"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.
Welcome to your final days
The ending story always plays
As I grieve, within a breath
If all fail, do all succeed?
To no defeat, you are still sweet
For there in the dark, taste of blood on our side
Shall not know defeat again
Death is a warning
Sun is the terror's eyes
I am the weapon
It's soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Here before eternity
Expose the sky or rather drown
Pour down the rain, wash away all the lies
Rise, fall, repeat again
Late for salvation
Details in the devil's smile
I am the weapon
Soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Carry down in flames
Emperors gaze in final days
Each one crown mold of gold
And found by our flesh, we'll tear it way
Deceiver, believer
Programmed to obey
Defy the lie
Fed to be a king
Death is a warning
Sun is the terror's eyes
I am the weapon
It's soul-collecting time
Late for salvation
Details in the devil's smile
I am the weapon
In soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Sun is the terror's eyes
It's just another judgement day
Details in the devil's smile
It's just another judgement day
Death is a warning
A detail in the devil's smile
Death waits and I will rise
The ending story always plays
As I grieve, within a breath
If all fail, do all succeed?
To no defeat, you are still sweet
For there in the dark, taste of blood on our side
Shall not know defeat again
Death is a warning
Sun is the terror's eyes
I am the weapon
It's soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Here before eternity
Expose the sky or rather drown
Pour down the rain, wash away all the lies
Rise, fall, repeat again
Late for salvation
Details in the devil's smile
I am the weapon
Soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Carry down in flames
Emperors gaze in final days
Each one crown mold of gold
And found by our flesh, we'll tear it way
Deceiver, believer
Programmed to obey
Defy the lie
Fed to be a king
Death is a warning
Sun is the terror's eyes
I am the weapon
It's soul-collecting time
Late for salvation
Details in the devil's smile
I am the weapon
In soul-collecting time
It's just another judgement day
It's just another judgement day
Sun is the terror's eyes
It's just another judgement day
Details in the devil's smile
It's just another judgement day
Death is a warning
A detail in the devil's smile
Death waits and I will rise
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
Another Judgement Day Lyrics as written by Kurdt Vanderhoof
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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