"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.
I am the years of death and dying
I tear with gripping teeth
I prey upon all the weary
eliminate the weak
Not a day in your life passes
when you won’t think of me
No thought and prayers can save you
So get up off of your knees
When I sense a weakness
I move in with blazing speed
Mothers, brothers, fathers and sons
it matters not to me
I’m a force of nature pure and sure
I’ve killed through all of time
When a GALE force wind blows through you
you’ll know that you are mine
I am legend, I’m your end
you’ll wither when I’m near
I’m the years of death and dying
the sum of all your fears
You may have had a brush with me
escaped and saved yourself
Most likely I was occupied
with killing someone else
Legends fall when I come to call
as I plan my next attack
PETTY things won’t matter
just ask THE MAN IN BLACK
The RAGE is gone and so is BON
so young in their demise
I ended the ERUPTION
I took them in their prime
I cull the herd with no remorse
taking souls along the WAY
I’m here to set the balance
of all you have to pay
I turned ZIGGY into STARDUST
I’ve been killing ever since
I took an EAGLE from the sky
I even killed a PRINCE
Struck down the QUEEN
Bid FAREWELL TO KINGS
I took the ANGEL OF DEATH
I’m always at the ready
to take away your breath
I tear with gripping teeth
I prey upon all the weary
eliminate the weak
Not a day in your life passes
when you won’t think of me
No thought and prayers can save you
So get up off of your knees
When I sense a weakness
I move in with blazing speed
Mothers, brothers, fathers and sons
it matters not to me
I’m a force of nature pure and sure
I’ve killed through all of time
When a GALE force wind blows through you
you’ll know that you are mine
I am legend, I’m your end
you’ll wither when I’m near
I’m the years of death and dying
the sum of all your fears
You may have had a brush with me
escaped and saved yourself
Most likely I was occupied
with killing someone else
Legends fall when I come to call
as I plan my next attack
PETTY things won’t matter
just ask THE MAN IN BLACK
The RAGE is gone and so is BON
so young in their demise
I ended the ERUPTION
I took them in their prime
I cull the herd with no remorse
taking souls along the WAY
I’m here to set the balance
of all you have to pay
I turned ZIGGY into STARDUST
I’ve been killing ever since
I took an EAGLE from the sky
I even killed a PRINCE
Struck down the QUEEN
Bid FAREWELL TO KINGS
I took the ANGEL OF DEATH
I’m always at the ready
to take away your breath
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
The Years of Death and Dying Lyrics as written by Tom Hunting Gary Holt
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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