"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.
Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
Tune in the transistor
And listen to the news
Cause once a week it hits ya
Heart broken and blue
It's the voice over Africa
So stop peregrination
So listen very closely to half a million dead souls
Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
It's complicated when facts come slow
Mass destruction mass confusion
What's the difference to the orphan
Orphans of the dead
When no more machine guns strike and there's silence instead
Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
Tune in the transistor
And listen to the news
Cause once a week it hits ya
Heart broken and blue
It's the voice over Africa
So stop peregrination
So listen very closely to half a million dead souls
Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
It's complicated when facts come slow
Mass destruction mass confusion
What's the difference to the orphan
Orphans of the dead
When no more machine guns strike and there's silence instead
Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion
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Rwanda Lyrics as written by Timothy Armstrong
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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damn i love this song...and its really funny too because they say lion in the song and on the back of the cd lars looks like a lion...maybe im the only one that noticed that...
good song, has anger yet a feeling to it, classic rancid in my opinion
ifitsnotpunkitsux...yer such a dumbass it's funny..maybe im the only one that noticed that
I bet none of who know who rwanda is...........if your thinking a girl your wrong rwanda is a countrie is africa baaaaaaaahahaha and lars i think he looks more like a warewolf than a lion..heh
You must be pretty dumb, everyone knows this is about the country which suffered genocide.The way you typed that shows that you obviously thought it was about as girl until someone corrected you and what's worse is that you seem to be smug, thinking you are so smart when in fact you shoulda known that in the first place.
First of all Rwanda isnt a person so you dont say "who rwanda is" it should be what, and its country not countrie. and this song is not funny, all who thinks its suppose to be funny need to go learn about Rwanda's history. Go study it and then come back and read the lyrics, you should have a different point of view then. and lars is lars, fuck off wiht your similies.
if you didn't know Rwanda was in Africa you are DUMB! good god... so shut up with your picture theories "ifitsnotpunkitsux"
Like you can read in the lyrics, around a half million people were murdered in Rwanda. I can't see what's funny about that. It's pretty scary that someone can do such a beautiful song about it. And yes, Lars do look a bit like a lion on the back of the cd.
I since we're on the topic of Rwanda, I wonder when they're gonna write a song about the Sudan Genocide... that's been going on for, what? ....36 years?
Check out the song Sudan by State Radio
I'm naming my daughter Rwanda. after the song not the country. don't worry. I love this song, it's really meaningful. its sad though a lot. Idk how to explain it without sounding dink. the song is good, genocide is not. there...?