"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.
Wise men have come to seal our fate
Salvation they'd bring to free northern lande
Pray to our Lorde now, ye all shalle be sav'd
Or taste the steeledrawn by our sanctified hands
Forefather's wisdom, oh Runatyr's rites
The tales of the hammer, now witchery's sighs
Elderly feasts, heretical lore
They fear anciente symbols, the greate runes of years
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
[Solo]
Wise men have come to seal our fate
Salvation they'd bring, we all shalle be sav'd
Forces of darknesse have pav'd all their ways
Conversion by violence, now a foreign god we praise
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
[Solo]
I am The Lorde, thy God
(Hallow'd be thy name)
Thou shalt have no other gods before me
(Thy Kingdome come)
For I, The Lorde, thy God am a jealous god
(Hallow'd be thy name)
And The Lorde will not hold him guiltless
that taketh his name in vain
(Thy Kingdome come)
I'll show mercy unto them that keepe my commandments
(Thy will be done)
Art thou willing to praise me?
(Yes, Master...!)
(Deliver us from evil)
(Hallow'd be thy name)
...for thine is the kingdome
the power and the glory...
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
Salvation they'd bring to free northern lande
Pray to our Lorde now, ye all shalle be sav'd
Or taste the steeledrawn by our sanctified hands
Forefather's wisdom, oh Runatyr's rites
The tales of the hammer, now witchery's sighs
Elderly feasts, heretical lore
They fear anciente symbols, the greate runes of years
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
[Solo]
Wise men have come to seal our fate
Salvation they'd bring, we all shalle be sav'd
Forces of darknesse have pav'd all their ways
Conversion by violence, now a foreign god we praise
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
[Solo]
I am The Lorde, thy God
(Hallow'd be thy name)
Thou shalt have no other gods before me
(Thy Kingdome come)
For I, The Lorde, thy God am a jealous god
(Hallow'd be thy name)
And The Lorde will not hold him guiltless
that taketh his name in vain
(Thy Kingdome come)
I'll show mercy unto them that keepe my commandments
(Thy will be done)
Art thou willing to praise me?
(Yes, Master...!)
(Deliver us from evil)
(Hallow'd be thy name)
...for thine is the kingdome
the power and the glory...
Hell, damnation
The saviour's on his way
Hell and fire
The holy cross shalle burn down to hell
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
We will never resign to the holy cross
Never bow down to their Lorde
We'll never defect to the holy cross
The hammer's our guide
We'll never kneele down to the cross
Lyrics submitted by Afterburn
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