"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.
As the blade turns blood gushes forth
another murder to bag and number
I'll kill forever
until I die
brutality
a way of life
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns within the wound
Another body beaten
cut and stabbed
ligature marks
discovered after you've died
coroner had a difficult time determining cause of death
another one left for the insects, snakes and rats
As the blade turns, the soul forgot
nine years of death, left to rot
scattered dead from state to state
I cut and slash as I attack
a cornered victim soon to be
broken bones, a punctured eye
into the morgue cold and dead
into the morgue
cold
and dead
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns within the wound
As the blade turns you scream in pain
torturing a piece of meat
take out my anger
take out my hate
psychotic rage flows through my veins
locked away
inside your skin
a body
cut to pieces
one more goes unsolved
as the blade turns within the wound
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns
within the wound
another murder to bag and number
I'll kill forever
until I die
brutality
a way of life
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns within the wound
Another body beaten
cut and stabbed
ligature marks
discovered after you've died
coroner had a difficult time determining cause of death
another one left for the insects, snakes and rats
As the blade turns, the soul forgot
nine years of death, left to rot
scattered dead from state to state
I cut and slash as I attack
a cornered victim soon to be
broken bones, a punctured eye
into the morgue cold and dead
into the morgue
cold
and dead
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns within the wound
As the blade turns you scream in pain
torturing a piece of meat
take out my anger
take out my hate
psychotic rage flows through my veins
locked away
inside your skin
a body
cut to pieces
one more goes unsolved
as the blade turns within the wound
As the blade turns
as the soul burns
as the blade turns
within the wound
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As the Blade Turns Lyrics as written by Greg Gall Chris Barnes
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