"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.
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
That I might reach
Straight for your throat
This is madness
Will we not be satisfied
Until we sit drenched in each other's blood?
The shame of only two appalling options:
A taker of life, or a dead man
This is why the wives, the mothers, and children are mourning
Love, as vital to life
As blood to heart
Conquers pain
Lest death intrudes by means of its
Flawed emissary, man
On this day, saints will be sinners
There will be no victors, only bereaved
This is why we mourn
Leaving the world blind, eye after eye
Disease inhabits the environs
Famine feeds our gardens
Flesh is predisposed to die
Death needs no aide
We bear blood to where we rest
And still we are not sleepless
And we will live such tragedy in perpetuity
Her loved one is dead
His loved one is dead
My loved one is dead
Your loved one is dead
This is a tragedy
Take my arms that I might reach you
That I might reach
Straight for your throat
This is madness
Will we not be satisfied
Until we sit drenched in each other's blood?
The shame of only two appalling options:
A taker of life, or a dead man
This is why the wives, the mothers, and children are mourning
Love, as vital to life
As blood to heart
Conquers pain
Lest death intrudes by means of its
Flawed emissary, man
On this day, saints will be sinners
There will be no victors, only bereaved
This is why we mourn
Leaving the world blind, eye after eye
Disease inhabits the environs
Famine feeds our gardens
Flesh is predisposed to die
Death needs no aide
We bear blood to where we rest
And still we are not sleepless
And we will live such tragedy in perpetuity
Her loved one is dead
His loved one is dead
My loved one is dead
Your loved one is dead
This is a tragedy
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Ending the Perpetual Tragedy Lyrics as written by Matthew Fletcher Geert Van Der Velde
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Great version of a great song,
the missing part
the stillness of a corpse is unnerving, it is the physical form of death, the air is cold, and im sure someone somewhere is laughing. i am colder than the air, my heart is deeper than an ocean, it's pain is focused, a focus as brutal of the stillness of a corpse, on this day let them all be unnerved as the blood of the dead mixes with the blood of the gouging of my eyes, the truest tragedy complete and in perpetuity, as this is the world of imbisiles who thirst for blood, blind as bats. There are no more lessons to be learned, man unlearns wisdom as swiftly as it digs it's own grave, if you must dig, let it dig for itself,i will bury the corpses of those that would bury mine, withdowned by the loved, let the blood of my own eyes mixes with the blood of mankind, it will cleanse the world, the scorth is jet blood, it will cleanse the world this is a tragedy when a loved one is dead
i will bury the corpses
of those that would bury mine
this is a tragedy.
It will clense the world It will clense the world
THIS IS A TRAGEDY
our hearts mourn
This scorched, jet blood; it will cleanse the world.
I also love the kudos to Hearts Once Nourished at the end of this song...if these hands would only kill.
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"A taker of life, of a dead man." that line is "The takers of life or dead men" Basically saying the only options we have left is to kill everyone or kill ourselves because we're so messed up.
Such a powerful ending to the anthem album of our dying world.