"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.
All gods die
All gods speak
All gods lie
All gods forever wallow in slime
All gods before me, swallowed by time
I am trapped in eternal time
I am the lost god
Nothing is mine
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god
I blow a black wad
The mold is flawed
The womb is clawed
Hanging by my teeth
From a scrap of flesh I gnawed
I am trapped, spinning in time
I am the lost god, nothing is mine.
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god, I am the lost god
My vision becomes clouded
And blacker, bleaker still
I become a piece of stone, heavy for the kill
I made you once but slay you now
Bleating, bulbous, bloated cow
Your continuance I can't allow
DIE!
They gorge on swill
Cum-sucking priests who can't get their fill
It's gone beyond hatred this time
You think that money can pay for your crimes
I am trapped in eternal time
I am the lost god, nothing is mine
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god, I am nothing at all
Jubelo, Shub-Niggarath
Aegir, and Thor
Vishnu and Kali
The god as a whore
Malagbel and Mercury
Who cares anymore?
Ku, the creator, architect of war
Zoroaster and Jupiter
Yaweh and Kong
All gods are bloody and all gods are wrong
They crave your abeyance but give only pain
I've killed all the lost gods, only--only I remain
All gods speak
All gods lie
All gods forever wallow in slime
All gods before me, swallowed by time
I am trapped in eternal time
I am the lost god
Nothing is mine
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god
I blow a black wad
The mold is flawed
The womb is clawed
Hanging by my teeth
From a scrap of flesh I gnawed
I am trapped, spinning in time
I am the lost god, nothing is mine.
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god, I am the lost god
My vision becomes clouded
And blacker, bleaker still
I become a piece of stone, heavy for the kill
I made you once but slay you now
Bleating, bulbous, bloated cow
Your continuance I can't allow
DIE!
They gorge on swill
Cum-sucking priests who can't get their fill
It's gone beyond hatred this time
You think that money can pay for your crimes
I am trapped in eternal time
I am the lost god, nothing is mine
All those before me were swallowed by time
I am the lost god, I am nothing at all
Jubelo, Shub-Niggarath
Aegir, and Thor
Vishnu and Kali
The god as a whore
Malagbel and Mercury
Who cares anymore?
Ku, the creator, architect of war
Zoroaster and Jupiter
Yaweh and Kong
All gods are bloody and all gods are wrong
They crave your abeyance but give only pain
I've killed all the lost gods, only--only I remain
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