"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.
[Spirits come come]
Sing to me my muses lost in hot cyclops anarchy possession, invention ... blood, blood spirits, spirits .... come, cum ... where will these visions lead? how far dare I go? where will this song take me? into the deep UNKNOWN!
SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!
I. all the prophets & the gods came prepared for theirs so we dined on the vine of the mind in pairs preaching werewolf prayers on our nightly flight gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight feel the urge of the power surge -- ignite the soul bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that I control got an arsenal, ganja blunts & such only love can set me free from this Patriarchal clutch speaking testaments in our secret dialogue while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog take a walk in the wilderness of your mind before your soul decides to die & leaves infinity behind
[chorus] POSSESSION INVENTION INVITE DISCOVERY SURRENDER TO PLEASURE LOST IN ECSTASY! SURVIVE ALIVE YOU ARE MY ENEMY YOU DIED FOR LIES SLAVES TO MISERY
II. down on the battleground laying waste to competition eye'm collecting intellects & exhaling solar systems eye decree mutiny .... its REVOLUTION US against the Patriarchy the assembler of souls full of knowledge untold while eye'm spinning webs of wisdom, prophecies unfold into attack mode to decipher the code of Babylon's terror spawn - tyranny reloads into the mental stasis - apathy erases the urgency of rage & its frightening little places prepare for warfare the afterbirth of knowledge is Americas nightmare
[chorus] [bridge] sometimes eye sit and ask myself ... WHAT HAVE EYE BECOME!!!??? something's taking over me ... POSSESSION FREE ME NOW ASHURA ISHTAR KALI AVENGE ME ... AVENGE ME.
Paint your face with the blood of the weak self sacrifice everyone you meet screaming demons in my veins voices of the dead nurturing my pain eye survived eye'm alive eye spread the fever to watch you burn killed your leaders to help you learn eye survived eye'm alive [lie.]
Sing to me my muses lost in hot cyclops anarchy possession, invention ... blood, blood spirits, spirits .... come, cum ... where will these visions lead? how far dare I go? where will this song take me? into the deep UNKNOWN!
SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!
I. all the prophets & the gods came prepared for theirs so we dined on the vine of the mind in pairs preaching werewolf prayers on our nightly flight gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight feel the urge of the power surge -- ignite the soul bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that I control got an arsenal, ganja blunts & such only love can set me free from this Patriarchal clutch speaking testaments in our secret dialogue while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog take a walk in the wilderness of your mind before your soul decides to die & leaves infinity behind
[chorus] POSSESSION INVENTION INVITE DISCOVERY SURRENDER TO PLEASURE LOST IN ECSTASY! SURVIVE ALIVE YOU ARE MY ENEMY YOU DIED FOR LIES SLAVES TO MISERY
II. down on the battleground laying waste to competition eye'm collecting intellects & exhaling solar systems eye decree mutiny .... its REVOLUTION US against the Patriarchy the assembler of souls full of knowledge untold while eye'm spinning webs of wisdom, prophecies unfold into attack mode to decipher the code of Babylon's terror spawn - tyranny reloads into the mental stasis - apathy erases the urgency of rage & its frightening little places prepare for warfare the afterbirth of knowledge is Americas nightmare
[chorus] [bridge] sometimes eye sit and ask myself ... WHAT HAVE EYE BECOME!!!??? something's taking over me ... POSSESSION FREE ME NOW ASHURA ISHTAR KALI AVENGE ME ... AVENGE ME.
Paint your face with the blood of the weak self sacrifice everyone you meet screaming demons in my veins voices of the dead nurturing my pain eye survived eye'm alive eye spread the fever to watch you burn killed your leaders to help you learn eye survived eye'm alive [lie.]
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first of all this is a cool song, but there's one problem. THE LYRICS ARE WRONG!!!! And the song is called Possession, not Posession. If you want the right lyrics here they are FROM THE SITE WWW.OTEP.COM :
[spirits come come]
sing to me my muses lost in hot cyclops anarchy possession, invention ... blood, blood spirits, spirits .... come, cum ...
where will these visions lead? how far dare i go? where will this song take me? into the deep UNKNOWN!
SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!
I.
all the prophets & the gods came prepared for theirs so we dined on the vine of the mind in pairs
preaching werewolf prayers on our nightly flight gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight
feel the urge of the power surge -- ignite the soul bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that i control
got an arsenal, ganja blunts & such only love can set me free from this Patriarchal clutch
speaking testaments in our secret dialogue while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog
take a walk in the wilderness of your mind before your soul decides to die & leaves infinity behind
[chorus]
POSSESSION INVENTION INVITE DISCOVERY
SURRENDER TO PLEASURE LOST IN ECSTASY!
SURVIVE ALIVE YOU ARE MY ENEMY
YOU DIED FOR LIES SLAVES TO MISERY
II.
down on the battleground laying waste to competition eye'm collecting intellects & exhaling solar systems
eye decree mutiny .... its REVOLUTION US against the Patriarchy
the assembler of souls full of knowledge untold while eye'm spinning webs of wisdom, prophecies unfold
into attack mode to decipher the code of Babylon's terror spawn - tyranny reloads
into the mental stasis - apathy erases the urgency of rage & its frightening little places
prepare for warfare the afterbirth of knowledge is Americas nightmare
[chorus]
[bridge]
sometimes eye sit and ask myself ... WHAT HAVE EYE BECOME!!!???
something's taking over me ...
POSSESSION FREE ME NOW ASHURA ISHTAR KALI AVENGE ME ... AVENGE ME.
paint your face with the blood of the weak self sacrifice everyone u meet screaming demons in my veins voices of the dead nurturing my pain
eye survived eye'm alive
eye spread the fever to watch u burn killed your leaders to help u learn
eye survived eye'm alive
[lie.]