"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.
As cyclones detach from the world above
And all the other worlds beneath them flow
Time winds caressing the dust of cold memories
Sought, to strive in twilight mist and penal fire
[Chorus]
As daylight suffers, night time recollects
For what wind hath drawn near, so nearâ?¦
Death has a contract on life and hell in-between
What was once not certain is now foreseen
When the pendulum is in it's reverse factor
Rivers run red and skies turn black
Accuracies of bloodbaths liberate from within
Conquests of a crooked cross and its coming loss
A magisterial maintenance of diabolic education
Where the opposite of innocence paves way for intelligence
Where pearls are chained for each tragic event
The glorification of deviance in progress
Liars in wait tries to quench their thirst for more
Drowning victims of a parallel universe
The scum of the earth, a rejoice of fouls
The world hates you for being precise
And all the other worlds beneath them flow
Time winds caressing the dust of cold memories
Sought, to strive in twilight mist and penal fire
[Chorus]
As daylight suffers, night time recollects
For what wind hath drawn near, so nearâ?¦
Death has a contract on life and hell in-between
What was once not certain is now foreseen
When the pendulum is in it's reverse factor
Rivers run red and skies turn black
Accuracies of bloodbaths liberate from within
Conquests of a crooked cross and its coming loss
A magisterial maintenance of diabolic education
Where the opposite of innocence paves way for intelligence
Where pearls are chained for each tragic event
The glorification of deviance in progress
Liars in wait tries to quench their thirst for more
Drowning victims of a parallel universe
The scum of the earth, a rejoice of fouls
The world hates you for being precise
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Absolute Sole Right Lyrics as written by Sven Atle Kopperud Stian Tomt Thoresen
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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well first off im gonna say that i cannot belive that im the one and only person to cmt. on this song in 5 fuckin years unbelivable!!! and as for what i see on this song it's got somethin to do with hell evil and darkness overtakin the world.... or at least like i said thats what i see but of course i may be wrong....! anyhow fuckin unbelivable ending the last minute and 1/2 is nothin but pure joy!!! amazing double bass and perfect orchestrated mayhem!!!
Agreeing with morocotopo there. Awesome song.
This is definitely a song that I overlooked, great song, meaning above makes sense as I wasn't sure what to make of it before reading that.
This is an underrated track, truly a masterpiece. The lyrics are in reference to an series events of total upheaval (religious, political, cultural..) think Ragnarok of nordic mythology, the End Times in abrahamic faiths. The first verse is referring to this. The chorus goes on to describe how something/someone (may it be a creature, person or a group of people) will appear at the time of these events.
The outro, beginning at 4:27 in the original version, is perhaps the most exceptional part of the entire symphony. "Liars in wait, try to quench their thirst for more" refers to the tribes of greed, responsible for bringing on the above mentioned events, while the last part "The world hates you for being precise" refers to the being/group mentioned above, speakers of truth when truth is looked down upon, by those who rule.