"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.
Accelerated by gravity
In this erupted dimension
Effulgent lights emanation
Geodesic dome disintegration absolute
Massive transition without radiation
Crossing the prohibited lines
Emitted
By meta stable levels
Exploring the gelatinous surfaces
Dynamic propulsion
Of my old system
With magnificent, convulsions
In the atomic crystal, reflections
Over the fatal status, tech-stone
Im an entity, collapsing in the time
Transforming the new voxel
Charged with tons of antimatter
Blasting the holes of obscurity
Blasting the holes
Absorbing the last cell in this unfavorable corporeality
Black density around and harsh molecular, unexplained phenomena, intolerance
intolerance!
Poisoning the universal matter, Gravity
Electromagnetism, and strong, Weak
Nuclear forces, are
An united entity, flow
Nuclear forces are a united!
I have to escape of this Euclidean space
Where I can test this fictitious impression of depth? impression of depth?
In this machine where the reversibility is non absolute
Krighsu! Krighsu! contemplates me
Krighsu! Krighsu! contemplates me
From the fissure
Trying to avoid thy intellectual encumbrance
Tons of oblate spheroids
Tons of oblate spheroids (gravity)
Rotating about the minor axis of this hole
Tried to find the area under the curve a paradoxical navigability
The number of vectors is equal to the dimension
A new geodesation operation under the influence of gravity
A solid cut off between two parallel planes
Charging the orifices with my own proton-electron mass ratio
Six billion light years away pulverizing the old plane
Beyond the confines of your single galaxy
Your eight-dimensional cosmos is right now succumbed
Virtually unlimited
In this erupted dimension
Effulgent lights emanation
Geodesic dome disintegration absolute
Massive transition without radiation
Crossing the prohibited lines
Emitted
By meta stable levels
Exploring the gelatinous surfaces
Dynamic propulsion
Of my old system
With magnificent, convulsions
In the atomic crystal, reflections
Over the fatal status, tech-stone
Im an entity, collapsing in the time
Transforming the new voxel
Charged with tons of antimatter
Blasting the holes of obscurity
Blasting the holes
Absorbing the last cell in this unfavorable corporeality
Black density around and harsh molecular, unexplained phenomena, intolerance
intolerance!
Poisoning the universal matter, Gravity
Electromagnetism, and strong, Weak
Nuclear forces, are
An united entity, flow
Nuclear forces are a united!
I have to escape of this Euclidean space
Where I can test this fictitious impression of depth? impression of depth?
In this machine where the reversibility is non absolute
Krighsu! Krighsu! contemplates me
Krighsu! Krighsu! contemplates me
From the fissure
Trying to avoid thy intellectual encumbrance
Tons of oblate spheroids
Tons of oblate spheroids (gravity)
Rotating about the minor axis of this hole
Tried to find the area under the curve a paradoxical navigability
The number of vectors is equal to the dimension
A new geodesation operation under the influence of gravity
A solid cut off between two parallel planes
Charging the orifices with my own proton-electron mass ratio
Six billion light years away pulverizing the old plane
Beyond the confines of your single galaxy
Your eight-dimensional cosmos is right now succumbed
Virtually unlimited
Lyrics submitted by DreamingInTheÆther
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