"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.
Friday night
Four shadows heading for the dark
Four shadows heading for the past
Four shadows heading for the graves in the wooded maze
Four shadows looking for the place without a trace
Midnight and they're here, midnight
The old burial ground is part of the estate
Hidden by the heavy trees where Jean le Noir he sleeps
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead the shadows move
Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Oh it must never end, never end, no
Midnight and they're here, midnight
Doctor le Croix, he's a voodoo sorcerer
Madame Sarita, she's got the snake in her
And Lula Chevalier, she's girl that no one ever sees
Salem the servant, he belongs to the estate
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead, the shadows move
The Lafayettes are unaware, their butler Salem, he is here
Voodoo has been his life, Voodoo cuts deep like a knife
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead, the shadows move
'Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
'Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Oh it must never end..never end
Midnight and they're here, midnight
Midnight, life after death
Four shadows heading for the dark
Four shadows heading for the past
Four shadows heading for the graves in the wooded maze
Four shadows looking for the place without a trace
Midnight and they're here, midnight
The old burial ground is part of the estate
Hidden by the heavy trees where Jean le Noir he sleeps
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead the shadows move
Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Oh it must never end, never end, no
Midnight and they're here, midnight
Doctor le Croix, he's a voodoo sorcerer
Madame Sarita, she's got the snake in her
And Lula Chevalier, she's girl that no one ever sees
Salem the servant, he belongs to the estate
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead, the shadows move
The Lafayettes are unaware, their butler Salem, he is here
Voodoo has been his life, Voodoo cuts deep like a knife
The shadows move
They're here to feed the dead, the shadows move
'Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
'Cause there is life after death
Be patient and you will see
Oh it must never end..never end
Midnight and they're here, midnight
Midnight, life after death
Lyrics submitted by Rider_of_the_Sun
Life After Death Lyrics as written by King Diamond
Lyrics © Fintage House Publishing
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