"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.
This round caught the boiling points
Severed hands, dismembered body parts
I'll face the answer when I corner age thirteen
Flowers to remember the dead
I'll taste you to stain all of us to bury my hands
I'll scream from the top of the world
And hope you'll hear me
Leave me sour, leave me sour fulfilled
(Stiff aroused)
Leave me sour, leave me sour fulfilled
(Stiff aroused)
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Could have sworn that you’d run
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Severed hands, dismembered body parts
I'll face the answer when I corner age thirteen
Flowers to remember the dead
I'll taste you to stain all of us to bury my hands
I'll scream from the top of the world
And hope you'll hear me
Leave me sour, leave me sour fulfilled
(Stiff aroused)
Leave me sour, leave me sour fulfilled
(Stiff aroused)
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Farewell Nikki…
Could have sworn that you’d run
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Could have sworn that you’d fall
A beautiful girl
Whose smiles could cut me
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Shabutie, Shabutie, Shabutie
Yeah well I’m a disciple
Lyrics submitted by silentprophet
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Shabutie is a a term or praise used in the would of coheed and cambria, in the comics the Kilgannon kids maria and mathew say this alot when they're happy and excited. and we all must remember that at the time claudio was in the final writing stages of the story of bag online adventures, so i believe that this song is refering a happy time and a bad time, in our world claudio and nikki have broken up for what ever reason, so claudio reverses the name of the charecter to show how backwards and twisted she is, but hes yelling shabutie because hes not going to let himself be drug down by it.