"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.
This is the long drop method it was supposed to be more humane
Measure your height and your weight to break your neck with your hand
Sometimes they use a shore drop or they use a crane
Either way the victim dies in agonizing pain
But if the calculations ain't correct when the rope's set
The rope will rip the head right off the motherfucker's neck
My appointment at the gallows x emerging from the shadows
With a vendetta beetle who wanna battle
Man you gon' get whipped in flaw shackle to an A-frame
Beaten full force until you can't repeat your own name
Till you smell the smell of burn and flesh
Keep you alive until you pray for death
Drawn in the corner disembowel until there's nothing left
Saudi Arabia amputation for petty death
Li chin translated this the leader in death
A rubber tie filled with gas around your arms and chest
Set you on fire turn your body to a melted mess
Ask the AT about the south African necklace
Go ahead and pick your poison it was coming to you
Call me the prison bull I came to fucking kill you
Have must I come through merciless
Be quick with that bullshit you heard of
Uncut mole what have we ride through
And always remember that death will come off swift wings
Anyone who run contested now know have we now picked you whatever
I came to peel
Hands behind your back shackled then I forced you to kneel
Shoot you in the back of the head send your family the bill
For what the bullets cost I'm on my China shit
Eye for an eye waterboard you like my government
Impaled and left at the front gates
Used to hear the sound of broken arms rib and leg makes
Whipping and pull apart call it the breaking wheel
By inquisition espanish mi corazon is free
No compassion don't expect it when I fucking see you
Lethal injections is my profession loading up my needles
My iron maiden the Caucasian the Asian
The information received by the ancient art of persuasion
I'm 'bout to drop like a guillotine
The cut is quick and clean I promise you won't feel a thing
I'll never kiss the ring
I rather storm the castle kill the king then set fire to fucking everything
Have must I come through merciless
Be quick with that bullshit you heard of
Uncut mole what have we ride through
And always remember that death will come off swift wings
Anyone who run contested now know have we now picked you whatever
I came to peel
Measure your height and your weight to break your neck with your hand
Sometimes they use a shore drop or they use a crane
Either way the victim dies in agonizing pain
But if the calculations ain't correct when the rope's set
The rope will rip the head right off the motherfucker's neck
My appointment at the gallows x emerging from the shadows
With a vendetta beetle who wanna battle
Man you gon' get whipped in flaw shackle to an A-frame
Beaten full force until you can't repeat your own name
Till you smell the smell of burn and flesh
Keep you alive until you pray for death
Drawn in the corner disembowel until there's nothing left
Saudi Arabia amputation for petty death
Li chin translated this the leader in death
A rubber tie filled with gas around your arms and chest
Set you on fire turn your body to a melted mess
Ask the AT about the south African necklace
Go ahead and pick your poison it was coming to you
Call me the prison bull I came to fucking kill you
Have must I come through merciless
Be quick with that bullshit you heard of
Uncut mole what have we ride through
And always remember that death will come off swift wings
Anyone who run contested now know have we now picked you whatever
I came to peel
Hands behind your back shackled then I forced you to kneel
Shoot you in the back of the head send your family the bill
For what the bullets cost I'm on my China shit
Eye for an eye waterboard you like my government
Impaled and left at the front gates
Used to hear the sound of broken arms rib and leg makes
Whipping and pull apart call it the breaking wheel
By inquisition espanish mi corazon is free
No compassion don't expect it when I fucking see you
Lethal injections is my profession loading up my needles
My iron maiden the Caucasian the Asian
The information received by the ancient art of persuasion
I'm 'bout to drop like a guillotine
The cut is quick and clean I promise you won't feel a thing
I'll never kiss the ring
I rather storm the castle kill the king then set fire to fucking everything
Have must I come through merciless
Be quick with that bullshit you heard of
Uncut mole what have we ride through
And always remember that death will come off swift wings
Anyone who run contested now know have we now picked you whatever
I came to peel
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I Came to Kill Lyrics as written by R Jr Ibanga Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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