"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.
Unconquered
Life is born of agony's strain
Manifested in suffering
Most live crippled by fear,
I'd rather walk it off on bloody stumps until I've bled dry
Yeah, we're all gonna die
[Chorus]
You brand it a crisis
I name it an honor
To face what arises
To remain unconquered
All the worst that I feared has come to pass
And despair is in an endless supply
I dug my way to bottom of the bloody truth
Buried beneath a spotless lie
I'm sworn to stay the course that I alone have chosen
Because we're all gonna die
[Chorus]
I'm cauterized
I'm cauterized
I'm gonna heat the blade (Unconquered)
I'm gonna ride this pain (Unconquered)
Life's a fatal disease without a cure
But as it kills me I'll stare right in it's eye
There's no way out
I'm sworn to stay the course that I alone have chosen
There's no way out
So how will you die?
[Chorus]
There's no way out
There's no way out
Unconquered
There's no way out
There's no way out
Unconquered
Life is born of agony's strain
Manifested in suffering
Most live crippled by fear,
I'd rather walk it off on bloody stumps until I've bled dry
Yeah, we're all gonna die
[Chorus]
You brand it a crisis
I name it an honor
To face what arises
To remain unconquered
All the worst that I feared has come to pass
And despair is in an endless supply
I dug my way to bottom of the bloody truth
Buried beneath a spotless lie
I'm sworn to stay the course that I alone have chosen
Because we're all gonna die
[Chorus]
I'm cauterized
I'm cauterized
I'm gonna heat the blade (Unconquered)
I'm gonna ride this pain (Unconquered)
Life's a fatal disease without a cure
But as it kills me I'll stare right in it's eye
There's no way out
I'm sworn to stay the course that I alone have chosen
There's no way out
So how will you die?
[Chorus]
There's no way out
There's no way out
Unconquered
There's no way out
There's no way out
Unconquered
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
Invictus Lyrics as written by David Randall Blythe Chris Adler
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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