"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.
Attention! Attention!
All citizens are ordered to report to their District detention centers!
Do not return to your homes,
Do not contact anyone!
Do not use any cellular or G-P-S devices!
Surrender all weapons at once!
Attention! This way to the camps!
I woke up in a black FEMA box
Darkness was all around me, in my coffin
My dreams are all nightmares anymore
And this is what I dream every night
The Leader of the New World Order, the President of the United States
Has declared anyone now residing inside the US of A
Without the R-F-I-D chip, you're just an illegal alien
An enemy combatant of America, welcome to the New World Order
This is the end of the road, this is the end of the line
This is the end of your life, this is the
A society in a society, inside the fence life as you know it stops
They got their rules of conduct and we got ours
Be quick or be dead, you crumble up and die, the clock is
Ticking so slowly and so much can happen in an hour
I learned my lessons the hard way, every scar I earned
I had to bleed, inside the day yard
A system of controlled movement, like a giant ant farm
Any time is long time, now you're not in charge of your time anymore
The Ex-President signed a secret bill that can
Land a legal US Citizen in jail and the
Patriot act stripped away our constitutional rights
They say a Concentration camp just popped up, yeah, right!
Refuse the chip? Ha! Get persecute and beat by the
Tyranny of Mind control, for the mark of the beast
All rights removed, you're punished, captured, and enslaved
Believe me when I say, this is the endgame!
All citizens are ordered to report to their District detention centers!
Do not return to your homes,
Do not contact anyone!
Do not use any cellular or G-P-S devices!
Surrender all weapons at once!
Attention! This way to the camps!
I woke up in a black FEMA box
Darkness was all around me, in my coffin
My dreams are all nightmares anymore
And this is what I dream every night
The Leader of the New World Order, the President of the United States
Has declared anyone now residing inside the US of A
Without the R-F-I-D chip, you're just an illegal alien
An enemy combatant of America, welcome to the New World Order
This is the end of the road, this is the end of the line
This is the end of your life, this is the
A society in a society, inside the fence life as you know it stops
They got their rules of conduct and we got ours
Be quick or be dead, you crumble up and die, the clock is
Ticking so slowly and so much can happen in an hour
I learned my lessons the hard way, every scar I earned
I had to bleed, inside the day yard
A system of controlled movement, like a giant ant farm
Any time is long time, now you're not in charge of your time anymore
The Ex-President signed a secret bill that can
Land a legal US Citizen in jail and the
Patriot act stripped away our constitutional rights
They say a Concentration camp just popped up, yeah, right!
Refuse the chip? Ha! Get persecute and beat by the
Tyranny of Mind control, for the mark of the beast
All rights removed, you're punished, captured, and enslaved
Believe me when I say, this is the endgame!
Lyrics submitted by Rusty Diamonds
Endgame Lyrics as written by Dave Mustaine
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Shredder94, "No and no"?? Really? Did you listen to the whole song, or read all of the lyrics? I'm pretty sure what Kingdrew122 and Elfie123 have said is accurate. You're partially right though, when you say this song is about Bush:
"The ex-president signed a secret bill that can Land a legal US citizen in jail and the Patriot act stripped away our constitutional rights They say a concentration camp just popped up, yeah, right!"
That part is referring to Bush, but the rest of the song refers to the protagonist's nightmares of, or life in, a New World Order. Maybe you don't know about the NWO, but the song mentions an unknown president who will bring about a New World Order. Your country is not yet a part of the NWO, not officially anyway. So this song is set in the future, not the past.
You are also partially correct to state that Bush signed "a bill into law that nowone knew about for a period of some time, and the bill aloud it to be legal for people to be placed into detention centers if they contributed to parties that bush considered terrorism". Bush passed laws that increase the ability of government agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA) to spy on and detain citizens who are considered terrorists. Other laws were passed before Bush became president which included plans for martial law and detention centers to be established in the case of emergency.
But you must also be aware that Obama has done nothing to reverse these laws, and has not even tried to get the American people their rights back. Bush may have passed the laws, but Obama is running things the same way, minus the harsh criticism that Bush faced.
I'm reminded of the famous lyrics from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again": Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss.