"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 want to touch your neon chemical
I want to make you need like an animal
The way you rip my head off your my main incinerator
Kick the door down when you come
Tear the roof of when you leave, yea
The scene
Should be flashing as you reaper
Slip into something dangerous
As something I can fear
Lie and say you want then, lie and say you will
Tell me all the stories how you love and how you kill, yea
Love me as you kill me
I want feel the torture
I want to see extinction
Will you smile when the shades get soaked
In blood when the saints come crashing in
Could you do some damage to the shape I'm in
Ruin this ruin and go to the end, yea
Love me as you kill me
I want to see destruction
I want to feel extinction
Without you life is nothing
Without you life is mortal time
Without you I'm just standing here
Without you waiting to be alive
Please,
Leave your mark on me, make an impression
Don't warn me, before you cut
The moon reflects off your tools love me long
Don't slay me, don't spit on my blood after I'm gone
I want to see destruction
I want to feel extinction
I want to make you need like an animal
The way you rip my head off your my main incinerator
Kick the door down when you come
Tear the roof of when you leave, yea
The scene
Should be flashing as you reaper
Slip into something dangerous
As something I can fear
Lie and say you want then, lie and say you will
Tell me all the stories how you love and how you kill, yea
Love me as you kill me
I want feel the torture
I want to see extinction
Will you smile when the shades get soaked
In blood when the saints come crashing in
Could you do some damage to the shape I'm in
Ruin this ruin and go to the end, yea
Love me as you kill me
I want to see destruction
I want to feel extinction
Without you life is nothing
Without you life is mortal time
Without you I'm just standing here
Without you waiting to be alive
Please,
Leave your mark on me, make an impression
Don't warn me, before you cut
The moon reflects off your tools love me long
Don't slay me, don't spit on my blood after I'm gone
I want to see destruction
I want to feel extinction
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Neon Lyrics as written by Henry Rollins Chris Haskett
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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