"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.
We've come here, from so far away
I can save you
If you leave it all behind
This suffering's, been far too long
Would you take a trip with me
On the back of a star
I feel like earth's gravity is just here to pull us down
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
This dark womb
Wraps and covets me
Redefining understanding, if you open
Up the heart
Nurturing, this phenomenon
We can carry you on our wings, our wings
Through the dark
Lightning flashes of insight
Into the mirth of a dark sky
Pain of division is nothing
Joy of dissolution is everything
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Blackness consumes body comforts core of nothing
Mother I can remember, a vault of security
Can you take me away
Would you take me away
Won't you take me away
Away
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
I can save you
If you leave it all behind
This suffering's, been far too long
Would you take a trip with me
On the back of a star
I feel like earth's gravity is just here to pull us down
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
This dark womb
Wraps and covets me
Redefining understanding, if you open
Up the heart
Nurturing, this phenomenon
We can carry you on our wings, our wings
Through the dark
Lightning flashes of insight
Into the mirth of a dark sky
Pain of division is nothing
Joy of dissolution is everything
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Blackness consumes body comforts core of nothing
Mother I can remember, a vault of security
Can you take me away
Would you take me away
Won't you take me away
Away
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
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Here's my take. I don't have quite the Mudvayne background, but this and Shadow of a Man are my favorites on this album.
I think the song is talking about being rescued from a dark world. In the beginning the world was good, and then turned evil ("We've come here, from so far away"). People in the world have to deal with this massive evil influence ("This dark womb [the world], Wraps and covets me...")
Several lines of the lyrics are from the point of view of an outside greater power offering to take people to a better place. ("I can save you, If you leave it all behind ") Notice that "if you leave it all behind" means that it is not easy to give up the evil. Likewise: "Would you take a trip with me On the back of a star".
The last chunk of the lyrics are from the point of view of a a person in the world: "Mother of creation wait, Embrace the souls Of a lost world [us] Carry them away," is the speaker asking to be saved and not left behind. "Pour firmament between our waters. Seperate the space " asks to put the heavens between the speaker and the evil world, to be seperated.
If its not terribly obvious, this interpretation lends itself to a strong Christian theme.(and possibly other religions with concepts of salvation, i'm not a scholar)
"Mother of destruction wait with a belt of Skulls strap" would refer to the 'Angel of Death' dealing the severe justice to the evil world.
Thus, given the "Mother of Creation" which could save you [mercy], and "Mother of Destruction" who deals just punishment [severity], the song seems to fit.
That or I'm full of crap. Thoughts?