"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.
Sky sky cam what's seen before you
Contrived tracking systems live
Last name laden is soaked in sodom
We tried our best now test these organs
Lonesome kittens walk in circles
Milky substance rains from eyes
Hocus pocus not precocious
We're lightly tapping heavens forehead
Bomb the building bang bin laden
Building the bombs bam bomb building
Oh little reindeer soaked in semen
Caca's burning under thunder
Slightly sopping sucking whirlwind
Yer family's tightly flapping curtain
Sky sky cam what's seen before u contrived tracking system lies
Last name laden is soaked in sodom
We tried our best now testis organ..building big bomb building the bombs building bombs
Verse 2
The human race is an invention of the west foreign every other land
The swine walk around as man and the sheep can't know that they sleep...
My evil the man before u is not a man but a dog I've extinguished the flames with hot piss so I ask
Is that all there is to a fire
Freedom!
Gonna get em, we got em, we gotta
X 10
No time for your burning bras or talk of mass deception
Pull your guns let terrorism stir up your aggression
Gonna get em we got em, we gonna..x 4, x10
Stand up for your right to talk about US domination
Crawl into the trenches and join the real worlds form of conversation
Gonna get em we got em we gotta x8
No time for your burning bras or talk of mass deception
Pull your guns let terrorism stir up your aggressions yeah....
We're gonna be wiped out!
Wind me up with evil so I can fight fire with fire
Contrived tracking systems live
Last name laden is soaked in sodom
We tried our best now test these organs
Lonesome kittens walk in circles
Milky substance rains from eyes
Hocus pocus not precocious
We're lightly tapping heavens forehead
Bomb the building bang bin laden
Building the bombs bam bomb building
Oh little reindeer soaked in semen
Caca's burning under thunder
Slightly sopping sucking whirlwind
Yer family's tightly flapping curtain
Sky sky cam what's seen before u contrived tracking system lies
Last name laden is soaked in sodom
We tried our best now testis organ..building big bomb building the bombs building bombs
Verse 2
The human race is an invention of the west foreign every other land
The swine walk around as man and the sheep can't know that they sleep...
My evil the man before u is not a man but a dog I've extinguished the flames with hot piss so I ask
Is that all there is to a fire
Freedom!
Gonna get em, we got em, we gotta
X 10
No time for your burning bras or talk of mass deception
Pull your guns let terrorism stir up your aggression
Gonna get em we got em, we gonna..x 4, x10
Stand up for your right to talk about US domination
Crawl into the trenches and join the real worlds form of conversation
Gonna get em we got em we gotta x8
No time for your burning bras or talk of mass deception
Pull your guns let terrorism stir up your aggressions yeah....
We're gonna be wiped out!
Wind me up with evil so I can fight fire with fire
Lyrics submitted by jj_jac555
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