"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.
Get up, look around
That I see each and every day
And you will see the lies
I deal with them in my own way
I try to breed myself right
I try to breed my thoughts right
All you people stand against me
The threat of your hostility
Your talk behind my back
What the fuck should I do?
Induces my attack
To make myself a man
What the fuck should I do
I'll never give up my pride
I'm doing the best that I can
And I'll never surrender my hate
You on the opposite side
You're the one who made me this way
Suppressed anger for all these years now
Disgusting people, you stand and point at me
They are all but the pathetic
Embarking on a crusade that is so damn addictive
Therefore their prosperity
It will never ever be granted
What's up with this world?
What the fuck, I can't breathe
Ask yourself a question, do you need to conform?
Pray for the forgiveness as you're stripped of your rights
With the brain-washing games that are engaged to restrain now
White collared people always seem to decide
The power to cure the power to kill
Worthless
The power is ours we'll use it at will
Complexed is society, waging pressure upon our backs
And punishing our methods with their profits
These lashes killing and it pushes down, breaking our knees deep into the ground
And faulting, on the preside, once again I just can't decide
What's up with this world, what the fuck I can't breathe
Books of knowledge showing their glint forms of torture
Dropping the oppressor is our only solution
Psychanalytical ways will never ever succeed
Our lives are neglected our thoughts are invaded
But we had fought for conformity?
In finding a way into our brains and motives
Get up and step to conformity
This is not the end
Worthless
That I see each and every day
And you will see the lies
I deal with them in my own way
I try to breed myself right
I try to breed my thoughts right
All you people stand against me
The threat of your hostility
Your talk behind my back
What the fuck should I do?
Induces my attack
To make myself a man
What the fuck should I do
I'll never give up my pride
I'm doing the best that I can
And I'll never surrender my hate
You on the opposite side
You're the one who made me this way
Suppressed anger for all these years now
Disgusting people, you stand and point at me
They are all but the pathetic
Embarking on a crusade that is so damn addictive
Therefore their prosperity
It will never ever be granted
What's up with this world?
What the fuck, I can't breathe
Ask yourself a question, do you need to conform?
Pray for the forgiveness as you're stripped of your rights
With the brain-washing games that are engaged to restrain now
White collared people always seem to decide
The power to cure the power to kill
Worthless
The power is ours we'll use it at will
Complexed is society, waging pressure upon our backs
And punishing our methods with their profits
These lashes killing and it pushes down, breaking our knees deep into the ground
And faulting, on the preside, once again I just can't decide
What's up with this world, what the fuck I can't breathe
Books of knowledge showing their glint forms of torture
Dropping the oppressor is our only solution
Psychanalytical ways will never ever succeed
Our lives are neglected our thoughts are invaded
But we had fought for conformity?
In finding a way into our brains and motives
Get up and step to conformity
This is not the end
Worthless
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
D.T.O. Lyrics as written by Mathew Paul Baumbach Brendon Cohen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i have no idea what this song is about but i do agree with hijinx that line is about what she said but other then that i got nothing.truth be told i only started to listen to V.O.D. because thier from long island but now that i know they kick ass im glad their from here