"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.
Well I loved my aunt, but she died
And my uncle Lou, then he died
I'm searching for something which can't be found, but I'm hoping
I still dream of dad, though he died
Everything dies, everything dies
My ma's so sick, she might die
Though my girl's quite fit, she will die
Still looking for someone who was around, barely coping
Now I hate myself, wish I'd die
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything
No why, oh God I miss you
No why, oh God I miss you, I really miss you
No no no no
No why, oh God I miss you
No why, oh God I miss you, I really miss you
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything, no no no no
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything
And my uncle Lou, then he died
I'm searching for something which can't be found, but I'm hoping
I still dream of dad, though he died
Everything dies, everything dies
My ma's so sick, she might die
Though my girl's quite fit, she will die
Still looking for someone who was around, barely coping
Now I hate myself, wish I'd die
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything
No why, oh God I miss you
No why, oh God I miss you, I really miss you
No no no no
No why, oh God I miss you
No why, oh God I miss you, I really miss you
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything, no no no no
Everything dies, everything dies
Everything dies, everything
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Everything Dies Lyrics as written by Peter Thomas Steele
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Self-explanatory really. Great lyrics though.
song more or less about a guy who's close relatives died and he's not coped with it well at all. all that's happened only makes him think about how everyone else will die. and stuff, pretty to the point.
or perhaps the song is simply about how everything dies...its a fact of life. mabye there is no deeper meaning and pete steele just wants us to think there is...
Don't need a meaning when it rocks to the end!
Just about world temporality.
I love when he sing "I'm searching for something which can't be found But I'm hoping ". It sounds so sweet.
Believe it or not there is a deeper meaning which I'm amazed no one has picked up on. Since TON has been known to have inspiration with vampiric legends, it's about being immortal and watching everyone around you die.
^ Great song. I just watched the video, loved the music and everything. It's dark and beautiful.
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The song is about Peter's family life. Around the time this album was recorded, he experienced many deaths in his immediate family, which caused him to delve into alcohol; which he then went to rehab to cure. The 'World Coming Down' album is their most 'serious' album, since it deals with true things in their lives.
Thank you.
^Well.. true things that happened immedatly during that time. All their albums are based off experience. But yeah.
i think it is about how everyone is dying and he dosn't understand what life is since everyone hes ever loved is leaving him, and hes trying to find the meaning of what life is (which i dont belive there is) but i think its all about him having everything taken away and shit... and then he is searching for the answer