"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.
She's a zombie baby
Dead ringer in my head
And now we're rollin'
We're empty playin'
Hey! Wow!
Hey, yeah, like a zombie breathin'
Hey, yeah, been thinkin' of you life
Hey, yeah, like a desert monkey
Hey, yeah, we go down inside
Wow! Like a creep or solar center
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, like your hands on my back and
Hey, yeah, be a bigman or bleed
Hey, yeah, like a days last moment
Hey, yeah, give me what I need
Wow! Like a baby sister
Wow! Ooh, a dark creep lover
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Yeah, get a load of this, gonna get away
One hell beast shot over me, yeah
Gonna bleed from like, a shrapnel wound
I wasn't made to suffer, huh!
Shootin' on the run, gonna wreck 'em
Yo, you can't just dump 'em
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, it's alone in my head
Hey, yeah, and I think of the past
Hey, yeah, I'm a dirty mouth
Hey, yeah, because I'm alive and
Wow! People's sole possession
Wow! Ooh, a dirty little witch
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Dead ringer in my head
And now we're rollin'
We're empty playin'
Hey! Wow!
Hey, yeah, like a zombie breathin'
Hey, yeah, been thinkin' of you life
Hey, yeah, like a desert monkey
Hey, yeah, we go down inside
Wow! Like a creep or solar center
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, like your hands on my back and
Hey, yeah, be a bigman or bleed
Hey, yeah, like a days last moment
Hey, yeah, give me what I need
Wow! Like a baby sister
Wow! Ooh, a dark creep lover
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead, yeah
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Yeah, get a load of this, gonna get away
One hell beast shot over me, yeah
Gonna bleed from like, a shrapnel wound
I wasn't made to suffer, huh!
Shootin' on the run, gonna wreck 'em
Yo, you can't just dump 'em
Freak out and feed the gods
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Creep on the wheels of love
Do you know what it means to feel like god?
Hey, yeah, it's alone in my head
Hey, yeah, and I think of the past
Hey, yeah, I'm a dirty mouth
Hey, yeah, because I'm alive and
Wow! People's sole possession
Wow! Ooh, a dirty little witch
Wow! I'm gonna feel it
Wow! I'm gonna feel it, dead
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lyrics submitted by imilktjesussnipples
Feed the Gods Lyrics as written by Phil Buerstatte Jay Noel Yuenger
Lyrics © FOX MUSIC, INC., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Actually, this is a white Zombie song you fucking idiot.
Hayward and the duck kick ass.
do these people know that this a white zombie song??? o well i dont care this is my fav. white zombie song its just so damn easy to head bang to it
there are two different versions of this song.one is by White Zombie, and the other by Rob, and it's on his Greatest Hits album.the rob zombie one is a bit longer.anyway, it's a great song, and i have no idea what is it about
I thought he was singing "Few know what it means to feel like god"
Anyways, great great song! White Zombie always did remain one of my favourite bands