"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.
The faggots with AIDS are all gonna fry
You stuck it up an ass(?) and now we're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
The KKK took the niggers out to die
When the blackie's burning
I hope he's gonna die!
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die!
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die!
I talked to my bitch, but she was a guy
I talked to my man and she said you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
You've got cancer so go fuckin' die!
If you got AIDS spread it around and take some lives
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
DIE!
You stuck it up an ass(?) and now we're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
The KKK took the niggers out to die
When the blackie's burning
I hope he's gonna die!
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die!
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die!
I talked to my bitch, but she was a guy
I talked to my man and she said you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
You've got cancer so go fuckin' die!
If you got AIDS spread it around and take some lives
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
Die when you die when you die you're gonna die
DIE!
Lyrics submitted by Egghead15229, edited by georgeisba, minuette
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Die When You Die is a song about being who you are and accepting your fate.its not racist ,homophobic, or even hateful. the lyrics dont sugercoat anything and thats why it pisses people off. the sad thing about how people interpet gg is that they just look at keywords and take the meaning from them. gg covers sensitive subject matter such as people with aids, then he mentions "niggers", homosexuals, and people with cancer so automatically people take it that hes venting and taking his hatred out on them but he's not. gg is simply expressing his sorta ftw attitude and envisions a world where people laugh in the face of their fate and have fun in their own fucked up way or they just go and fuckin' die. gg =brutal+poetic+ undomesticated man beast . rrrar