"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.
Crushing all your worthless goals
I define control
Your pain's my fucking ecstasy
So putrid is my world of tyranny
Accentuate your desperation
Flesh from bone, I'll rip and tear
I hate the fact
That we breathe the same air
Helpless, as I dominate
I won't celebrate
Until you've all been crucified
I can not rest 'til everyone has died
I can't stand the victim in you
Infecting everything that I do
I will eradicate
Obliterate, depopulate
Divine, atrocious suffering
Cleansation of the weak, supremacy
Pissing on your faith
Incinerate God's whore
Perpetual is my reign
I will eat your soul
Must maintain control of the weak
Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free
Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free
Must maintain control of the weak
I define control
Your pain's my fucking ecstasy
So putrid is my world of tyranny
Accentuate your desperation
Flesh from bone, I'll rip and tear
I hate the fact
That we breathe the same air
Helpless, as I dominate
I won't celebrate
Until you've all been crucified
I can not rest 'til everyone has died
I can't stand the victim in you
Infecting everything that I do
I will eradicate
Obliterate, depopulate
Divine, atrocious suffering
Cleansation of the weak, supremacy
Pissing on your faith
Incinerate God's whore
Perpetual is my reign
I will eat your soul
Must maintain control of the weak
Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free
Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free
Must maintain control of the weak
Lyrics submitted by iamthenightstars
Supremist Lyrics as written by Kerry King Dave Lombardo
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave
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