"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.
Don't wanna hear your voice
Don't really know if I have a choice
Don't wanna be the one that makes you forget
You're choking on the brain
You're choking again
Don't think we ever met
Don't think you offered up a god given name
Who did the talking, man the whip on the chain?
You've got pleasure from the seconds of pain
But then they get you with the burden of shame
The true measure if the one that remains
Don't wanna
Don't wanna be your pain
Don't wanna be your pain baby
Don't wanna be your pain
Don't wanna be your pain baby
Don't wanna be your pain
I live in a concrete cell,
No soul is dead until we create a ??? mind
She ? the exact time
She ?
And take the young boy's lip
She loves to see him crawl up the chamber wall
?
And with the eyes you covered
Like a ? hovered
?
And when they scream no more
She doesn't care for one more
Won't let you kill me just yet
Don't even care if there's a price on my head
Don't wanna wind up in a blood?
Don't wanna be your,
Don't wanna be your chain
Don't wanna be your chain baby
Don't wanna be your chain
I said, I don't, don't
I don't wanna be you chain
Don't really know if I have a choice
Don't wanna be the one that makes you forget
You're choking on the brain
You're choking again
Don't think we ever met
Don't think you offered up a god given name
Who did the talking, man the whip on the chain?
You've got pleasure from the seconds of pain
But then they get you with the burden of shame
The true measure if the one that remains
Don't wanna
Don't wanna be your pain
Don't wanna be your pain baby
Don't wanna be your pain
Don't wanna be your pain baby
Don't wanna be your pain
I live in a concrete cell,
No soul is dead until we create a ??? mind
She ? the exact time
She ?
And take the young boy's lip
She loves to see him crawl up the chamber wall
?
And with the eyes you covered
Like a ? hovered
?
And when they scream no more
She doesn't care for one more
Won't let you kill me just yet
Don't even care if there's a price on my head
Don't wanna wind up in a blood?
Don't wanna be your,
Don't wanna be your chain
Don't wanna be your chain baby
Don't wanna be your chain
I said, I don't, don't
I don't wanna be you chain
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Whip and Chain Lyrics as written by Alien Jourgensen Al Jourgensen
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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