"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 first step's so called education
next chapter is assimilation
We keep you pacified so you will follow
It's a stand in line conglomerate
in a bigot workshop mortuary
We keep you satisfied so you will swallow
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spinds a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
Sooth your sense till you're mine
Next we bring intimidation,
social status segregation
where you all justify & play consumer
fear works further toward division,
indiscriminate spastic decisions
we keep you paranoid, so you can't struggle
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spins a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
fill your pockets, now you're mine
And if you find a vein, I'll be the medicine
I'll be the medicine for you
Oh my love, only you, my love
We weave a tale of our stark heroics,
swaying the public from our bully pulpits
Create illusions for imperial schemes
poor against the poor for democracy
While we rape that word with a swift incision
snatch up the poverty to fill up the prisons
boost economy with perpetual war
and everything you buy only feeds us more!
(so just keep buying...)
next chapter is assimilation
We keep you pacified so you will follow
It's a stand in line conglomerate
in a bigot workshop mortuary
We keep you satisfied so you will swallow
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spinds a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
Sooth your sense till you're mine
Next we bring intimidation,
social status segregation
where you all justify & play consumer
fear works further toward division,
indiscriminate spastic decisions
we keep you paranoid, so you can't struggle
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spins a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
fill your pockets, now you're mine
And if you find a vein, I'll be the medicine
I'll be the medicine for you
Oh my love, only you, my love
We weave a tale of our stark heroics,
swaying the public from our bully pulpits
Create illusions for imperial schemes
poor against the poor for democracy
While we rape that word with a swift incision
snatch up the poverty to fill up the prisons
boost economy with perpetual war
and everything you buy only feeds us more!
(so just keep buying...)
Lyrics submitted by TrotsKeenSense
Tainted Wheat Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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