"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.
One of us will be betrayed it's not enough for you to say
"i'm sorry" or lie about it all yer a meglo-nymph & yer mating call is
money & religion, segregation & division
your dirty cash in the pockets of the wicked politicians
lobbying for slavery in a new and modern way
repenting when yer caught, but this is what i say:
* yer sick, i hate you ya stupid motherfucker
yer so fuckin' blind ya have no fuckin' mind
yer nazi white-trash yer words come out like shit
yer so fuckin' sick yer such a fuckin' prick
ya have that special something that "sprite in you appeal"
ya think that we all love you but this is how you make us feel
yer sweaty, fuckin ignorant A product of conditioning
eugenics, social darwinisim, an excuse for yer positioning
yer crass & evil ways are all that got you there today
i hope you get shot, and this is what we say
*
one of us will be betrayed
and time kills us all
so we say... we hope you die sooner
"i'm sorry" or lie about it all yer a meglo-nymph & yer mating call is
money & religion, segregation & division
your dirty cash in the pockets of the wicked politicians
lobbying for slavery in a new and modern way
repenting when yer caught, but this is what i say:
* yer sick, i hate you ya stupid motherfucker
yer so fuckin' blind ya have no fuckin' mind
yer nazi white-trash yer words come out like shit
yer so fuckin' sick yer such a fuckin' prick
ya have that special something that "sprite in you appeal"
ya think that we all love you but this is how you make us feel
yer sweaty, fuckin ignorant A product of conditioning
eugenics, social darwinisim, an excuse for yer positioning
yer crass & evil ways are all that got you there today
i hope you get shot, and this is what we say
*
one of us will be betrayed
and time kills us all
so we say... we hope you die sooner
Lyrics submitted by boxfo
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damn great song...fuck off daddys little defect your so immature
This is a fucking great song... ? No comments here ? Weird...
I think this is a perfect song that should be dedicated for President Bush. Im not a hippy but Bush is a nazi.
Ieatpunk, obviously, you are a dumbass who can't figure out what 2 + 4 equals to. This song really isn't aimed at anything, you are right, its just an anger song, something that you'd want to say to someone you hate's face. its hard to decifer waht exactly WHO they are talking about, tbut the song is really catchy you got to admit. But really, this is one of there average songs, a great song is Gang Control, which is possibly the best riot song EVER
thelastpunkkid: right, so its not talking about anyone. its just very angry. but wait, its catchy. OHHH! I see! So if a song doesn't make sense but its catchy, then its awesome! YEA I UNDERSTAND! YAY I LOVE THIS SONG!
also, i didn't see one of the last lines of the song: "time kills us all" shit its so profound! i didn't realize that time killed us all... if i had seen this line before, i would not have posted so harshly.
I didn't realize that kids' lives have been reduced to such pointlessness as to fight over a song.
^ songs are important enough to fight about
Ieatpunk, its stupid to make fun of a song just for saying something obvious. If that was something to make fun of, than tons of songs would be guilty. As for you, and thelastpunkkid, kill yourselves because punk is in your log in name, fer real.
dude if the skins and punks got together we could take the united states down
Nazi skins or rude boy skins? Nazi skins and punk wouldn't go too well together, the punk movement tends to praise tolerance much more than Nazis. I mean, shit, punks would look to people of all colors and religions in their movement, while Nazis would look to exclude the majority of them. Definitely wouldn't work.