"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.
It's not who I am, my name nor number
It's how I use it and what I do
Came to break the spell you're under
Remain to your instincts true
It's not a sin to take what you want
You only fall with self restrain
Loose the guilt that your world haunt
I take away your pain
Don't care what is being written
Piss on what is being preached
Like the snake mesmerize the kitten
Rip the priest head off - don' need that leech
Came to give you all you wanted
Hear my truth
Star that fell to shed a light
Over elder and youth
Never listened to no god's answers
Scars to proof
Desolate cast out and risen
Cloven hoof
Hear the church bell rings
As the angels sings
All they brings for the eternally jinxed
And kings is mere dead insects wings
Lost control of creation
Corruption, intimidation
God is just a bitter pig
Who carries pure black hate
Can you see the genius in uttermost ferociousness?
Ruthless you say I say charity judgment defeats you
God bless
knives oh Christ carves "love" in your flesh
Darkness of heaven a bottomless pit
Loose your soul and walk though life dead
God replaced it with a piece of shit
Cloven hoof
Grab on to the vision
Hate through attrition
The shit in your life that
Makes you wish you'd die
Crush the oppression
With ruthless
Aggression
Remember I'm
Right even
When I lie.
It's how I use it and what I do
Came to break the spell you're under
Remain to your instincts true
It's not a sin to take what you want
You only fall with self restrain
Loose the guilt that your world haunt
I take away your pain
Don't care what is being written
Piss on what is being preached
Like the snake mesmerize the kitten
Rip the priest head off - don' need that leech
Came to give you all you wanted
Hear my truth
Star that fell to shed a light
Over elder and youth
Never listened to no god's answers
Scars to proof
Desolate cast out and risen
Cloven hoof
Hear the church bell rings
As the angels sings
All they brings for the eternally jinxed
And kings is mere dead insects wings
Lost control of creation
Corruption, intimidation
God is just a bitter pig
Who carries pure black hate
Can you see the genius in uttermost ferociousness?
Ruthless you say I say charity judgment defeats you
God bless
knives oh Christ carves "love" in your flesh
Darkness of heaven a bottomless pit
Loose your soul and walk though life dead
God replaced it with a piece of shit
Cloven hoof
Grab on to the vision
Hate through attrition
The shit in your life that
Makes you wish you'd die
Crush the oppression
With ruthless
Aggression
Remember I'm
Right even
When I lie.
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