"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.
I swallow razor blades and spit up blood
Cut out my heart and gave it to my love
I hung myself with an extension cord
And dangled high above the Quija board
I heard the wind through the trees and it made me scream
I'm wonderin' if it's real life or just another dream
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain because it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I'm drinkin' gas, smokin' square after square
I'm lookin' for this place but I don't know where
I'm just a soul in the land of the lost
I feel the blood in my lungs when I cough
I cut my hands off in the dark and just sat there and bled
While the whole world fell apart inside of my head
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain because it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I cut my rib cage open with a butcher knife
And opened up the wound to show my life
I'm not the devil, but your mama swear we're one in the same
And we didn't make it this way so we're not carrying the blame
I been down and out
I know what that's all about
I need something...someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I need something, someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I need something, someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I'm falling to pieces and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
Jumped out a twenty story window today
I got back up, and then I walked away
My head was screaming for a Tylenol
Opened the bottle and I ate 'em all
My head was spinnin' in a daze and I need to relax
So where's my chainsaw, butcher knife, and muthafuckin' axe?
Something...someone
To help me with my brain cause it's falling apart
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain cause it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
Cut out my heart and gave it to my love
I hung myself with an extension cord
And dangled high above the Quija board
I heard the wind through the trees and it made me scream
I'm wonderin' if it's real life or just another dream
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain because it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I'm drinkin' gas, smokin' square after square
I'm lookin' for this place but I don't know where
I'm just a soul in the land of the lost
I feel the blood in my lungs when I cough
I cut my hands off in the dark and just sat there and bled
While the whole world fell apart inside of my head
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain because it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I cut my rib cage open with a butcher knife
And opened up the wound to show my life
I'm not the devil, but your mama swear we're one in the same
And we didn't make it this way so we're not carrying the blame
I been down and out
I know what that's all about
I need something...someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I need something, someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I need something, someone (You fall apart!!)
Help me wit my brain
Help me wit my brain
I'm falling to pieces and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
Jumped out a twenty story window today
I got back up, and then I walked away
My head was screaming for a Tylenol
Opened the bottle and I ate 'em all
My head was spinnin' in a daze and I need to relax
So where's my chainsaw, butcher knife, and muthafuckin' axe?
Something...someone
To help me with my brain cause it's falling apart
I need something...someone
To help me with my brain cause it's falling apart
I fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I'm falling to pieces, and I don't know why
It's all because...
It's all because we're all afraid to die
And if you think...
And if you think about it, it'll eat you
From the inside out till you don't know what to do
You fall apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
I keep fallin' apart (I never wanted to die)
I keep fallin' apart
Lyrics submitted by nikuku
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This is the best song by twiztid,fuckin awesome
This song is really friggin good. Its so true. A lot of people don't get to live their life as they want to bcuz their so damn afraid to die, and if all you think about is death, then you're never gonna fucking live and you're whole life falls apart.
Good song. Like meow said, people are afraid to live their life because they're afraid to die or afraid to make mistakes or afraid of shit in gerenal.
agree with Meow and Twizidclown.