"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.
[Verse 1]
Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
The streets are red, red i'm afraid
There's no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh by God, how it all did change
[Pre-chorus]
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
I heard him
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
[Verse 2]
I always said, something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
He talked alone for miles and miles and miles
Gallows call, son I say
Keep your smile, and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys, how they soon change
[Pre-chorus]
Now they all pray
Blood stains wash away
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, I heard him
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
Yeah
[Bridge]
Yeah, well all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said, don't you dare ask
Why I'm cursed to wear this face
Now we all know why
Children called him Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
And they'd all fall down, down, down
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, yeah, I heard him
He screamed, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
[Outro]
That's right
All things wash away
And they'd all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Yeah, yeah
All things wash away
And they'd all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
The streets are red, red i'm afraid
There's no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh by God, how it all did change
[Pre-chorus]
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
I heard him
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
[Verse 2]
I always said, something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
He talked alone for miles and miles and miles
Gallows call, son I say
Keep your smile, and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys, how they soon change
[Pre-chorus]
Now they all pray
Blood stains wash away
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, I heard him
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
Yeah
[Bridge]
Yeah, well all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said, don't you dare ask
Why I'm cursed to wear this face
Now we all know why
Children called him Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
And they'd all fall down, down, down
[Chorus]
He said, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, yeah, I heard him
He screamed, lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
[Outro]
That's right
All things wash away
And they'd all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Yeah, yeah
All things wash away
And they'd all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Lyrics submitted by fennsk, edited by Ashram, AvengedToolica
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yes it is ^
I kinda like this song
ronnie defeo? amityville?
About a school shooting in about 1995, I think. The shooter's name was Ron Brown a.k.a. Ronnie Frown.
Is it a coincidence that this song sounds uncannily like Rainbow, whose original - and best - vocalist was the legendary Ronnie James Dio?
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Guitar sounds really cool. I think Kirk used a Fender Tricaster and its hard to get the same sound using any other guitar