we're felony risking
Catch 22 system either way you fall victim
The stage is set up the script is written
So we get wet up
Now think about who dies
When we let the lead out
We're killing family tragically
The enemy dividing those fighting against it Weakening our infantry
We caught on to your big plan
Separate us into street gangs
Infiltrate the sets put some battles in effect
To distract from your dirty outfit, yeah
We rock the block that you got locked
Caught in a battle with crooked-ass cops
Heat we feel on crazy
Gang infested la streets
We see the red concrete stains
And street platoons feel pain
Real soon times will change
And you will see the truth that we claim
Aim your sickness this way
In sick games we reign insane
There's only one way to explain
And now you lay to die with broke frames
Enemies of the state take center stage
And watch the rules we violate
Now we recall and fall
For all sins of life and break the law
There's many us dangerous
Plenty of you want war we fight any
We walk the paths all lost
And bring LA P.D holocaust
Anybody gets rocked the truth
First your ass gets rocked and then shot
We see through the plot
City street teams get broke down and then got
Rot in ditches dug
To get filled up with government bitches
We see the police
And train to kill the brain
Of the all terrain beast
Work done by street families
Make us and the state enemies
Lyrics submitted by ACEofLONELYHEARTS
Enemy of the State Lyrics as written by Jack Gonzalez Gustavo Gonzalez
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