"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.
Fire surround, in cleansing repose
Letting the filth, like venom it flows
Scar, the mark, remind us the pain
Breaking the bones that will reach out again
And now we will rise to conquer them all
Many will challenge, many will fall
Bring us your vile, malicious of mind
We will bring their neck to the line
Scum of the earth
Power of air
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
And though you will fight, you will not return
For when in the fields, your temples we burned
And scattered the ash upon every grave
To honor the ones that you have betrayed
Scum of the earth
Power of air
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
[Repeat: x2]
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
[Repeat: x2]
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
Whose side are you on?
Letting the filth, like venom it flows
Scar, the mark, remind us the pain
Breaking the bones that will reach out again
And now we will rise to conquer them all
Many will challenge, many will fall
Bring us your vile, malicious of mind
We will bring their neck to the line
Scum of the earth
Power of air
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
And though you will fight, you will not return
For when in the fields, your temples we burned
And scattered the ash upon every grave
To honor the ones that you have betrayed
Scum of the earth
Power of air
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
[Repeat: x2]
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
You wanted the world
We'll bury you there
[Repeat: x2]
This is a battle
We are the blade
And this is the line, this is the line
All that they build we will break
This is the line
Whose side are you on?
Lyrics submitted by SouthernPunk777
This Is the Line Lyrics as written by Ryan Clark
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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