"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.
Am I'm sorry your sky went black?
Put your knives in babies' backs
Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's
And Huxley too?
But I'm sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat
And your apple sticking into my throat
Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
And your crucifixion commercials failed
But I'm just a pitiful
Anonymous, yeah
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing their song
Am I sorry to just be alive
Putting my face in the bee-hive?
Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald
Pinks and cocaine too?
Sorry I never check the bag in my head
For a bomb and my halo was a needle hole
Sorry I saw a priest being beaten
And I made a wish
But I'm just a pitiful
Anonymous
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
And we all just sing their song
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing their song
We all just sing their song
We all just sing their song
"Valley of death we are free
Your father's your prison, you see"
"Valley of death we are free
Your father's your prison, you see"
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing this song
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
You're just a copy of an imitation
You're just a copy of an imitation
(The president is dead)
(Let us pray)
Put your knives in babies' backs
Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's
And Huxley too?
But I'm sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat
And your apple sticking into my throat
Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
And your crucifixion commercials failed
But I'm just a pitiful
Anonymous, yeah
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing their song
Am I sorry to just be alive
Putting my face in the bee-hive?
Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald
Pinks and cocaine too?
Sorry I never check the bag in my head
For a bomb and my halo was a needle hole
Sorry I saw a priest being beaten
And I made a wish
But I'm just a pitiful
Anonymous
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
And we all just sing their song
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing their song
We all just sing their song
We all just sing their song
"Valley of death we are free
Your father's your prison, you see"
"Valley of death we are free
Your father's your prison, you see"
I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
We all just sing this song
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
Nanananana, nanananana
You're just a copy of an imitation
You're just a copy of an imitation
(The president is dead)
(Let us pray)
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by kit5810031
Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) Lyrics as written by John Lowery Jeordie White
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