"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.
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think the primary purpose of your life, of my life and the entirety of the human race's is just to blindingly consume to support a failing economy and a faulty system. forever and ever until we run out of every resource and have to resort to blowing each other up to ensure our own survival. I don't think we're supposed to sit by idle while we continue to use a long outdated system that produces war, poverty, collusion, corruption, ruins our environment and threatens every aspect of our health and does nothing but divide and segregate us. I don't think how much military equipment we are selling to other countries, how many hydrocarbons we're burning, how much money is being printed and exchanged, is a good measure of how healthy our society is but I do think I can speak for everyone when I say, we're sick of this shit.
Time to mobilize
Time to open eyes
We are not a quiet pocket of resistance
This is real, but we cannot afford to fail
Act with, act with persistence
This is real, but we cannot afford to fail
Army, establish order
Respect me and fear me
Fuck you
We have no respect
And when tomorrow comes
We're gonna stamp on your head (pig)
Whoa, woah
Calm down, (calm down mate), calm the fuck down
Gandhi mate, remember gandhi (jesus, just remember)
Alright, alright I'm fine
See if we keep them silent then,
They'll resort to violence and that's how we criminalize change
Awhhhh,
Yabba dabba do one son, we don't want you rules
Who you fooling son, we've got all the tools
We need to build a whole new system
To correct these flaws
(you know what), I've already listed them
You're a communist
You're a fucking utopianist
Ah here they come, the immersive labels
But they're attempted fails
Cos man, we so far out your comfort zone
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, we think, we begin to revive
We begin to revive
Put a call out to the frontline
Get the message out to the the contact squad
Transmit emergency frequencies
Put a call out to the frontline
Get the message out to the the contact squad
Put a call out, put a call out, put a call ouuuuut
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Piece
By
Piece
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Time to mobilize
Time to open eyes
We are not a quiet pocket of resistance
This is real, but we cannot afford to fail
Act with, act with persistence
This is real, but we cannot afford to fail
Army, establish order
Respect me and fear me
Fuck you
We have no respect
And when tomorrow comes
We're gonna stamp on your head (pig)
Whoa, woah
Calm down, (calm down mate), calm the fuck down
Gandhi mate, remember gandhi (jesus, just remember)
Alright, alright I'm fine
See if we keep them silent then,
They'll resort to violence and that's how we criminalize change
Awhhhh,
Yabba dabba do one son, we don't want you rules
Who you fooling son, we've got all the tools
We need to build a whole new system
To correct these flaws
(you know what), I've already listed them
You're a communist
You're a fucking utopianist
Ah here they come, the immersive labels
But they're attempted fails
Cos man, we so far out your comfort zone
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, we think, we begin to revive
We begin to revive
Put a call out to the frontline
Get the message out to the the contact squad
Transmit emergency frequencies
Put a call out to the frontline
Get the message out to the the contact squad
Put a call out, put a call out, put a call ouuuuut
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Piece
By
Piece
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
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Gandhi Mate, Gandhi Lyrics as written by Liam Rory Clewlow Chris Batten
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I think these lyrics speak for themselves.. so powerful and so true.
Just a few small mistakes: "resource and fall to the result to blowing" is "resource and have to resort to blowing" "to sit by either while" - "to sit by idle while" "Army, establish order" - "I am the established order" "We have no respect" - "We hold no respect" "We don't want you rules"- "We don't want your rules" "(You know what)" - "(Yeh like what?)" "Ah here they come, the immersive labels" - "There come the emotive labels" "But they're attempted fails" - "But their attempt just fails"
Huh.. The song seems as if there are two speakers.. The shifting of contradicting lines being shouted and all that
Anyway, great song