"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.
Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink
Choking with a link, killing with a stink
Just your mother's ho
Bleeding in a sink, poisoning a drink
Burning up, my sweet Clementine
Trampling a shrink, bleeding in a sink
Hallelujah wink, getting on the brink
Just your mother's ho
Hallelujah wink, murdering a shrink
Burning up
Oh, my sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
Killing with stink, bleeding in a sink
Poisoning a drink, getting on the brink
Just your mother's ho
Bleeding in a sink, trampling a shrink
Burning up, my sweet Clementine
Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink
Choking with a link, killing with a stink
Just your mother's ho
Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink
Burning up
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
I saw her laugh
Then she said
"Go away"
I saw her laugh
Then she said, then she said
"Go away," away
Oh, oh, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours, it's in the making
It's in the taking, making, baking, taking, faking, oh
Ho
My sweet Clementine
Ho
Shoulda been, coulda been, woulda been, woulda been you
Shoulda been, coulda been, woulda been, woulda been you
Choking with a link, killing with a stink
Just your mother's ho
Bleeding in a sink, poisoning a drink
Burning up, my sweet Clementine
Trampling a shrink, bleeding in a sink
Hallelujah wink, getting on the brink
Just your mother's ho
Hallelujah wink, murdering a shrink
Burning up
Oh, my sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
Killing with stink, bleeding in a sink
Poisoning a drink, getting on the brink
Just your mother's ho
Bleeding in a sink, trampling a shrink
Burning up, my sweet Clementine
Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink
Choking with a link, killing with a stink
Just your mother's ho
Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink
Burning up
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
I saw her laugh
Then she said
"Go away"
I saw her laugh
Then she said, then she said
"Go away," away
Oh, oh, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making, baby, oh
My sweet revenge
Will be yours, it's in the making
It's in the taking, making, baking, taking, faking, oh
Ho
My sweet Clementine
Ho
Shoulda been, coulda been, woulda been, woulda been you
Shoulda been, coulda been, woulda been, woulda been you
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Revenga Lyrics as written by Serj Tankian Daron Malakian
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