"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.
Into mass graves we've shoveled lives
A massive pipeline for the lies
A past so vast with genocide
And ignorance we hid behind
You say that we are done with this
Turn blind eyes and still dismiss
Chalk this up as something passed
And still create a lower caste
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
On broken backs we build empires
Twisting spines for the steeple spires
How many people can you kill?
Look at your twenty dollar bill
Do you see third world poverty
Inside the lines of of your country?
And now to treaties we are loyal
But tear them up when we smell oil
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
"I can still see the butchered women and children
lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch.
And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud,
and was buried in the blizzard.
A people’s dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream."
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
A massive pipeline for the lies
A past so vast with genocide
And ignorance we hid behind
You say that we are done with this
Turn blind eyes and still dismiss
Chalk this up as something passed
And still create a lower caste
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
On broken backs we build empires
Twisting spines for the steeple spires
How many people can you kill?
Look at your twenty dollar bill
Do you see third world poverty
Inside the lines of of your country?
And now to treaties we are loyal
But tear them up when we smell oil
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
"I can still see the butchered women and children
lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch.
And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud,
and was buried in the blizzard.
A people’s dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream."
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
Lyrics submitted by DesignedToHide, edited by zehnra
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another song about the mis-treating of native americans. America as a country thought nothing of killing and shoving them away to further our progress. even now as a modern nation we rarely give anything to native americans. Not many peoalive even remember what happened, and even less have any respect for what they've been through.