"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.
Tank treads crushing over piles of broken bones
Siege engine revving and coming to atone
Poisonous black smoke billows from its eyes
Unholy war machine can't be compromised
Fueled by the corpses feted fleshed
Never turning back forward to the death
Its only mission is killing everything
It's the shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine
So inhuman you don't speak its name
Its artillery sets the world aflame
Mechanical demon rolling 'cross the sand
Blood stained thing scorching black the holy land
Skin made of iron, heart made of steel
Lubricated by the blood beneath its wheels
Reclaiming the world for its king
It's the shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine!
Siege engine revving and coming to atone
Poisonous black smoke billows from its eyes
Unholy war machine can't be compromised
Fueled by the corpses feted fleshed
Never turning back forward to the death
Its only mission is killing everything
It's the shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine
So inhuman you don't speak its name
Its artillery sets the world aflame
Mechanical demon rolling 'cross the sand
Blood stained thing scorching black the holy land
Skin made of iron, heart made of steel
Lubricated by the blood beneath its wheels
Reclaiming the world for its king
It's the shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine
Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine!
Lyrics submitted by stickyshooZ
Shovel Headed Kill Machine Lyrics as written by Gary Holt
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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