"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.
you think you're evil but you're not
still sucking life from the mainstream
it's so deluded give it up
what's that you hide behind your pile of shit
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
find out exactly what is meant
to be abducted in between
another moment documents
the fading magic of what could have been
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
{RANT}
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
still sucking life from the mainstream
it's so deluded give it up
what's that you hide behind your pile of shit
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
find out exactly what is meant
to be abducted in between
another moment documents
the fading magic of what could have been
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
{RANT}
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
could it be i have given up
feeling blind to all important scenes
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
it's so deluded give it up
it's unoriginal
Lyrics submitted by jt
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i recently watched an interview with ogre and the video director ( who is also the guitarist of OhGr) and he said the NIN reference was a joke, just poking a little fun at Reznor, nothing personal. Its up on youtube.
au.youtube.com/watch
so dont worry you fussy shitheads, you can all rest easy
it's explaining what punk turned into these days,lol
this song is about SELLING OUT.... something that skinny puppy NEVER did.... and i'm sure OHGR won't sell out either. this song is a frustrated statement of the lameness of selling out.
this video is great it takes shots at Emiem and NIN
this reason the person who posted the lyrics didnt put up the 'rant' part is because they got it off the official ohgr site and it says {rant} there
I understand part of the rant hes sayin DONT TOUCH MY PROPERTY OR RAPE MY BITCH U RAPED MY PROPERTY IM SITTIN IN A DITCH I WAKE UP AND I FEEL LIKE SHIT ITS ALRIGHT ITS ALRIGHT
Great song. Speaks the truth. These days, all these bands that have the potential to put out talented music mess it all up by trying to live up to a really pathetic image.
Discernible part of rant:
I'm sitting on the back porch so you can make my topic nothing. It's all relevant. What? You want a seat on the back of my porch to talk and wave a gun, come touch my property, rape my bitch, rape my property as if you made a hitch. I wake up and I feel like shit. It's all right, it's all right.
D'oh, I kinda wish the guy who put the lyrics up here put the rap part in. I can only understand about half of it.
Anyway, I love this song.
plus, the 'rant' part is largely unintelligible. if you figure it out let me know!