"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.
Slit throat sirens fill the air
With soundless shrieking songs
Of when you will be long forgotten
Can you see the grins of departed
That you had once betrayed
With your lie-filled eyes
Monolithic visions of every still moment that you've kept inside
The hallows of your shadow will haunt you until it completely devours you whole
Unworthy of this life that you've tainted in holding
The greatest sins in the highest
Shall go unforgiven
These failures once cast out
Have taken the form of a monster that wills
A foul release of hate
Abominations that you have created shall purge you of your innocence and
Faith as you are engulfed by the hands and strangled by the legions of damned
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Now cling to the chains that you've built
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Revealing truth in your lies
Holding you down by the weights of your falseness,
For all to see as they
Rip the bowels out from your mouth
Silencing your deception
Tear the flesh off of your bones
To drain your strength and
Feast on everything you are
The bringers of your end are here
And they are calling and they are waiting for you
For vengeance of your treachery
They live to burn you alive burn you alive
Traitor
You fucking traitor
There shall be justice when you burn alive
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Now cling to the chains that you've built
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened up
With soundless shrieking songs
Of when you will be long forgotten
Can you see the grins of departed
That you had once betrayed
With your lie-filled eyes
Monolithic visions of every still moment that you've kept inside
The hallows of your shadow will haunt you until it completely devours you whole
Unworthy of this life that you've tainted in holding
The greatest sins in the highest
Shall go unforgiven
These failures once cast out
Have taken the form of a monster that wills
A foul release of hate
Abominations that you have created shall purge you of your innocence and
Faith as you are engulfed by the hands and strangled by the legions of damned
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Now cling to the chains that you've built
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Revealing truth in your lies
Holding you down by the weights of your falseness,
For all to see as they
Rip the bowels out from your mouth
Silencing your deception
Tear the flesh off of your bones
To drain your strength and
Feast on everything you are
The bringers of your end are here
And they are calling and they are waiting for you
For vengeance of your treachery
They live to burn you alive burn you alive
Traitor
You fucking traitor
There shall be justice when you burn alive
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened
Now cling to the chains that you've built
Forsaken skies begin to burn
And the path of the damned shall be opened up
Lyrics submitted by XBeyondBirthdayX
Path of a Traitor Lyrics as written by Greg Donnelly John Abernathy
Lyrics © KILLPHONIC
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