"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.
say i have no soul
say i have no name
you will rot and die you will rot and die
i will stay the same
for many centuries
centuries alone we are
in the future we are made of tar
say i have no name
you will rot and die you will rot and die
i will stay the same
for many centuries
centuries alone we are
in the future we are made of tar
Lyrics submitted by mortuary, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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Where did you got this lyrics from? there's no signing in the song!
wrong title
it isnt the wrong title, the wrong title is "pacman dies" i msged cc about it and they told me the real title is "too young too black to live" and there is an instrumental demo that leaked which i have and is on youtube, and one with the lyrics which isnt released yett, but these are the lyrics. hopefully it will be released someone this year.
xx
well he told me it was called"Too Strong Too Black Too Live"...idk! hey do you have that song with lyrics? if you do please send it to me! i have you in AIM! its "downtownla12"
thanks
too strong too black to live might be the real name of another leaked demo which is "pacman dies 2 (pacman breath)" (wrong title)
and no, i dont have them with the lyrics, because they didnt release them with the lyrics yet. i only know that it might be on their next album. along with seed, why do you cry everytime i fuck you, exoskeleton, yes no, and other demos with lyrics. their next album is coming out april 2009, so we wont know for sure until then.
xx
do you have that mp3? or any link to where i could listen to it?
minefieldz.webs.com/Crystal%20Castles%20-%20Pa.mp3 that's an mp3 to the instrumental version. does anyone have the lyric version? D: i would deeply appreciate it. email me @ collin3258@aim.com if you have it, please. or AIM me at collin3258.
it wasnt released yet and hasnt leaked it might be on the knightsEP this year
knights EP? do you by any chance know more about this, lol?
if you want to IM me, my s/n is collin3258
sometimes they sing these lyrics over through the hosiery/reckless in concert