"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.
Council black answers leading through suicide's curtain.
Darkness, answer for this pain I feel.
Slivers in my life appeal to this awakening.
Death, I am drowning in pain.
Constrict the treading.
Pull me underwater deeper until my back floats to the top,
Circled with chalk, bloated, and drifting along into nothingness.
(I close my eyes to better listen.
I think I hear you) Whisper "Slit wrists!"
To explain the deep worthlessness inside of my time spent here waiting.
Bridge this pain to your shore across this vast sunless funeral ocean of nothing,
Drowning in its currents.
Drown me in its currents.
Murder Savior, murder you're my savior, Murder Savior.
I into you confide intimate suicide,
I've lost my mind behind this parasite.
This life and I collide into thought genocide.
(Tighten the knot!)
Then kick me off the chair a dangled sightless stare.
Hang here, I wait for fate to free me of despair.
My council soon arrives,
Conquest by suicide,
My will is high, to die,
These bounds untied.
Darkness surrounding,
Death, I am drowning!
Darkness surrounding,
Death, I am drowning!
Darkness, answer for this pain I feel.
Slivers in my life appeal to this awakening.
Death, I am drowning in pain.
Constrict the treading.
Pull me underwater deeper until my back floats to the top,
Circled with chalk, bloated, and drifting along into nothingness.
(I close my eyes to better listen.
I think I hear you) Whisper "Slit wrists!"
To explain the deep worthlessness inside of my time spent here waiting.
Bridge this pain to your shore across this vast sunless funeral ocean of nothing,
Drowning in its currents.
Drown me in its currents.
Murder Savior, murder you're my savior, Murder Savior.
I into you confide intimate suicide,
I've lost my mind behind this parasite.
This life and I collide into thought genocide.
(Tighten the knot!)
Then kick me off the chair a dangled sightless stare.
Hang here, I wait for fate to free me of despair.
My council soon arrives,
Conquest by suicide,
My will is high, to die,
These bounds untied.
Darkness surrounding,
Death, I am drowning!
Darkness surrounding,
Death, I am drowning!
Lyrics submitted by Tallant
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I love this band and all, but christ those are some angsty fucking lyrics.
"Death, I am drowning in pain"?
they're going crazy
This is such an awesome song. I think it might just be about another bad acid trip like the White Light.
The White Light is about an ice pick lobotomy. Get your facts straight.
baaayyaaad ass song