"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 greater darkness, my mind’s possessed
Disillusioned, numb emptiness
No hope, I feel a paralyzing fear
No salvation faking control
Their coldness hurt me beyond belief
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
Blind my eyes, I hate the light
Despair, frustration, regret
Fighting, fighting for what?
Lies, your lies, I feel dead inside
My pain is all I leave behind
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
A shadow the only light I followed
Transparent I am like, like a ghost
A far cry from whom I wanted to be
I never found my place, my place nor peace
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
Disillusioned, numb emptiness
No hope, I feel a paralyzing fear
No salvation faking control
Their coldness hurt me beyond belief
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
Blind my eyes, I hate the light
Despair, frustration, regret
Fighting, fighting for what?
Lies, your lies, I feel dead inside
My pain is all I leave behind
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
A shadow the only light I followed
Transparent I am like, like a ghost
A far cry from whom I wanted to be
I never found my place, my place nor peace
Dominus beo spiritus
Will I burn, will I be free?
The great darkness consumed my soul
Diabolus libero spiritus
Lyrics submitted by clintmman_47
The Great Darkness Lyrics as written by Christopher Amott Angela Gossow
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Dominus Beo Spiritus can be translated as: Master To bless Breath Diabolus Libero Spiritus can be translated as: Devil To set free Breath
I'm guessing Spiritus can also mean spirit.
great song, the short little solo at 3:44 is amazing, and Diabolus...I dont think means Devil because the album from Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli litterally means One Chosen By The Devil.
Don't forget that in latin there is no word order. Dominus beo spiritus = to bless the master's spirit Diabolus Libero Spiritus = To free the devil's spirit/spirit of the devil
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