"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.
And the end begins
Slaughter
Time of humans end
Terminated
Enter bowls of hell
Curl up and die
Cowarding - controlled
You are nothing
You will fear thee
Pleague of zombies
Curse of the living
Lost a world of pleasure
Now here comes the torture
Murderers and killers
Once your friends
And neighbours
Rising from the grave
Writhing in pain
I want to eat your brain
We're rising from the grave
Burning fires
Homes and cities
Torn to shit from
War and poverty
Overcrowding led to killing
Decaying bodies left unburied
Crimson famine kept on spreading
Breeding Ignorance
Declining populace
The day the dead walked
Apocalypse
The day the dead walked
The armageddon
The day the dead walked
Apocalypse
The day the dead walked
Rising from the grave
Writhing in pain
I want to eat your brain
We're rising from the grave
Slaughter
Time of humans end
Terminated
Enter bowls of hell
Curl up and die
Cowarding - controlled
You are nothing
You will fear thee
Pleague of zombies
Curse of the living
Lost a world of pleasure
Now here comes the torture
Murderers and killers
Once your friends
And neighbours
Rising from the grave
Writhing in pain
I want to eat your brain
We're rising from the grave
Burning fires
Homes and cities
Torn to shit from
War and poverty
Overcrowding led to killing
Decaying bodies left unburied
Crimson famine kept on spreading
Breeding Ignorance
Declining populace
The day the dead walked
Apocalypse
The day the dead walked
The armageddon
The day the dead walked
Apocalypse
The day the dead walked
Rising from the grave
Writhing in pain
I want to eat your brain
We're rising from the grave
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The Day the Dead Walked Lyrics as written by Chris Barnes Chan A Gaines
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