"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.
White Light
Mission classified
Neural Probe
Map your mind TARGET
Run the maze my loyal pet
Recall your orders and the rest forget
YOU ARE CLOSE
So close to the perfect crime
A human bullet in a chambered mind
An appetite for profanity
Everything you were made to be
Fracturing the pristine mind
Crack the shell and reach inside
Manipulating all we find to do or die
Conflict borne of man-machines
Solidifies our chosen scheme
It's so much more than what it seems behind your eyes
White Light
Falling Star
The you you knew is now the slave you are DANCING
To a dirge that sings within
A waltz of damage just beneath the skin
RHYTHMIC DEATH
Death tapped out by your puppet toes
Another current in the undertow
Below the waves we weave the curse
To drown the world, choke the earth
Assembling the fractured mind
Puzzle equals suicide
Create the killer from inside
Some dreams must die
Slaughtering ability
Bred in you through trickery
Surrender blindly, slake our greed
And stain the skies
DOMINATE - Until we hear their cries
DOMINATE - While they believe our lies
DOMINATE - Salt and twist the knife
DOMINATE - Until the wound is ripe
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
And still they trust their minds?
[Solo: BV - JG]
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
Mission classified
Neural Probe
Map your mind TARGET
Run the maze my loyal pet
Recall your orders and the rest forget
YOU ARE CLOSE
So close to the perfect crime
A human bullet in a chambered mind
An appetite for profanity
Everything you were made to be
Fracturing the pristine mind
Crack the shell and reach inside
Manipulating all we find to do or die
Conflict borne of man-machines
Solidifies our chosen scheme
It's so much more than what it seems behind your eyes
White Light
Falling Star
The you you knew is now the slave you are DANCING
To a dirge that sings within
A waltz of damage just beneath the skin
RHYTHMIC DEATH
Death tapped out by your puppet toes
Another current in the undertow
Below the waves we weave the curse
To drown the world, choke the earth
Assembling the fractured mind
Puzzle equals suicide
Create the killer from inside
Some dreams must die
Slaughtering ability
Bred in you through trickery
Surrender blindly, slake our greed
And stain the skies
DOMINATE - Until we hear their cries
DOMINATE - While they believe our lies
DOMINATE - Salt and twist the knife
DOMINATE - Until the wound is ripe
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
And still they trust their minds?
[Solo: BV - JG]
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
Lyrics submitted by Ninji-X
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