"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.
Falling from the sky, they're cast out from the heaven's light
Drenching the soil with blood, baptized in the fire hole
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
Call upon it's father, bless the goat, the womanizer
Take him to Astaroth, Inanna's temple of Uruk
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
They gathered all the children outside the church
And never would they know what went on in there
Close the door and hear all the angels scream
"Oh mercy, mercy, mercy, oh mercy, please"
Down, down, down
Down below you can hear his hoof digging through the ground
Oh lord, lord, lord
The horned one is back and he wants his crown
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
Drenching the soil with blood, baptized in the fire hole
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
Call upon it's father, bless the goat, the womanizer
Take him to Astaroth, Inanna's temple of Uruk
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
They gathered all the children outside the church
And never would they know what went on in there
Close the door and hear all the angels scream
"Oh mercy, mercy, mercy, oh mercy, please"
Down, down, down
Down below you can hear his hoof digging through the ground
Oh lord, lord, lord
The horned one is back and he wants his crown
The devil's spawn no longer breathes
Descending angels and fallen kings
Raise your hands, what do you hold?
The devil's bleeding crown
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The Devil's Bleeding Crown Lyrics as written by Michael Poulsen
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►My take is god cast down satan and the men of the earth picked up his crown either in victory or to take his place
►It's much easier to pick up the devils bleeding crown than it is to show faith in GOD.
►I believe it's stating how they (angels now devil and his legion) were cast out of heaven and sent to hell but letting you know that the devil is here and wants to rule. The bleeding crown part I feel is there because Jesus was crucified with a crown of thorns on his head.
►I think it is about the nephilim, children of angels and mortal women. The nephilim were consider kings who required sacrifices. God wiped them out with a flood. The angels were cast out of heaven.
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...and that anyone can pick up that bloody crown at any time where the crown represents, essentially, the choice between good (Jesus bloody crown) and evil ("The Devil's Bleeding Crown").
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"The Devil's spawn no longer breathes Descending angels and fallen kings"
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