"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.
Paralyzing atrophy locked in her web of mimicry
Suspended inverted waiting to die
Dexterous segmented limbs
Fangs to sink within your skin
They seek to find vacancy
With your withered heart
She lives for the hunt man
And you are the kill
Now feel that venom spread
It hardening your arteries
Ensnared soon to be dead
A shadow of your former
A mere shell of a man
Degenerated tortured hallowed
And spit into the earth again
To terminally lust for
To love one's self to death
Regret the day you heard the tune
That trapped you in the sirens nest
Enchanting the flower of disease
Beware her silken surprise
She'll throttle you down to your knees
She'll suck you dry
Lost inside her eyes of thousand
The deadly kiss of a mistress venomous
Soulless you fell before her
Quenching her ravenous thirst
Strip mining your essence
She'll turn your universe to black
Emasculating glutton for perverse punishment
Lecherous and deviant perfume to mask her scent
To the naked eye immaculate to her victim poisonous
She'll wrap you up so tight she'll suffocate without relent
Enchanting the flower of disease
Beware her silken surprise
She'll throttle you down to your knees
She'll suck you dry
Suspended inverted waiting to die
Dexterous segmented limbs
Fangs to sink within your skin
They seek to find vacancy
With your withered heart
She lives for the hunt man
And you are the kill
Now feel that venom spread
It hardening your arteries
Ensnared soon to be dead
A shadow of your former
A mere shell of a man
Degenerated tortured hallowed
And spit into the earth again
To terminally lust for
To love one's self to death
Regret the day you heard the tune
That trapped you in the sirens nest
Enchanting the flower of disease
Beware her silken surprise
She'll throttle you down to your knees
She'll suck you dry
Lost inside her eyes of thousand
The deadly kiss of a mistress venomous
Soulless you fell before her
Quenching her ravenous thirst
Strip mining your essence
She'll turn your universe to black
Emasculating glutton for perverse punishment
Lecherous and deviant perfume to mask her scent
To the naked eye immaculate to her victim poisonous
She'll wrap you up so tight she'll suffocate without relent
Enchanting the flower of disease
Beware her silken surprise
She'll throttle you down to your knees
She'll suck you dry
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21
Eyes of Thousand Lyrics as written by Ryan Knight Brian Eschbach
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