"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.
(Intro)
Man: Ladies and gentlemen, see its like
Hello, Hello, Hello
Woman: Hello Hello
Man: See baby
Hello, Hello, Hello
Woman: Hello, Hello
[Verse 1]
Man: Now I been trying to fuck with you since 7th grade
Woman: But I didn't want to fuck with you, cause you wasn't paid
Man: By the time I got to tenth grade baby I was pushing dimes
Woman: And who would ever think you would get paid off for saying rhymes
Man: Now I fucked you and your sister too
Woman: My auntie and my cousin Boo
Man: But I think I should let you go
Woman: Tell me, why you don't love me no more
(Conversation between man and woman. Arguing)
[Verse 2]
Woman: You got a lot money now you think your shit don't smell
Man: But you wouldn't accept my calls when I went to jail
Woman: Now I been waiting for you everyday
Man: But I here messy shit from niggas around the way
Woman: Now I kept the pussy on lock till you got out
Man: But what about the freaky shit that you done with your mouth
Woman: nigga I hate your guts, boy you ain't shit
Man: well I feel the same way about you stankass scandless bitch
(Conversation between man and woman arguing)
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