"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.
Hey, do ya love me. I'm untouchable darkness
A dirty black river to get you through this
Hey, do ya love me I'm a devil machine
(hey do ya love me I'm a devil machine)
Get into my world all american dream
In the mouth of madness
Down in the darkness
No more tomorrow
Down in the hollow
Hey do ya love it when the kids are screaming
Wrecking on the road violate their dreaming
Hey, do ya love to see the filth in the clean
(hey do ya love to see the filth in the clean)
Get into the gone all american dream
In the mouth of madness
Down in the darkness
No more tomorrow
Down in the hollow
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on come alive
Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness
(Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness)
A super death rising to get you through this
(a super death rising to get you through this)
Hey, do ya love me like a beautiful fiend
Get into my world all american dream
A dirty black river to get you through this
Hey, do ya love me I'm a devil machine
(hey do ya love me I'm a devil machine)
Get into my world all american dream
In the mouth of madness
Down in the darkness
No more tomorrow
Down in the hollow
Hey do ya love it when the kids are screaming
Wrecking on the road violate their dreaming
Hey, do ya love to see the filth in the clean
(hey do ya love to see the filth in the clean)
Get into the gone all american dream
In the mouth of madness
Down in the darkness
No more tomorrow
Down in the hollow
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
I'm demon speeding
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on come alive
Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness
(Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness)
A super death rising to get you through this
(a super death rising to get you through this)
Hey, do ya love me like a beautiful fiend
Get into my world all american dream
Lyrics submitted by thekronic420
Demon Speeding Lyrics as written by Scott Humphrey Rob Zombie
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This song is cool. I dont' know what it means... hell. i dont' think anyone can interprit what the heck is going on up in rob zombies head.. but... I like how this song starts ... with the "Why dont' you ask me what it feels like to be a freak?" hahah.. i want shirt that says that.. i mean. wouldn't you!?
hell yeah, shirts like that would sell for hella money
Id Buy one.
Kewl song. I'm not sure what it's meaning really is but I'm guessing it refers to Rob Zombie's days of drag racing and this song tells about the thrill and excitement he had felt while racing at hgih speeds.
Well, it does fit drag racing...having been a street racer a few years back i can see it. "I'm untouchable darkness" You drag race at night..and you pretty much feel like a bad ass while you are there...that's why the "untouchble" remark.
"Get into my world all american dream" His world...his car. All american, probably a muscle car...
"In the mouth of madness" it it madness...going to organized street racing. "down in the darkness " Night "no more tomorrow" You are young you don't think about tomorrow "down in the hollow" down the street that is all dark
"get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on come alive " For those few secs that you are racing you feel so alive your heart is pumping, adrenaline rushing...it is an awesome feeling and even ever when you are showing your taillights to the guy you are racing.
pretty much the rest of the lines go in that sense...at least that's how i see it begin a guy that used to street race a lot...
@jcamere I can very well see this being a street racer myself, that is the first meaning that spoke to me about this song. I very much agree with everything u said
oh you can never interprete rob zombie songs, he is just too clever...or too strange? anyway i love it!
I would pre order the shirt lol
I would think it's something like high way to hell, like if you were going to die tomorrow what would you do... I for one would be driving like a madman down the roads and I think that is what Zombie meant when he wrote this song
I think it's about young kids - teenagers speeding and drag street racing, " Hey do ya love it when the kids are screaming." Like screaming down the street. "Wrecking on the road, violate thier dreaming." The kids crash and thier dreams are shattered. "Hey do ya love me elevating the madness." Could mean that this person is making the races more dangerous and extreme. "A super death rising to get you through this." Because the races are so extreme and dangerous, courageous drivers have death after them, 'helping' them through the extreme races. "Hey do ya love me as a beautiful fiend, yeah." Could mean that the drivers see the person as a fiend but like him because he sets up these awesome races.
instead of untouchable darkness i thot he said "Hey do love me im a glutton for darkness..but i listend to it more closely he does say untouchable..kick ass song..this song and meet the creeper make me wanna drive fast