"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.
Lick off the shot my stories shock ya like
Ellison
Main line adrenaline Gaza to Tienanmen
From the basement I'm dwellin' in
I cook back the sling
To stone a settler and breaks him off clean
Call me the upsetter
Here come the hands on the leashes
The cross, the capital, tha pale families, the
Fear and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch
The cell dors crash
And the master's drums echo
Roll right
Roll call
Now we're alright
We're all calm
This hits like fists
Bomb with the left and don't miss
With the sickest stilo I spark fear in the pigs
In the park
Head crack, I hijack the papars and the vapors
Caught fire up in you mind
Come back, rewind one time
Here come the hands on the leashes
The cross, the capital, the pale families, the
Fear and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch
The cell doors crash
And the master's drums echo
Roll right
Roll call
Now we're alright
We're all calm
Send him to the seventh level
For their lives and my lies
Were never settled
Ellison
Main line adrenaline Gaza to Tienanmen
From the basement I'm dwellin' in
I cook back the sling
To stone a settler and breaks him off clean
Call me the upsetter
Here come the hands on the leashes
The cross, the capital, tha pale families, the
Fear and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch
The cell dors crash
And the master's drums echo
Roll right
Roll call
Now we're alright
We're all calm
This hits like fists
Bomb with the left and don't miss
With the sickest stilo I spark fear in the pigs
In the park
Head crack, I hijack the papars and the vapors
Caught fire up in you mind
Come back, rewind one time
Here come the hands on the leashes
The cross, the capital, the pale families, the
Fear and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch
The cell doors crash
And the master's drums echo
Roll right
Roll call
Now we're alright
We're all calm
Send him to the seventh level
For their lives and my lies
Were never settled
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by chris11162
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THIS SONG IS ABOUT !!! --->how governments ( corrupt ones or the corrupt part of some governments) can control people and how they have them so brainwashed into respecting authority , that you obey it without question ("here comes the hands on the leashes"), and how people are just brainwashed by symbolism ( the cross, the capital) etc.,, or get you to obey through fear ( "fear and the mouthpieces") and how they can pretty much just say to do something and we do it , blindly following , ("roll right roll call")
The line "send 'em to the seventh level", which isn't shown on the lyrics above, is a reference to Dante's nine levels of hell. The seventh is where zealous war mongers are sent. This makes it seem as if this song is about aggresiveness of the US and their police.
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"Gaza to Tienanmen"
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my favorite song of all time. when the chorus comes, i get goose bumps as i feel raw energy surge through my body. powerful stuff
yea dude wtfs up with rages lyrics they make no sense