"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.
Ooh!
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizoprena
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Keep that pose it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizophrenia
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Keep that pose it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizophrenia
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Everytime it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
(Armageddon come alive!)
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
(Armageddon come alive!)
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizoprena
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Keep that pose it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizophrenia
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Keep that pose it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
There's a place where we can go now
where fucking is a show now.
Playing with your schizophrenia
then cut your genitalia.
Comes on once! Comes on twice!
Everytime it looks real nice!
We're coming here to warn you,
before we fucking whore you.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
In this world of make believe,
your children are sexualized.
What's so pretty, you and me
Armageddon come alive.
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
(Armageddon come alive!)
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
They're fucking! They're fucking!
They're fucking in front of me!
(Armageddon come alive!)
Lyrics submitted by xxsystemofadownxx
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Excellent song. So glad Scars are back together. Seems to be about the sexualization of society and the media.
It's an anti-porn song as far as i can tell. I mean, soad did violent pornography which was anti-porn, so it makes sense that scars decided to do one too. I think this song is especially geared at showing how porn is affecting kids and teens because he makes his voice sound kind of like a little kids voice when he says "they're fucking in front of me".
porn is a big freakin problem in our society and i thank scars on broadway for this song
I doubt this song is about antiporn I mean cmon daron writing a song about antiporn
Yeah I don't know if it's actually "anti" anything, it certainly seems that way, but for some reason I doubt it. Probably more of a statement or observation of what society is like. May tie in with their anti-hollywood idea of how fake everyone and everything is.