"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.
When all your demons die
Even if just one survives
I will still be here to hold you
No matter how cold you are
No matter how cold you are
I see the terror in your teardrop
Take your belief make it snow, let go
And wait together until we thaw
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
I was invited to eat the young
I was invited to eat the young
Starting, possession, symbolic firearms
In the bottomless celebrity scar
Starting, possession, symbolic firearms
In the bottomless celebrity scar
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
So just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
I was invited to eat the young
I was invited to eat the young
By the roadside, all the bones they clean
Dump gas in our machine
I will still be here to hold you
No matter how cold you are
No matter how cold you are
Cast out now, no fire to smell
Earth ain't up but sunk it even though my God
It seems like Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
There's no exit planet
No emergency room in this tomb
And it's door only opens one way
There's no exit planet
No emergency room in this tomb
And it's door only opens one way
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
We're blinded by blackness
We're just empty shells
In the deafening void of our last sunset
We're blinded by blackness
Just empty shells
In the deafening void of our last sunset
Even if just one survives
I will still be here to hold you
No matter how cold you are
No matter how cold you are
I see the terror in your teardrop
Take your belief make it snow, let go
And wait together until we thaw
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
I was invited to eat the young
I was invited to eat the young
Starting, possession, symbolic firearms
In the bottomless celebrity scar
Starting, possession, symbolic firearms
In the bottomless celebrity scar
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
I don't wanna be another bullet hole
In the exit sign on your road
So just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
Just smile like a rifle
Hard metal in the setting sun
I was invited to eat the young
I was invited to eat the young
By the roadside, all the bones they clean
Dump gas in our machine
I will still be here to hold you
No matter how cold you are
No matter how cold you are
Cast out now, no fire to smell
Earth ain't up but sunk it even though my God
It seems like Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
There's no exit planet
No emergency room in this tomb
And it's door only opens one way
There's no exit planet
No emergency room in this tomb
And it's door only opens one way
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
Sat, sat, sat, sat, sat Saturnalia
We're blinded by blackness
We're just empty shells
In the deafening void of our last sunset
We're blinded by blackness
Just empty shells
In the deafening void of our last sunset
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Saturnalia Lyrics as written by Tyler Lee Bates Brian Hugh Warner
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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@locanoel71 <br /> <br /> while I can see where you draw the father son connection (Saturn ate his son(s), I do not think this song was specifically written about his father. His father had not passed away when the song was written and Manson has said that he really did not know just how sick his father was. But ultimately, the song definitely ties into his relatiinship with his father and his fathers passing, after the fact.<br /> <br /> In the song Manson sings "I was invited to eat the young", putting himself in Saturn's (the fathers) position. By putting himself in Saturn's position, he is, once again, portraying himself (or the character within the story) as one of the many incarnations of Satan.<br /> <br /> As much of Manson work, this song can be interpreted in many ways and has many layers and comcepts of meaning ranging from simplicity to the most complex.<br /> <br /> A good place to start is researching into what is the saturnalia, why and how it originated, and the significance of Saturn.<br /> <br /> The song is adherent and ties into to the overall main themes that span the entire album, two of which are Satan (The album was set to be titled Say10, but was later changed to heaven upside down) the title, Heaven upside down, first and foremost, is indicative of another strong theme that runs throughout the album - that of being in a state of reversal, backward, or, obviously, upside down.<br /> <br /> The concept of Satan within the song, Saturnalia, is implied via Satan's association with Saturn throughout history, within both myth and various religions. Some believe that the planet Saturn is literally Satan incarnate. But of course Satan's association with Saturn in most cases is symbolic, myth, and allegory. <br /> <br /> A few notes on Satans association with saturn... Satan and Saturn are literally the same word. One is early Latin, one late latin. Also, Satur is the goat-legged half man half goat 'deity' headed by Pan (a representation of satan) sometimes spelt 'satyr' in English.The Oxford dictionary identifies it as 'Saturos' in Greek. The Saturs and their leader Pan are also known as "Goat-gods".<br /> <br /> Just Google Satan and Saturn and you will be overwhelmed with the information provided about Satan's association with Saturn throughout history, which is very interesting.<br /> <br /> (Please aee future posts for my explanation of how "being in a state of reversal, is a main theme within this song, the origin of the saturnalia, along with whatever other words I may come up with lol)
This is either Manson's confession or his exposee on the Hollywood child trafficking (see Pizzagate and Adrenochrome in Hollywood). The celebrity religion of Saturn ("my god"), invited to eat the young, the bottomless celebrity scar...
To me, it seems like Manson is/was in a relationship or good friendship with someone, and there was a discrepancy in the relationship about the morality of ingesting child-sourced adrenochrome, for which I think 'sunsets' in this song is a codeword, and the hard metal is the needle. It sounds like one of them is scarred by the practice (terror in the teardrop), and possibly that they need other drugs to cope with the reality ("make it snow"). "No matter how cold you are" either means the person is the evil one, or they have gone cold in the relationship after finding out the truth. The 'smile like a rifle' probably means they try to cope/pretend with a smile, but there is the very real threat of them 'triggering' to do something, like go out and tell people the truth. "Cast out now, no fire to smell" probably means a person has been banned from the Saturn religion, and can no longer be a part of the cultish practices.
The rest of the song seems to talk about the world ending or changing drastically, which has links with this elite circle.
@Warholkolic Adding to this, I think 'I don't wanna be another bullet hole<br /> In the exit sign on your road' means he doesn't want to be one of the people kicking the friend/lover out, because they probably have to kill them to keep the secret. The exit sign on their road is death -- where they get off the 'high way'. Him being another bullet hole is working with the others to kill the friend/lover, and he doesn't want to do it but he knows he must to protect their inner circle. <br /> <br /> The deafening void of the sunset is the withdrawal from their favourite drug. And they feel like empty shells without it.