"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.
Wait for everything evil in you comes out
I'll stain when we'll only motivate sound instead, Sergeant
Make for the table, in hopes that I won't be afraid again
Call when enabled and send the leader out against
I will stage a reenactment in a false pretense
Exist, inflict unworthy unconsciousness
Why debate when the action's suppressed then kill the acquitted?
Listen to the sounds that remain in question in hopes to solidify a truce
Amongst the children and the jury that stands the verdict
Alive here among the dead
Evolve, Monstar
Show me the things I've never wanted done
Evolve, Monstar
Do to me the things I never wanted done
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Blood-hungry, cannibalistic, unfit family ties
In a series of knocks to the young girl's head side
Come write me a letter and paste it on my refrigerator door
Inspected inspector, I think we've found something over here
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Stay until Wednesday
And write me a childlike letter, pretending
At war here in Thursday
Let's make this our last day at home by the Fence
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence?
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence? (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe" (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio"
I'll stain when we'll only motivate sound instead, Sergeant
Make for the table, in hopes that I won't be afraid again
Call when enabled and send the leader out against
I will stage a reenactment in a false pretense
Exist, inflict unworthy unconsciousness
Why debate when the action's suppressed then kill the acquitted?
Listen to the sounds that remain in question in hopes to solidify a truce
Amongst the children and the jury that stands the verdict
Alive here among the dead
Evolve, Monstar
Show me the things I've never wanted done
Evolve, Monstar
Do to me the things I never wanted done
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Blood-hungry, cannibalistic, unfit family ties
In a series of knocks to the young girl's head side
Come write me a letter and paste it on my refrigerator door
Inspected inspector, I think we've found something over here
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Stay until Wednesday
And write me a childlike letter, pretending
At war here in Thursday
Let's make this our last day at home by the Fence
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence?
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence? (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe" (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio"
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Everything Evil Lyrics as written by Joshua Eppard Claudio Sanchez
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