"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.
Debris, dirt, disease, we've been brought to our knees, anything and everything is torn away.
Our world turned upside down and torn to the ground, shaking, thanking God for surviving this day.
In the wake of the Bunt!
Tattered masses digging through the remains of the lives come and gone.
That elusive light broken and reborn a brotherhood combines by the fury in our eyes.
Giant, looming all, consuming the bunt strikes like lightning.
Citizens feel fear!
The world turned upside and and torn to the ground,
Shaking, thanking God for surviving this day.
In the wake of the Bunt!!
Hearts aflame - we call the name of justice and nothing more.
Strike up the song and scream along, vengeance will be ours
This time it's war!
We set upon its quivering mass
And at last the moment has come.
Shaking, voices cry as innocents die
Avenging their poor broken homes with fury and violence.
We strike down she who defies us - bodies reach a horrible sum,
Then its horrible eyes lock on our thighs like they were appetizers in a feast to come.
Then opens the maw of that retched beast!
Dear God help us, it wants to consume us, eating the flesh of those on the hunt,
Peeling skin from my bones, I want to go home...
Dun dun dun dun
In the wake of the bunt!
We set upon its quivering mass
And at last the moment has come.
Shaking, voices cry as innocents die
Avenging their poor broken homes with fury and violence.
We strike down she who defies us - bodies reach a horrible sum,
Then its horrible eyes lock on our thighs like they were appetizers in a feast to come.
Our world turned upside down and torn to the ground, shaking, thanking God for surviving this day.
In the wake of the Bunt!
Tattered masses digging through the remains of the lives come and gone.
That elusive light broken and reborn a brotherhood combines by the fury in our eyes.
Giant, looming all, consuming the bunt strikes like lightning.
Citizens feel fear!
The world turned upside and and torn to the ground,
Shaking, thanking God for surviving this day.
In the wake of the Bunt!!
Hearts aflame - we call the name of justice and nothing more.
Strike up the song and scream along, vengeance will be ours
This time it's war!
We set upon its quivering mass
And at last the moment has come.
Shaking, voices cry as innocents die
Avenging their poor broken homes with fury and violence.
We strike down she who defies us - bodies reach a horrible sum,
Then its horrible eyes lock on our thighs like they were appetizers in a feast to come.
Then opens the maw of that retched beast!
Dear God help us, it wants to consume us, eating the flesh of those on the hunt,
Peeling skin from my bones, I want to go home...
Dun dun dun dun
In the wake of the bunt!
We set upon its quivering mass
And at last the moment has come.
Shaking, voices cry as innocents die
Avenging their poor broken homes with fury and violence.
We strike down she who defies us - bodies reach a horrible sum,
Then its horrible eyes lock on our thighs like they were appetizers in a feast to come.
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
In the Wake of the Bunt Lyrics as written by Erik Daniel Engstrom Dashiell Han Arkenstone
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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me and my roommate were listening to this song, and screaming along, but theres too much screaming in one part, so someone called the cops and said someone was getting raped. they came to our door. haha.