"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.
Amongst mountains and sacred fields
of the havoc of the evil gods
a ferocious forged empire guards
mystical altars and monopoliths
heralds of primitive evil powers
prayers of chaos and hate
rituals of perpetual darkened servitude
conquering of gods supremacy
ceremonial flesh desecration
spirits of fire unleashed
Descendants of enemies hatred blood
ancestral armies clash
vindication of the tyrant enthroned
impaler of nations conquered
ethereal monarch of victorious chaos
of festivals of blazing purification
enchanting of pure vengeful spells
ageless souls of vengeance rejoiced
upon massacred civilizations
remains the divine earth
[chorus:]
Genocide empowers the tyrant
enduring chaotic strenght
conquering legions of the ancient pillages
march on thru eternity
[repeat chorus]
of the havoc of the evil gods
a ferocious forged empire guards
mystical altars and monopoliths
heralds of primitive evil powers
prayers of chaos and hate
rituals of perpetual darkened servitude
conquering of gods supremacy
ceremonial flesh desecration
spirits of fire unleashed
Descendants of enemies hatred blood
ancestral armies clash
vindication of the tyrant enthroned
impaler of nations conquered
ethereal monarch of victorious chaos
of festivals of blazing purification
enchanting of pure vengeful spells
ageless souls of vengeance rejoiced
upon massacred civilizations
remains the divine earth
[chorus:]
Genocide empowers the tyrant
enduring chaotic strenght
conquering legions of the ancient pillages
march on thru eternity
[repeat chorus]
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