"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.
Believe in no one!
Hallelujah, well I'm saved
Just a dozen steps and 28 days
It's a miracle, I'll be born again
With the Lord as my Shepard
I will find a way
Fuck your faith.
No one's gonna save you.
Fuck your faith.
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
The crooked young
We don't sleep, we don't eat
We speak in tongues
We can't die, we're dead inside
No death can touch the crooked young
Believe in no one!
But yourself!
The faceless won't save you
The clouds won't hear your fucking prayers.
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
Hallelujah, I'm saved
It's a miracle, thank you Jesus
Hallelujah, I'm saved
Fuck your faith.
Fuck your faith.
Hallelujah, well I'm saved
Just a dozen steps and 28 days
It's a miracle, I'll be born again
With the Lord as my Shepard
I will find a way
Fuck your faith.
No one's gonna save you.
Fuck your faith.
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
The crooked young
We don't sleep, we don't eat
We speak in tongues
We can't die, we're dead inside
No death can touch the crooked young
Believe in no one!
But yourself!
The faceless won't save you
The clouds won't hear your fucking prayers.
There's no hope for us
We speak in tongues, blacker than the sun
No death can touch the crooked young
Hallelujah, I'm saved
It's a miracle, thank you Jesus
Hallelujah, I'm saved
Fuck your faith.
Fuck your faith.
Lyrics submitted by shadyyy, edited by DMorley, DASHONFIRE, Chargermas, darkforce100, chillydog, AdamArtz
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