"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.
My Frozen Empty Violent Mind Caressed The
Hidden Hair That Shines
With Liquid Lust I Left Behind,Your Body
Stained With Ruined
Eyes, I Cut The Skin Concealed The Crimes
With Liquid Hate I
Left Inside And Lonliness Is Buries Here In
Rotting Holes
Beneath Your Fear, Your Agony Your Twisted
Struggle Two Bodies
Sink In Meat/blood Strangled.,The Smell Of
Death, Your Tortured
Gash, Enfold Me In Your Mother's Arms, Now
Hold Me In Your
Mother's Arms, Now Hold Me In Your
Mother's Arms...
Hidden Hair That Shines
With Liquid Lust I Left Behind,Your Body
Stained With Ruined
Eyes, I Cut The Skin Concealed The Crimes
With Liquid Hate I
Left Inside And Lonliness Is Buries Here In
Rotting Holes
Beneath Your Fear, Your Agony Your Twisted
Struggle Two Bodies
Sink In Meat/blood Strangled.,The Smell Of
Death, Your Tortured
Gash, Enfold Me In Your Mother's Arms, Now
Hold Me In Your
Mother's Arms, Now Hold Me In Your
Mother's Arms...
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@Glome Sounds like an abortion to me also. Maybe after a rape?<br /> <br /> Talking about a "violent mind", references to "liquid lust" and "liquid hate" could be the semen. Mentions loneliness buried beneath fear, talks about "concealing the crime". Getting an abortion after a rape could be seen as an attempt to conceal what happened.