"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.
Fresh night perfect insanity
Very dark placid skies bring an end
No moon shining like an untouched
Ass of the boy next door
Feeling the first impressions
Of a strange drug
Set the leathery skin of a female
Straddling a furnace
Illuminates in blue
Hands melt against its surface
Feel no pain
Kiss the burner, lips fall away
Blood runs down insides
Of her thighs
She tightens her grip on one last
Exaggerated movement
Then falls to the ground
A pile of ashes
The furnace stands triumphant
Over the mound
The next in line, a young boy
Approaches
He is assaulted by the flames
Shooting out like sharp tongues
Of hungry animals
Of hungry animals
The disciple now crouches in
The belly of god
His second skin removed
The boy lay sodomized and tired
Very dark placid skies bring an end
No moon shining like an untouched
Ass of the boy next door
Feeling the first impressions
Of a strange drug
Set the leathery skin of a female
Straddling a furnace
Illuminates in blue
Hands melt against its surface
Feel no pain
Kiss the burner, lips fall away
Blood runs down insides
Of her thighs
She tightens her grip on one last
Exaggerated movement
Then falls to the ground
A pile of ashes
The furnace stands triumphant
Over the mound
The next in line, a young boy
Approaches
He is assaulted by the flames
Shooting out like sharp tongues
Of hungry animals
Of hungry animals
The disciple now crouches in
The belly of god
His second skin removed
The boy lay sodomized and tired
Lyrics submitted by tristan_smith
Burnt Offerings Lyrics as written by Rozz Williams Rikk Agnew
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Rozz had a problem with heroin. And this song is describing the effect, "Beginning to feel the first impressions Of a strange drug ". Also, he describes a young boy, who could perhaps depict him when he started using.
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