"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.
This ain´t no motherfuckin´ stick up just pick the stick up
And watch it roll real close rolling out my hand ´til
It cracks to that fucking dome living off the curb
That peels you from the curb I lick the rest off
Do you dig many in ´93 been making them fools ´bout
Round bumping around me you´ll want to run from
Underground at the best walk the live from
The verb on the beats I won´t see you fuckin´ head
Peers I flow
And mother she
Won´t drain herself
And won´t be caught in
All live in a big world
Began just because
My life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
My life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Get straight quickly
Been making them fools ´bout
Round bumping around me you´ll want to run from
Underground at the best walk the live from
The verb on the beats I won´t see you fuckin´ head
Peers I flow
And mother she
Won´t drain herself
And won´t be caught in
She did what
She did what
She did what
Just because my life is un-rise - wipe
Lyrical - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
Lyrical - did
Because psycho - wipe
Lyrical - did
Wipe - did - wipe - did
First one - wipe
Lyrical - did
Last one - wipe
Lyrical - did
Begin in me because
My psycho - wipe
What lyrical - did
Stop the fuckin´ - wipe
The lyrical - did
Big into the wipe - did - wipe - did
Wipe - did - wipe - did
And watch it roll real close rolling out my hand ´til
It cracks to that fucking dome living off the curb
That peels you from the curb I lick the rest off
Do you dig many in ´93 been making them fools ´bout
Round bumping around me you´ll want to run from
Underground at the best walk the live from
The verb on the beats I won´t see you fuckin´ head
Peers I flow
And mother she
Won´t drain herself
And won´t be caught in
All live in a big world
Began just because
My life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
My life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Get straight quickly
Been making them fools ´bout
Round bumping around me you´ll want to run from
Underground at the best walk the live from
The verb on the beats I won´t see you fuckin´ head
Peers I flow
And mother she
Won´t drain herself
And won´t be caught in
She did what
She did what
She did what
Just because my life is un-rise - wipe
Lyrical - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
The lyrical did - did
Because my life is un-rise - wipe
Lyrical - did
Because psycho - wipe
Lyrical - did
Wipe - did - wipe - did
First one - wipe
Lyrical - did
Last one - wipe
Lyrical - did
Begin in me because
My psycho - wipe
What lyrical - did
Stop the fuckin´ - wipe
The lyrical - did
Big into the wipe - did - wipe - did
Wipe - did - wipe - did
Lyrics submitted by sean, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Engine No. 9 Lyrics as written by Abran Cunningham Abe Cunningham
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I like your interpretation TheHappiestColour, and Disposition, his lyrics have made more sense in successive albums but are still cryptic as hell! I've read in some Deftones interviews that they really don't consider this a true representation of themselves because they have progressed and changed so much.
I for one will always like Adrenaline though! The whole album reminds me of growing up in some cracked neighborhood and it kind of reminds me of my youth. I think the lyrics kind of spill out on the album because he is just kind of spewing his past out without thinking.
Deftones is a band that I notice is very much straight from the heart. They don't calculate much in their songs and just belt it! I know Chino in an interview said when they collaborated with Maynard (MJK from Tool), they were all surprised at how MJK took a lot of time to create his pieces from a certain formula, while the Deftones just winged theirs! I love both bands (they are my favorite), but I definitely like Chino's methods. It seems so raw that way.
Although Tool is just so awesome in the music they create. True Geniuses.