"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.
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
Feeling trapped in with the slimy creatures, now close to being killed
She soon revealed her forgotten sad past, first to herself
They smelled her flesh, ready to be devoured, but something happened
They moved away, seeming to be frightened, sparing her life
Shocked again, she opened the gates of her tragic past, and bloody images came back to her mind
She remembered the old mission, the dark comet's goal beyond the suns
The flight through that black hole
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
She lived again in some frames of sorrow, that evil journey
Planned by the Arias' exploring section to find new worlds
But all that they found beyond their system was the black portal
Depths of oblivion came back to their world, once opened it
Arkan and the other warriors who observed the
scene could not feel the same way now about that girl
He moved to her, taking her hand, running away fast from his old friends
All for her, he loved her
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
Feeling trapped in with the slimy creatures, now close to being killed
She soon revealed her forgotten sad past, first to herself
They smelled her flesh, ready to be devoured, but something happened
They moved away, seeming to be frightened, sparing her life
Shocked again, she opened the gates of her tragic past, and bloody images came back to her mind
She remembered the old mission, the dark comet's goal beyond the suns
The flight through that black hole
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
She lived again in some frames of sorrow, that evil journey
Planned by the Arias' exploring section to find new worlds
But all that they found beyond their system was the black portal
Depths of oblivion came back to their world, once opened it
Arkan and the other warriors who observed the
scene could not feel the same way now about that girl
He moved to her, taking her hand, running away fast from his old friends
All for her, he loved her
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
Confutatis maledictis
Confutatis maledictis
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Tragedy storms him when demons spare her life
And all discover she has a demonheart
Demonheart!
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Demonheart Lyrics as written by Luca Turilli
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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