"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.
My head of metal is digging my own hole
I don't like it like that who likes to fall
Let's take a hammer and destroy everything around
Once the rage out still things aren't the way we want
The pressure always of never being good enough
Fff off I am running on my metal horse
A knight in the night there's only one thing I wanna do
Dancing in the dark when no one is talking to you
Let's take a record play it loud and fool around
Sweat it out and get lost into the sound
Let's take a record play it loud and fool around
Sweat it out and get lost into the sound
Metalhead
I don't like it like that who likes to fall
Let's take a hammer and destroy everything around
Once the rage out still things aren't the way we want
The pressure always of never being good enough
Fff off I am running on my metal horse
A knight in the night there's only one thing I wanna do
Dancing in the dark when no one is talking to you
Let's take a record play it loud and fool around
Sweat it out and get lost into the sound
Let's take a record play it loud and fool around
Sweat it out and get lost into the sound
Metalhead
Lyrics submitted by martinkorben
Metalhead Lyrics as written by Pascal Richard Marcel Ghislain Gabriel Caroline Herve
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I think it’s about a thick headed slow person who messes up all the time and she realizes It and doesn’t like it . Then they tend to be destructive outside and once they do that everything is still not the way they wanted it. The pressure of not being good enough ( seems like the person is made to feel she’s not good enough) that’s an abusive environment which starts the cycle . Telling someone they are not good enough is abuse and then when in turn she gets destructive she’ sbusive. Both are abusive.
She needs to be rescued from that relationship but nobody’s there so she says To hell with everything I am own Knight . Doesn’t want to talk to anyone . SHe wants to do her own thing
I feel the metalhead refers to the needle of the record player (poss referring to her work as well as later in song, let’s play records etc).
Love the song.