"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.
A justice court constituted to extirpate
All diverging interpretation ways of scriptures
From the orthodox line
The linen shroud tor second messiah
To impress the crucifixion meaning
On a cold October morning in the year of the lord 1307
Accusations carried damnation to walls of Paris temple
The king was plotting with joy the Templar order to destroy
Balancing national debt with confiscating act
Prepared were instruments
For every fault confession
So guillaume lmbert
With pleasure of whiplash torn
Naked master skin
And nailed his wrists to a door
As Christ before...
So once again upon the passion of lord
According with traditional word
A torture velvet chamber
To dress the sindon gown
The humours of wounds flowed
Coagulating blood
Royal secret and sublime avenge
Ultimate portrait obscene
Of what does mercy teach
Persecution of each sin
An image fixed by hate
The matrix of heretic last icon
His spattered shroud consecrating
As relic of pain
A cross with two "j"
Jesus Nazarene and Jacques de molay
Missing ring among that days
And six centuries
Of prayers and deceit
The same name of Christ brother, James
An inquiry commission instituted to examinate
The case of templar master named:
Jacques de molay
So began the process of canonization in black
The sound of hammer judge
As three bell tolls to light
Even though were set the pyres...
Inquisition condemnation erasing or assimilation
This is consecration of sindon sophisticated
But now mystery of twentysecond rank is disclosed
The attribution to a different identity arid the avenge
Is sevenfold fulfilled
All diverging interpretation ways of scriptures
From the orthodox line
The linen shroud tor second messiah
To impress the crucifixion meaning
On a cold October morning in the year of the lord 1307
Accusations carried damnation to walls of Paris temple
The king was plotting with joy the Templar order to destroy
Balancing national debt with confiscating act
Prepared were instruments
For every fault confession
So guillaume lmbert
With pleasure of whiplash torn
Naked master skin
And nailed his wrists to a door
As Christ before...
So once again upon the passion of lord
According with traditional word
A torture velvet chamber
To dress the sindon gown
The humours of wounds flowed
Coagulating blood
Royal secret and sublime avenge
Ultimate portrait obscene
Of what does mercy teach
Persecution of each sin
An image fixed by hate
The matrix of heretic last icon
His spattered shroud consecrating
As relic of pain
A cross with two "j"
Jesus Nazarene and Jacques de molay
Missing ring among that days
And six centuries
Of prayers and deceit
The same name of Christ brother, James
An inquiry commission instituted to examinate
The case of templar master named:
Jacques de molay
So began the process of canonization in black
The sound of hammer judge
As three bell tolls to light
Even though were set the pyres...
Inquisition condemnation erasing or assimilation
This is consecration of sindon sophisticated
But now mystery of twentysecond rank is disclosed
The attribution to a different identity arid the avenge
Is sevenfold fulfilled
Lyrics submitted by Eudaemon
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