"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.
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
You wanna hear my side?
You need to drown to know.
When all the times it hurt me to fuck you,
I built a wall with your blood to show!
God save us!
God save us all!
God hates us!
God hates us all!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Nothing to heal.
No one to break.
Pills had a role now
There's nothing to take.
Nothing to trust.
No one to fake.
You'll find out sooner
That it's best if we just know our place
(Lies!)
My infiltrated mind.
My lacerated soul.
You took me years
Create me control you.
Why let myself around with you aside?
God save us!
God save us all!
God hates us!
God hates us all!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Lie, rape, kill
Love, hate, fear
You better take your time
(Lie, rape, kill)
You better take it slow
Cause when you see the one
(Love, hate, fear)
There's nothing left to show.
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
You wanna hear my side?
You need to drown to know.
When all the times it hurt me to fuck you,
I built a wall with your blood to show!
God save us!
God save us all!
God hates us!
God hates us all!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Nothing to heal.
No one to break.
Pills had a role now
There's nothing to take.
Nothing to trust.
No one to fake.
You'll find out sooner
That it's best if we just know our place
(Lies!)
My infiltrated mind.
My lacerated soul.
You took me years
Create me control you.
Why let myself around with you aside?
God save us!
God save us all!
God hates us!
God hates us all!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Lie, rape, kill
Love, hate, fear
You better take your time
(Lie, rape, kill)
You better take it slow
Cause when you see the one
(Love, hate, fear)
There's nothing left to show.
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Total nightmare!
Lyrics submitted by Synister71
God Hates Us Lyrics as written by James Sullivan Brian Haner
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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In my view the song is directed towards today's "collateral damage" of common religion and faith. Each one will say almost anything to build its god up whether it be through hope or fear. When a person deals with a loss like the members of avenged did at some point your mind will cross the line of save him and save me "God Save Us" but then whether it be before or after you will also have the thought of if this god i believe in loves everyone how it do something like this "God Hates Us". Its a contradicting thought everyone will experience at least once if not multiple times in their life. The penetrating lyrics of "Lie, Rape, Kill" and "Love, Hate, Fear" tell me that to make your god seem better than another the hierarchy members of that specific religion will do whatever it takes to make a profit or to have more power than the other. They will lie to us telling us things that will supposively set us free in the end when they themselves can not be 100% sure of what is to come. Rape is one of the lower sins you can committ yet there are reports of child molestation by the very people that preach to us as a society. To kill one self or another is also a terrible sin and correct me if im wrong but in the catholic religion that the divine comedy "Dante's Inferno" references in the 9 levels of hell is at level 8 yet they have forged religious wars countless times throughout history killing for no need but to get as many followers as possible for their own enrichment no matter the cost, although i will say catholicism is definitely not the only religion to do so. Marriage is suppose to be sacred yet the divorce rate is higher now than ever and other religions believe in more than one wife which one is right? We are led to hate a certain group because of their beliefs when they do not meet ours yet we are told to love everyone. And lastly we may be able to believe in one religion but there is a fear of the unkown. So to sum it up the lyrics in this song to me give the story of someone wanting to believe and be righteous yet has so much fear and hate because of what history has taught them than even though the fear of say hell crosses their mind they would rather go there than to follow a god that has no sympathy for the ones he supposively loves.
Wow, ive never seen so much ignorange from a supposed grown man. GOD put us on this earth for only 70 years (more or less) at a time. Our lives could be much longer and more painful. Do you guys even know what this life is in comparison to the next? This life is but a mere grain of sand, compared to eternity which is the entire universe! And think about this; the picture was painted by a man, the pot was crafted by a man, Earth, Life, Hope, Joy, Love were all created by a creator. Can you honestly be so blind? Why would you fuck up this life, when its the next that matters. Yet sadly, i'd say i must agree on the song meaning. Its just a shame that they would take their anger out on GOD when it was an intentional lethal drug combo. He decided to leave, and its because he's smart enough to know there's an afterlife. So anyone who doesn't believe in GOD hear this; Do you believe in good and evil? There are leaders in both. Without GOD, there would be no good or evil, or much less anything. And seriously? GOD doesn't love us? Only 2000 years ago it was that he sent his only son to die for us so we don't have to burn forever. A day is as 1000 years to the Father, and 1000 years, a day. Also, he is an unchanging GOD. So if you must be too ignorant or prideful to ask for GOD to do something in your life to show that he cares in the 70-so years we are here. Then you can just spend time torn and broken in hell thinking about how much you wish you could go back and change everything.
This guy above me is 100% right. :D
This guy above me is 100% right. :D
Please refer to the Book of Job: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job.<br /> <br /> This song may have been exactly how Job felt. <br /> <br /> Job: biblegateway.com/passage/<br /> <br />
@freakball420 the people that came up with the concept of god and jesus also thought the earth was flat.