"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.
Now we want peace without patriot missiles
Blown to bits are civilian targets
Parade! Laugh! Rejoice! Sing!
We are the victors of...nothing
Spend more money on a war
Your people starved and turn to whores
Slaves of the chosen ones paying millions for each bomb
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
Freedom cried the marching man
Flags ripped out of their black hands
Beaten! Slain! Tortured! Killed!
Their only mistake was being born here
Invade countries just for oil
Send your troops all down to boil
Iraq! Grenada! Nam and Chile!
Truman doctrine our own way
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
The government here can suck my balls
Policing the world in overalls
Armed rebellion minority
Disrespected race, colored mind
Crazed loonies all walk the streets
Missing children on milk cartons
Mother selling child for crack
Mr. President check your back
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
The American way!
The American way!
Blown to bits are civilian targets
Parade! Laugh! Rejoice! Sing!
We are the victors of...nothing
Spend more money on a war
Your people starved and turn to whores
Slaves of the chosen ones paying millions for each bomb
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
Freedom cried the marching man
Flags ripped out of their black hands
Beaten! Slain! Tortured! Killed!
Their only mistake was being born here
Invade countries just for oil
Send your troops all down to boil
Iraq! Grenada! Nam and Chile!
Truman doctrine our own way
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
The government here can suck my balls
Policing the world in overalls
Armed rebellion minority
Disrespected race, colored mind
Crazed loonies all walk the streets
Missing children on milk cartons
Mother selling child for crack
Mr. President check your back
Country without a race
Formed from people you disgrace
White right conservative might
Killers of Kennedy with no fright
The American way!
The American way!
The American way!
Lyrics submitted by Billy Pilgrim, unstuck in time
Temper Lyrics as written by Serj Tankian Daron Malakian
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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That's coming from FreeThinker. Way to think freely... wonder if anyone else understands what I mean.