"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 romantic one... No we ain't heartless actually, apart from Melissa, but only just...]
The Sunlight through the window open
Has drawn your face on a distant wall
The paleness of my endless nights
Has fed my desires
Purity of incest...
Now you're made of flesh and blood
They all gotta die - your blond hair I worship
Purification, by swords, by flames
And I love you as a friend
And I know the wildest truth
Extermination - I won't fucking abjure
You are the one, the all in one
My fate's coming as this wound in your mouth
No human nor material
My hands can't reach you but they'd really love to
I met you - it was on a summer
Your picture haunted me for years and centuries
Sieghilde - it was a mortal sin
Sieghilde - please don't let me leave
Sieghilde - weapon be thy name
You're the blood of universe, the animal instinct
The primitive fire, the ravished triumphant beauty
And I pray for you as a faithful my dear
You're the sacred Emerald, the fucking Angel's smile
Without you I'm nothing but void
And with you it's so hard, so hard to live
I wish I never met you
But I was born and you grew up
I would like to tear off my eyes
For never see you again
And I love you as a friend
My hand's between your legs
And I love you as a friend
And I cum on your face
You asked me for an Holocaust
You asked me for total death
May they all die, may they all suffer
May they all pay the price for their useless days
You unchained the hatred divine
I've carried in my chest for years of pain
A judgement day for this huge existence
The final temptation for a son of God
And your breasts they burn my hands
Live in you - so be it
Last affront for this world of no belief
The Sunlight through the window open
Has drawn your face on a fuckin distant wall
The paleness of my endless nights
Has fed my desires
Purity of incest...
Now you're made of flesh and blood
They all gotta die - Fuckin bitch
Purification, by swords, by flames
And I love you as a slut
The Sunlight through the window open
Has drawn your face on a distant wall
The paleness of my endless nights
Has fed my desires
Purity of incest...
Now you're made of flesh and blood
They all gotta die - your blond hair I worship
Purification, by swords, by flames
And I love you as a friend
And I know the wildest truth
Extermination - I won't fucking abjure
You are the one, the all in one
My fate's coming as this wound in your mouth
No human nor material
My hands can't reach you but they'd really love to
I met you - it was on a summer
Your picture haunted me for years and centuries
Sieghilde - it was a mortal sin
Sieghilde - please don't let me leave
Sieghilde - weapon be thy name
You're the blood of universe, the animal instinct
The primitive fire, the ravished triumphant beauty
And I pray for you as a faithful my dear
You're the sacred Emerald, the fucking Angel's smile
Without you I'm nothing but void
And with you it's so hard, so hard to live
I wish I never met you
But I was born and you grew up
I would like to tear off my eyes
For never see you again
And I love you as a friend
My hand's between your legs
And I love you as a friend
And I cum on your face
You asked me for an Holocaust
You asked me for total death
May they all die, may they all suffer
May they all pay the price for their useless days
You unchained the hatred divine
I've carried in my chest for years of pain
A judgement day for this huge existence
The final temptation for a son of God
And your breasts they burn my hands
Live in you - so be it
Last affront for this world of no belief
The Sunlight through the window open
Has drawn your face on a fuckin distant wall
The paleness of my endless nights
Has fed my desires
Purity of incest...
Now you're made of flesh and blood
They all gotta die - Fuckin bitch
Purification, by swords, by flames
And I love you as a slut
Lyrics submitted by Borknagar
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