"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.
A long way from our home
Destined to roam
Where the sun won't shine
Under silver moon
Wandering through woods
Where life still exists
Prisoner of Ring
Evil from within
Guiding our way
Like a crawling worm
A slave of Evil Supreme
Again he must obey
Entering a new world
Of the skeletal trees
The valley of the withering flowers
Once a Tower of Moon
Now in a darkened room
The one with poison breath
The King of the City of Death
Carrying his crown of steel
Through thousand years of war
Where the shadows lie
All the beauty must die
Wow long we have to suffer?
The army under the Ring
They rised their banners for Him
A fiery God in sorrow
Haunting blood red eye
Ruling the distant sky
The symbol of our Doom
At the end of the stairs
The Wicked Mother is waiting
There's no way to turn back
We must face what we fear
Stare in the eyes of Terror
Into sunrise it will end
Under the starlight we will sleep eternally
Hearing the whispers from the sea
And now when the new day takes the pain
We are free there is no more to tell
"Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul
ash nazg thrakatuluk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
Destined to roam
Where the sun won't shine
Under silver moon
Wandering through woods
Where life still exists
Prisoner of Ring
Evil from within
Guiding our way
Like a crawling worm
A slave of Evil Supreme
Again he must obey
Entering a new world
Of the skeletal trees
The valley of the withering flowers
Once a Tower of Moon
Now in a darkened room
The one with poison breath
The King of the City of Death
Carrying his crown of steel
Through thousand years of war
Where the shadows lie
All the beauty must die
Wow long we have to suffer?
The army under the Ring
They rised their banners for Him
A fiery God in sorrow
Haunting blood red eye
Ruling the distant sky
The symbol of our Doom
At the end of the stairs
The Wicked Mother is waiting
There's no way to turn back
We must face what we fear
Stare in the eyes of Terror
Into sunrise it will end
Under the starlight we will sleep eternally
Hearing the whispers from the sea
And now when the new day takes the pain
We are free there is no more to tell
"Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul
ash nazg thrakatuluk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
Lyrics submitted by LaDiablo
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My 2 cents.
Cirith Ungol is a place in Lord of the Rings, and this song is about the hobbits, Frodo and Sam, journeying through mordor.. Everything single reference in this song is a reference to the Lord of the Rings trilogy!<br /> <br />
Oi, I have since found that out. I guess I fail, then XD
@TOOLrule3 The album cover is a painting of Goya called Witches' Sabbath.