"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.
You starve your children on neglect
Then feed their bellies with fear
Concussion bat to the brain
Witness to a battered mother
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
Just look at the scars you make
Your terror makes your kids break
A broken home just as you were raised
With fist raised up to your children
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
This battle is on all
You've made beautiful
Now hateful
You wretched life wrecker
Abuser
Now suffer
Open fire
On the desire of the man
Open fire
With strife we'll strike down the hand
(Open fire, build the pyre)
If I can't make you see the damage you've made
(Open fire, build the pyre)
I'll make you wish you'd never been alive x2
Then feed their bellies with fear
Concussion bat to the brain
Witness to a battered mother
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
Just look at the scars you make
Your terror makes your kids break
A broken home just as you were raised
With fist raised up to your children
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
This battle is on all
You've made beautiful
Now hateful
You wretched life wrecker
Abuser
Now suffer
Open fire
On the desire of the man
Open fire
With strife we'll strike down the hand
(Open fire, build the pyre)
If I can't make you see the damage you've made
(Open fire, build the pyre)
I'll make you wish you'd never been alive x2
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus
A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation Lyrics as written by Jason Suecof Corey Beaulieu
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Hey,Hey,Hey,Hey,Hey...so 80's metal ohh ya!
I think its meant to be a play on this "hey! Hey! Hey!" which a lot bands also like metallica do live but in this song it fits the music really well ^^
I think it's about threatening to kill someone if they harm the people they love
And the 'hey! hey!' think is awsome, especially when they do it live
To be more specific I think its about him threatening to kill an abusive father. hence the "your children" and "your kids" and he also says "a battered mother" which could be the wife. Makes sense to me..........
Im in the music video for this song...they shot it on 6/21 and I was an extra..it was soo awesome..look out for it sometime in the next month or so
sweet! i wanna be an extra for it!!! damnit! was it cool? youre proabably never gonna read this and im prolly not coming back to this, i already know the lyrics... its about an abusive father...
This song resenbles something i saw on A&E today about a abusive grandfather and how his family kills him.
i alos thought it mean " I think its about him threatening to kill an abusive father. hence the "your children" and "your kids" and he also says "a battered mother" which could be the wife. Makes sense to me.........."
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