"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.
ELEKTRA:
Cursed by the Priests, torn, twisted and beat
Sentenced to die, by the Sorceress-her Evil Eye
God of the Furnace, I call thy Name
Please deliver me from the Serpent, the Serpent of Pain
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
Burn all the Sinners in my way
Rise up devour-Inferno of Ultimate Power
God of Destruction-consume them with your Eruption
Inflame the Sorceress and the Priests of Evil who bind me
Singe them, Burn them, Destroy them
Please, please deliver me
With Holy Fire, the Golden Pyre... Death
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
Burn all the Sinners in my way
Kill, eradicate with Fire and Sword!
Flames of Vindication!
I impale thee on the Great Spike of Hatred
By the FLAMES OF THE BLACK STAR!!!
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
I call thy Name, consume my pain!
Burn all the Sinners Beyond Death... Beyond Death!!!
Cursed by the Priests, torn, twisted and beat
Sentenced to die, by the Sorceress-her Evil Eye
God of the Furnace, I call thy Name
Please deliver me from the Serpent, the Serpent of Pain
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
Burn all the Sinners in my way
Rise up devour-Inferno of Ultimate Power
God of Destruction-consume them with your Eruption
Inflame the Sorceress and the Priests of Evil who bind me
Singe them, Burn them, Destroy them
Please, please deliver me
With Holy Fire, the Golden Pyre... Death
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
Burn all the Sinners in my way
Kill, eradicate with Fire and Sword!
Flames of Vindication!
I impale thee on the Great Spike of Hatred
By the FLAMES OF THE BLACK STAR!!!
THE FIRE GOD, THE FIRE GOD
I call thy Name, consume my pain!
Burn all the Sinners Beyond Death... Beyond Death!!!
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