"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 is it in the lions share
Tied to this bed + I can't stand no more
Do you need what I need
In this vault of disease
Take your sides content to bleed
Your revolution died with all your greed
I set the time to all the lies
Of those in bed without a bind
Inside this church
We will burn all the loves
Of the women
Inside this church
We will burn all the lives
Of the damaged
Unjustify. Killed desire
Do you bleed what I bleed
In this house of the need
Genocide in where I live?
I can't forget too much + can't forgive
I'm just a fool with severed eyes
With severed lies with severed eyes
Inside this church
We will burn all the lives of the women
Damaged, damn, live, living, living
Unjustify
Get up and walk away
From this blaming halo
Got to move and set fire
To your church
Move to the living
Justify the testified...petrified...obey
Walk away it's just a flaming halo
In this blame invention
Get up and set fire
To your church
Tied to this bed + I can't stand no more
Do you need what I need
In this vault of disease
Take your sides content to bleed
Your revolution died with all your greed
I set the time to all the lies
Of those in bed without a bind
Inside this church
We will burn all the loves
Of the women
Inside this church
We will burn all the lives
Of the damaged
Unjustify. Killed desire
Do you bleed what I bleed
In this house of the need
Genocide in where I live?
I can't forget too much + can't forgive
I'm just a fool with severed eyes
With severed lies with severed eyes
Inside this church
We will burn all the lives of the women
Damaged, damn, live, living, living
Unjustify
Get up and walk away
From this blaming halo
Got to move and set fire
To your church
Move to the living
Justify the testified...petrified...obey
Walk away it's just a flaming halo
In this blame invention
Get up and set fire
To your church
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Justified Lyrics as written by Casey Karim Chmielinski
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Another metal song telling bad things to the masses.What's new?