"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 speakeasy parlor was filled with many a fair lady,
Fallen victim to another mind rape by their Christian fathers.
"It was never easy to show them I loved them,"
He said as He was removed from the booth.
No one had the time to listen to Him,
They don't care!
It wasn't His thing to talk like that,
Waking up the next day
In a nightmare of a grey colored room full of friends
With no names and metal as cold as, as cold as hell.
This was yet another favorite of His,
Concious effort was put into everything that He didn't do
And everything else was a failed plan.
Why didn't this work!?
Why didn't this work?!
If only gratitude could get you somewhere.
If only gratitude could get you somewhere!
Censor His bleeding hands, broken teeth and blood-red hair.
This is His love to them all.
Yet another day blessed with His presence!
Continue to beat Him, this is His love!
Censor His bleeding hands, broken teeth and blood-red hair.
This is His love.
Not another day blessed with His presence!
Continue to beat Him, this is His love!
Coughing up His mother's love all over a plate of refurbished organisms,
This is His love!
Coughing up His mother's love all over a plate of refurbished organisms,
This is His love!
Oh Mother Mary, forgive them, for they have won.
They have won!
Oh Mother Mary, forgive them, for they have won.
They have won!
Spoken fast enough to spark a memory into everyone's tired mind!
Built upon a cross of clothes and thorns of wrinkled scarves,
And hung from a ceiling, and sent to every child's living room.
Built upon a cross of clothes and thorns of wrinkled scarves,
And hung from a ceiling, and sent to every child's living room!
Depictions of life as told by a subdued body within us all.
We aren't loved anymore.
Behold, the white whore.
Fallen victim to another mind rape by their Christian fathers.
"It was never easy to show them I loved them,"
He said as He was removed from the booth.
No one had the time to listen to Him,
They don't care!
It wasn't His thing to talk like that,
Waking up the next day
In a nightmare of a grey colored room full of friends
With no names and metal as cold as, as cold as hell.
This was yet another favorite of His,
Concious effort was put into everything that He didn't do
And everything else was a failed plan.
Why didn't this work!?
Why didn't this work?!
If only gratitude could get you somewhere.
If only gratitude could get you somewhere!
Censor His bleeding hands, broken teeth and blood-red hair.
This is His love to them all.
Yet another day blessed with His presence!
Continue to beat Him, this is His love!
Censor His bleeding hands, broken teeth and blood-red hair.
This is His love.
Not another day blessed with His presence!
Continue to beat Him, this is His love!
Coughing up His mother's love all over a plate of refurbished organisms,
This is His love!
Coughing up His mother's love all over a plate of refurbished organisms,
This is His love!
Oh Mother Mary, forgive them, for they have won.
They have won!
Oh Mother Mary, forgive them, for they have won.
They have won!
Spoken fast enough to spark a memory into everyone's tired mind!
Built upon a cross of clothes and thorns of wrinkled scarves,
And hung from a ceiling, and sent to every child's living room.
Built upon a cross of clothes and thorns of wrinkled scarves,
And hung from a ceiling, and sent to every child's living room!
Depictions of life as told by a subdued body within us all.
We aren't loved anymore.
Behold, the white whore.
Lyrics submitted by iLL Ronald
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i don't understand this song but it makes me want to dance
I wanna say it's about Jesus, but I'd probably be wrong.
Like a Jesus like figure. I dunno. It makes allusions to him, but then again it leads you to believe other things.
Like, a false saviour? Maybe, the tempting way evil grabs ahold of you.
I think it's about how Jesus died for us on the cross to show his love for us, but we don't really believe or love him, or we still do bad things even though we know he died for us?
When it says "It was never easy to show them I loved them" is him speaking, and "if only gratitude could get you somewhere"
And the part talking about the censorship, I think is about how he was burtally beaten but when you look at a statue of Jesus crucified it doesn't look that beaten up. And now we just hang up his cross like living room decoration.
I don't really get the white whore thing, but thats what I think it's talking about.
maybe they couldnt find another word to rhyme with "anymore" so they said whore?
lol. such a great song btw
i hear false idols, the real jesus&how they cleaned up the crucifixion [as stated by avengedunicorn], &how christians degrade the name of christ. the white whore = mary magdalene, possibly?
i agree with the whole Jesus thing.. and how on the cross he looks fine and cleaned up in all, but in reality (well if you believe in allt hat) he would have been all bloody and beaten up and then evryone just hangs up a cross as decoration, and the whole white whore thing could just be making reference to mary or the holy spirt or something?
i think this song is about jesus and how people dont apreciate what he did for us with the whole cross in the living room thing as a decoration, people have cleaned up the whole idea of jesus being beaten and getting the shit kicked out of him, why doesnt he have a huge gash in his face or something ya know? people precive him to be nailed comfterable up onn the cross like it was nothing. all he wanted to do was spread the love and no one would believe him or take him serious. we rely to much on seeing is believing. jesus lost the battle between everyone else (Oh Mother Mary, forgive them, for they have won. They have won!)
i think that the white whore is mary, yet she actually never had sex so it kinda betrays itself. she got knocked up by "god" i guess..
the only other thing i can think of why shes a whore is because she brought something so unreal into this world and that is looked at as something so complicated and confusing for people. when jesus was born that created the two sides of holy and unholy.. imagine what the world would be now if she never had a baby. that and it was never really a planned baby. they might be making it to be that god might have never made her have it, she could have been sneaking around her husbands back having sex giving into temptation.
-Mike
i dont think the whore is a chick, i think they're talking about jesus and how christianity is spoon-fed to children from the beginning of their lives, and how they censor all the violence of what actually happened, and not a failed plan. the crucifix or picture of jesus they see hanging in their bedrooms is cleaned up and "perfect", sort of like selling out. and since no one really listens or believes, jesus fucks everyone over, so behold, the white whore. just my interpretation
Umm Jesus didn't have broken teeth or blood red hair. Bleeding hands were right on though.
It's an amazing song. And his voice is crazy. Good crazy.
I don't think the song is about Jesus it's probably an epiphany or something you know.
Well that's what I think.