"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.
Yeah, one quick move, exploding flesh and brain
Then a little move from a bleeding heart
Suddenly flames burning through your eyes
Bullet meet skull, meet the end of your life, yeah
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
Yeah, I spot a crack nearer on a jigsaw face
Blood and knuckles roar on a muzzle flash
Another day in hell and she's the same
The skull will punish all that will survive
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
Then a little move from a bleeding heart
Suddenly flames burning through your eyes
Bullet meet skull, meet the end of your life, yeah
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
Yeah, I spot a crack nearer on a jigsaw face
Blood and knuckles roar on a muzzle flash
Another day in hell and she's the same
The skull will punish all that will survive
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
In the war zone
I stand alone
In the war zone
I die alone
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
You can't see me
You can't stop me
You can't kill me
Lyrics submitted by gothic_hobbit
War Zone Lyrics as written by Rob Zombie John Lowery
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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