"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.
Human flesh
Open earth
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious,
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious,
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
Buried with your face down
You scream without sound
Broken bones won't heal you
Sympathy turns to laughter, laughter, laughter
(prick your fingers and bleed, give the poison to me)
Unearthed hands of solitude
All over me
Torn apart by this cold self incision
So let it bleed, let it bleed, let it bleed
Burial, burial, burial, burial
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
Open earth
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious,
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious,
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
Buried with your face down
You scream without sound
Broken bones won't heal you
Sympathy turns to laughter, laughter, laughter
(prick your fingers and bleed, give the poison to me)
Unearthed hands of solitude
All over me
Torn apart by this cold self incision
So let it bleed, let it bleed, let it bleed
Burial, burial, burial, burial
Prepare your burial, burial, burial
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
This body cold and contagious, This body cold and contagious
Lyrics submitted by grimmreaper212
The Casket of Roderic Usher Lyrics as written by Alejandro Martinez Linares Alejandro M. Linares
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hmmm yeah I read that the other day, fits right in with this song.
A lot of the new Finch stuff uses dark imagery like this, probably metaphorically. Although I can't see this Poe story being used in that way