"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.
I live, I stalk, I hunt, I eat,
With indifference for all.
I walk, I kill, I sleep, I breathe,
Slowly taking control.
The sickest part of our species,
Ravenous to evolve.
We spread like a fucking disease,
No vaccine protocol.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave nothing else behind.
I don't feel anything at all,
As rats gnaw on my bones.
I'm not made of the same things at all,
A mechanical heart.
The sickest part of our species,
Ravenous to evolve.
We spread like a fucking disease,
No vaccine protocol.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave nothing else behind.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
With indifference for all.
I walk, I kill, I sleep, I breathe,
Slowly taking control.
The sickest part of our species,
Ravenous to evolve.
We spread like a fucking disease,
No vaccine protocol.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave nothing else behind.
I don't feel anything at all,
As rats gnaw on my bones.
I'm not made of the same things at all,
A mechanical heart.
The sickest part of our species,
Ravenous to evolve.
We spread like a fucking disease,
No vaccine protocol.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave nothing else behind.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
You cannot stop what never ends.
And at the end of days,
This will be our legacy we
Kill! Kill! Multiply!
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
Take! Take! Take our time,
We leave no one else behind.
Kill! Kill! Here tonight,
Till the skies are black and the rivers dry.
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the guy got the name of the song wrong its not "stop! before we've destroyed it all and theres no", the real name of the song is "Stop! Before its too late" so im just clearing that up.