"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.
In every neighborhood you got your house that’s supposedly haunted
Well in our neighborhood there’s the Hell House
And right now nobody can believe it
But there’s a sign out front of hell house
That says…
FOR SALE
(Monoxide)
They tell me you can see the chalk lines
In the middle of the living room
A sure sign that somebody musta died there
I think they said it was a bride and a groom
And I guess they both died tryin to run for the stairs
I don’t care shoot me a price
I wanna move in quick
I wanna sleep with the bodies while the blood still drips
Call me crazy but it’s just what I want
I really hope that shit happened and it’s not just a fraud
(Shaggy)
Into the kitchen
This kitchen floors full of cracked tiles and rat traps
When the sink goes on the drips will make your head crack
And those cupboard doors smackin open and closed
A priest came to do a blessin but he got hosed
Pedophile
And that’s just the beginning
Cos other shelves are stacked with plates
That be spinnin on em
And I heard the drawers open and knives get to flinging
The folks that stayed here got seventeen in em
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Blaze)
Into the bedroom
They say they found his wife’s body mangled on the bed
With six inch wounds in the back of her head
Her kids were there too both hanging in the closet
With one extension cord and their blood still on it
Thinking about the blood it was the most they ever saw
Ont their clothes and on the floor and on their sheets and on the walls
Noone could be prepared for the last fatal findings
Underneath the bed more mutilated grindings
(ABK)
In the house there’s a stairway leading to the attic
People say that there was a room where this witch did magic
On the 12th day of every month you could hear a yell
Like the curse on the neighborhood was sending her to hell
I was so interested I had to know more
Stole a ladder and I climbed through a window on the second floor
Straight to the attic cold chills with no surprise
Stood a girl named Amy and a witch giving evil eyes
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Madrox)
They say that in the basement's where it all went down
They cemented the walls and repainted the ground
To hide the blood stains and pentograms that were there before
They put a chain and padlock on the cellar door
But this is hell house aint no chains or paint stopping the shit that lurks
And lives inside the dirt
In the cracks of the framework
Don’t say it’s a tall tale,
that’s why they call it hell house and its always for sale
(Violent J)
I hear the backyard is a cemetary of bodies
And if it rains hard enough you see the top of they noggins
They got trees that they hung bodies from
It’s frightening
some nights I hear a gurgle a gasp and ropes tightening
There’s always vultures circling in the sky
And the sun never shines house covered in vines
And the smell coming outta that yard would choke a pig
I skateboard back and forth smoking a jiv
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
I just wonder how much you want for that mutherfucker man cos that house is the shit!
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Well in our neighborhood there’s the Hell House
And right now nobody can believe it
But there’s a sign out front of hell house
That says…
FOR SALE
(Monoxide)
They tell me you can see the chalk lines
In the middle of the living room
A sure sign that somebody musta died there
I think they said it was a bride and a groom
And I guess they both died tryin to run for the stairs
I don’t care shoot me a price
I wanna move in quick
I wanna sleep with the bodies while the blood still drips
Call me crazy but it’s just what I want
I really hope that shit happened and it’s not just a fraud
(Shaggy)
Into the kitchen
This kitchen floors full of cracked tiles and rat traps
When the sink goes on the drips will make your head crack
And those cupboard doors smackin open and closed
A priest came to do a blessin but he got hosed
Pedophile
And that’s just the beginning
Cos other shelves are stacked with plates
That be spinnin on em
And I heard the drawers open and knives get to flinging
The folks that stayed here got seventeen in em
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Blaze)
Into the bedroom
They say they found his wife’s body mangled on the bed
With six inch wounds in the back of her head
Her kids were there too both hanging in the closet
With one extension cord and their blood still on it
Thinking about the blood it was the most they ever saw
Ont their clothes and on the floor and on their sheets and on the walls
Noone could be prepared for the last fatal findings
Underneath the bed more mutilated grindings
(ABK)
In the house there’s a stairway leading to the attic
People say that there was a room where this witch did magic
On the 12th day of every month you could hear a yell
Like the curse on the neighborhood was sending her to hell
I was so interested I had to know more
Stole a ladder and I climbed through a window on the second floor
Straight to the attic cold chills with no surprise
Stood a girl named Amy and a witch giving evil eyes
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
(Madrox)
They say that in the basement's where it all went down
They cemented the walls and repainted the ground
To hide the blood stains and pentograms that were there before
They put a chain and padlock on the cellar door
But this is hell house aint no chains or paint stopping the shit that lurks
And lives inside the dirt
In the cracks of the framework
Don’t say it’s a tall tale,
that’s why they call it hell house and its always for sale
(Violent J)
I hear the backyard is a cemetary of bodies
And if it rains hard enough you see the top of they noggins
They got trees that they hung bodies from
It’s frightening
some nights I hear a gurgle a gasp and ropes tightening
There’s always vultures circling in the sky
And the sun never shines house covered in vines
And the smell coming outta that yard would choke a pig
I skateboard back and forth smoking a jiv
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
How much they want?
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it?
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Did you hear it
I just wonder how much you want for that mutherfucker man cos that house is the shit!
With the spirits
Hell house for sale
Did you hear the hell house for sale
Lyrics submitted by MyAntiDrugIsSuicide
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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"I had all and then most of you"
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hahaha LOL. Anybody realize that the house in Scary Movie 2 was CALLED Hell House. We heard this song before we EVER seen the movie. Then when we did, my brother and busted out laughing when we seen it say 'Hell House'. That's when I said to him, "Hell House for sale, did you hear the Hell House for sale?" while I pointed at the TV screen.
hahaha LOL. Anybody realize that the house in Scary Movie 2 was CALLED Hell House? We heard this song before we (my brother and I) EVER seen the movie. Then when we did, my brother and I busted out laughing when we seen it say 'Hell House'. That's when I said to him, "Hell House for sale, did you hear the Hell House for sale?" while I pointed at the TV screen.
this song is the shit!!! u gotta love it! great halloween type song to let ya kids listen to before they go out trick or treating :)... scare the fuck outta them! i love this song