"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.
Go!!
This ain't a test, fuck the rest
Time to set the record straight
Talk your shit, behind my back
Let's hear you say it to my face
I've heard the words fall out your lips
You little trendy fucking bitch
The time has come to get you some
Cause I just do not give a shit
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
See to me your just a cancer
Motherfucker war is the answer
As of now the end begins
I want to laugh but there's no joke
To eat with beasts
And run with the wolves
On the ashes you must choke
I know it's got to chap your ass
To think I just won't go away
Effects me not, I'm writing you off
I've got nothing more to say
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
See to me your just a cancer
Motherfucker war is the answer
Get some
You want to disrespect me
you little fucking punk?
Everything I've done
To be who I am
As far as I've fucking come
I'll slap you so fucking hard
It'll feel like you kissed a freight train
Fuck you
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
Talk your shit behind my back
See to me your just a cancer
The time has come to get you some
Motherfucker war is the answer
This ain't a test, fuck the rest
Time to set the record straight
Talk your shit, behind my back
Let's hear you say it to my face
I've heard the words fall out your lips
You little trendy fucking bitch
The time has come to get you some
Cause I just do not give a shit
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
See to me your just a cancer
Motherfucker war is the answer
As of now the end begins
I want to laugh but there's no joke
To eat with beasts
And run with the wolves
On the ashes you must choke
I know it's got to chap your ass
To think I just won't go away
Effects me not, I'm writing you off
I've got nothing more to say
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
See to me your just a cancer
Motherfucker war is the answer
Get some
You want to disrespect me
you little fucking punk?
Everything I've done
To be who I am
As far as I've fucking come
I'll slap you so fucking hard
It'll feel like you kissed a freight train
Fuck you
Do you take me for a fool?
How's it feel to be a tool?
Talk your shit behind my back
See to me your just a cancer
The time has come to get you some
Motherfucker war is the answer
Lyrics submitted by Sonic Raider
War Is the Answer Lyrics as written by Jason Hook Ivan Moody
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I'm probalby wrong, but to me it sounds like the song is calling out all those who hate on FFDP and telling them that they're here to stay, so they can just go fuck off. im probably way off, but thats just vibe it gives me. If u think about it in that way, most of the lyrics make sense with that idea
yea dude thats a good call