"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.
mc frontalot: the arch criminal for some reason not
sought by authorities, though I been running wild for days
they's surely gonna track me down
I'm the #1 menace for miles around
with the littering, the loitering, the mattress tags
all the piratated mp3s I grabs [arrrr]
all the cable I stole, certain bathroom wall I wrote on
i'm so cruel & cold you put a coat on
i even cheat on my tax!
"from this life of crime there could be no turning back"
riding all around on my bike with no helmet, commit mail fraud whenever I see a mailman
got a jaywalking ticket. I crumpled it up!
still bump the bootleg cause I'm hanging tough [we're ruff!]
crime spree that I'm on, breaking the law until the break of the dawn
then I'll break it again, then I'll break it some more
(mc frontalot you're so hardcore)
crime spree that I'm on, breaking the law until the break of the dawn
yo it seems like I break it all the time
(this mc led a life of crime)
harder than a criminal's supposed to be, most of the
FBI heard of this MC
called them up just to check, "this here's the frontalot and I expect
that y'all are tracking me down, cat n' the mouse
gearing it up for some chasin' around,
i mean you name it I done it,
slandering, pandering, a couple hundred
uncleared samples I rock per track
FBI's like "we're busy, we'll call you back"
yeah, if you can find me! leave a trail violated statutes behind me
winding in an impossible wake, cause hard as I am
I don't think I could take
prison for even a day. "In that case you should live lawfully"
too late!
sought by authorities, though I been running wild for days
they's surely gonna track me down
I'm the #1 menace for miles around
with the littering, the loitering, the mattress tags
all the piratated mp3s I grabs [arrrr]
all the cable I stole, certain bathroom wall I wrote on
i'm so cruel & cold you put a coat on
i even cheat on my tax!
"from this life of crime there could be no turning back"
riding all around on my bike with no helmet, commit mail fraud whenever I see a mailman
got a jaywalking ticket. I crumpled it up!
still bump the bootleg cause I'm hanging tough [we're ruff!]
crime spree that I'm on, breaking the law until the break of the dawn
then I'll break it again, then I'll break it some more
(mc frontalot you're so hardcore)
crime spree that I'm on, breaking the law until the break of the dawn
yo it seems like I break it all the time
(this mc led a life of crime)
harder than a criminal's supposed to be, most of the
FBI heard of this MC
called them up just to check, "this here's the frontalot and I expect
that y'all are tracking me down, cat n' the mouse
gearing it up for some chasin' around,
i mean you name it I done it,
slandering, pandering, a couple hundred
uncleared samples I rock per track
FBI's like "we're busy, we'll call you back"
yeah, if you can find me! leave a trail violated statutes behind me
winding in an impossible wake, cause hard as I am
I don't think I could take
prison for even a day. "In that case you should live lawfully"
too late!
Lyrics submitted by Mopnugget
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