"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.
Walking down the street, the smell of death in the air
What a rotting stench
My imagination runs wild at what this could be
Open up the can to discover a dead body
Or what was left of one, pieces in a bag
Blood is everywhere what a retched sight
Cut up really small by a razor sharp knife
Lying in the garbage no one else knows
What I have found, what should I do
Take it to the police or make it into stew
This was an evil committed by the insane
Looking down laughing, I am the same
The sight of death drives me nuts, I must kill, to control my brain
Swept away by my lust to cause pain, mutilation is my only want
The evil inside me gives me the strength to kill at will
My life is the means to cause death in the most sinister ways
I see it in your eyes the fear that keeps me alive
I'll take it away, your life will end today
I'll leave you to rot, what a sick odor
Scream all you want, but you can't stop this horror
Tasting your life as I drink your blood
Ripping out your insides, chewing on your spleen
Dead or living flesh is what I crave
I'll kill someone or eat from a grave
What a rotting stench
My imagination runs wild at what this could be
Open up the can to discover a dead body
Or what was left of one, pieces in a bag
Blood is everywhere what a retched sight
Cut up really small by a razor sharp knife
Lying in the garbage no one else knows
What I have found, what should I do
Take it to the police or make it into stew
This was an evil committed by the insane
Looking down laughing, I am the same
The sight of death drives me nuts, I must kill, to control my brain
Swept away by my lust to cause pain, mutilation is my only want
The evil inside me gives me the strength to kill at will
My life is the means to cause death in the most sinister ways
I see it in your eyes the fear that keeps me alive
I'll take it away, your life will end today
I'll leave you to rot, what a sick odor
Scream all you want, but you can't stop this horror
Tasting your life as I drink your blood
Ripping out your insides, chewing on your spleen
Dead or living flesh is what I crave
I'll kill someone or eat from a grave
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fucking gay, think of some intelligent lyrics
well i understand quite well where the name comes from. this is some messed shit, but its all good.
Crappy and stupid as Cannibal Corpse are, they could improve their songs 100%, if they stopped trying to make their lyrics rhyme, it sound utterly fucking stupid.
Yeah, i hate rhyming too. but i guess they must make their sonic slaughter somewhat....ummm....how should i say it...musical? ah well. CC are cool. and it's supposed to be messed up.
this group's shit...
I'd have to say that most of their osngs are about the same thing. Call me Captain Obvious but, their all stupid gore fests with absolutely no meaning other than horrid thirst and hunger for murder and death. Have to wonder what the hell is wrong with them. If i knew who ever wrote this shit, I'd slap him upside the head.
What kind of name for a song is Bloody Chunks?!? This song is meaningless and twisted. I believe this bands song writer is Satan him self.
the only thing that ticks me off more than sacreligious cannibals, is the people who pretend they are sacreligious cannibals. put a plateful of dead person in front of him and i doubt that he touches it. i also doubt that he has ever killed anyone in his life. the insturmentalists are talented, but they play the same song over and over again. this man certainly need Jesus. Peace
hey captain obvious!
ahah just kidding
cannibal corpse rule da sk00l, me niggas
lol
LMFAO I love this band their lyrics are so cartoonishly horrific it makes me laugh. Perfect death metal, the instrumentals are fine, but it's the hilariously twisted lyrics that take them to the level they are at now. I agree that anyone who actually takes these seriously is pretty messed up, but even Corpsegrinder himself has said that they just write the lyrics, they don't carry them out in reality. So I wish everyone would stop taking them so seriously. There is better death metal out there anyways.