"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.
You're in my face
Now's the time and place
So say goodbye
Fuck with me, you die
Crush your soul
The reaper takes his toll
It's your last fight
Vengeance here tonight
Vengeance here tonight
You ignite the fire in me
It's too late for you to see
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
What's left to say
That's the price you pay
For what you did
Crush your severed head
Blood on the floor
What's left of you, no more
I've lost control
Hell's become my home
Hell's become my home
You ignite the fire in me
It's too late for you to see
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
All the lives I've lost
All the pain that dwells inside
Led my sole to rot
To the core
Now I'm a hollow shell
And I feel no remorse
I will be the harbinger
You will be the corpse
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
Revenge
Now's the time and place
So say goodbye
Fuck with me, you die
Crush your soul
The reaper takes his toll
It's your last fight
Vengeance here tonight
Vengeance here tonight
You ignite the fire in me
It's too late for you to see
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
What's left to say
That's the price you pay
For what you did
Crush your severed head
Blood on the floor
What's left of you, no more
I've lost control
Hell's become my home
Hell's become my home
You ignite the fire in me
It's too late for you to see
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
All the lives I've lost
All the pain that dwells inside
Led my sole to rot
To the core
Now I'm a hollow shell
And I feel no remorse
I will be the harbinger
You will be the corpse
This is the end
For you my friend
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
I won't back down
Not then, not now
You pushed me to the edge and now I will get my revenge
Revenge
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My Revenge Lyrics as written by Eric Favot
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