"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.
Immense oceans of gore, rivers of pus, mountains of bones
Rapture, fester in filth, abnormal wealth, immense in a world of decadence
Ecstasy in decay, engrossed in deterioration
Penchant for extreme ordure
Pervading of viscera
Rejoice in gristly disgust
Exorbitant reality
One thousand years of compiled waste, frenzy in muck intoxicates
Ecstasy in decay, engrossed in deterioration
Penchant for extreme ordure
Pervading of viscera
Rejoice in gristly disgust
Exuberant castigation
Wading in bile, soaking in guts, ancient innards
Immense oceans of gore, rivers of pus, mountains of bones
Rapture, fester in filth, abnormal wealth immense in a world of decadence
Mind altered, eternally fetid cadaverous empire
Squelched domain
Swamped ruins, dismal necrotic incarnate metropolis
Lost dwelling
Exorbitant reality
Obfuscated ossuary
One thousand years of compiled waste, frenzy in muck intoxicates
Rapture, fester in filth, abnormal wealth, immense in a world of decadence
Ecstasy in decay, engrossed in deterioration
Penchant for extreme ordure
Pervading of viscera
Rejoice in gristly disgust
Exorbitant reality
One thousand years of compiled waste, frenzy in muck intoxicates
Ecstasy in decay, engrossed in deterioration
Penchant for extreme ordure
Pervading of viscera
Rejoice in gristly disgust
Exuberant castigation
Wading in bile, soaking in guts, ancient innards
Immense oceans of gore, rivers of pus, mountains of bones
Rapture, fester in filth, abnormal wealth immense in a world of decadence
Mind altered, eternally fetid cadaverous empire
Squelched domain
Swamped ruins, dismal necrotic incarnate metropolis
Lost dwelling
Exorbitant reality
Obfuscated ossuary
One thousand years of compiled waste, frenzy in muck intoxicates
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