"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.
This is the Lord of the God's
This is the Lord of the universe
This is the he who the winds fear
This is he right here, right here
Having a voice to his commandments, the Lord of all things
King, ruler and helper
Hear me now, and make all spirits subject on to me
Venomous snakes, magically charm
All of this appear with the wave of a wand
Pharaohs eternaly rest in they tomb
Hexes out-leash all out doom to consume
Nomads wander, where do they go?
Schallions go insane at the minds of Juggalos
Sand grains burn when the sun beats down
Skin rot's more as the earth spin's around
I got visions of flashbacks, of me on horseback
Dressed in black, a severed head on my lap
Lips and assholes hanging from my ear lobes
A sac filled up with sliced out pussy holes
We roll (Dark Lotus) a priest in control
Powerful forces coursin' through my black soul
The blood and screams of hieroglyphic dreams
The tragedy I bring will set you free!
chours x2
Yah heh yah mesh, shaking the wilderness of Kadesh
Ban Lamp Kilpen Urges, the apacolypse of the 7 Churches
Floatin' on a magic carpet with a phat sword
It's Joe Bruce on the Lotus ward
You could try to rub my lamp
I might float out and spike yo' ass like vamp
I bow to the pyramid I do confide
The secrets of the Carnival are deep inside
Disrespect it (foolish) then Hokus Pokus
I'll split your forehead and plant my Lotus
You don't know what this killer's all about
I might sever your head off and fuck your mouth
Bells and chimes ring 17 times
Faceless souls act out like mimes
Pegasus cry as gargoyle's take eyeballs from heads like skinless grapes
Even kings will fall to they knees
And end up only knowing one word (Please)
-chorus-
Come with me, to the legendary land of Ali Baba
A place of genies and flying carpets
What you wish for? rub a lamp
Take a chance in the land where the genies and the gypsies dance
Magical realms are held high, visions of wishes
I can see'em all dyin' 'cause the vision is vicious
I'm a warlock, wand waver, vagabond
Have you talkin' backwards Ali (Ali Baba) Baba
Ali ba Ali Baba, frog legs
Eyes of a cat, teeth of a paronah
Scale of a fish, a dream of a wish
Sight beyond sight, you never pictured this
Talk in reverse, and it shall appear
Standin' in front of you with a smile ear to ear
Some men called upon, from world to world
And he leaving with the souls of the boys and girls
Welcome to the dead wasteland, children of the damned
Demon throw me out a sac, i'm searchin' out the dark profession
Black Magician for equation, warlock gains wishes
Anything ya eye invisions, freakin' you without admission
Call on Ali Baba! (Help me with this saviour!)
Pray to the father! (What makes ya think he'll save ya?!)
Now your left to burn forever
All the demons cry together
Tear your body limb from limb
Only demons call upon him
-chours-
This is the Lord of the universe
This is the he who the winds fear
This is he right here, right here
Having a voice to his commandments, the Lord of all things
King, ruler and helper
Hear me now, and make all spirits subject on to me
Venomous snakes, magically charm
All of this appear with the wave of a wand
Pharaohs eternaly rest in they tomb
Hexes out-leash all out doom to consume
Nomads wander, where do they go?
Schallions go insane at the minds of Juggalos
Sand grains burn when the sun beats down
Skin rot's more as the earth spin's around
I got visions of flashbacks, of me on horseback
Dressed in black, a severed head on my lap
Lips and assholes hanging from my ear lobes
A sac filled up with sliced out pussy holes
We roll (Dark Lotus) a priest in control
Powerful forces coursin' through my black soul
The blood and screams of hieroglyphic dreams
The tragedy I bring will set you free!
chours x2
Yah heh yah mesh, shaking the wilderness of Kadesh
Ban Lamp Kilpen Urges, the apacolypse of the 7 Churches
Floatin' on a magic carpet with a phat sword
It's Joe Bruce on the Lotus ward
You could try to rub my lamp
I might float out and spike yo' ass like vamp
I bow to the pyramid I do confide
The secrets of the Carnival are deep inside
Disrespect it (foolish) then Hokus Pokus
I'll split your forehead and plant my Lotus
You don't know what this killer's all about
I might sever your head off and fuck your mouth
Bells and chimes ring 17 times
Faceless souls act out like mimes
Pegasus cry as gargoyle's take eyeballs from heads like skinless grapes
Even kings will fall to they knees
And end up only knowing one word (Please)
-chorus-
Come with me, to the legendary land of Ali Baba
A place of genies and flying carpets
What you wish for? rub a lamp
Take a chance in the land where the genies and the gypsies dance
Magical realms are held high, visions of wishes
I can see'em all dyin' 'cause the vision is vicious
I'm a warlock, wand waver, vagabond
Have you talkin' backwards Ali (Ali Baba) Baba
Ali ba Ali Baba, frog legs
Eyes of a cat, teeth of a paronah
Scale of a fish, a dream of a wish
Sight beyond sight, you never pictured this
Talk in reverse, and it shall appear
Standin' in front of you with a smile ear to ear
Some men called upon, from world to world
And he leaving with the souls of the boys and girls
Welcome to the dead wasteland, children of the damned
Demon throw me out a sac, i'm searchin' out the dark profession
Black Magician for equation, warlock gains wishes
Anything ya eye invisions, freakin' you without admission
Call on Ali Baba! (Help me with this saviour!)
Pray to the father! (What makes ya think he'll save ya?!)
Now your left to burn forever
All the demons cry together
Tear your body limb from limb
Only demons call upon him
-chours-
Lyrics submitted by DLRuFiOICPGC_SaLTY
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this song is just fuckin crazy.. i cant belive im the first to post about it, great fuckin song... not sure what it is about exactly but shit is some crazy juggalo shit....
hes talking about god and shangrila, like how the juggalos are above all these fucked religions that people fall and shit btw lyrics are "the known apacolypse of the 7 Churches"
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well that's bad ass. how'd you learn that?