"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.
Let the games begin if you want to f*** with me
You can't disturb the course of P & see & T & D & me
I'm on a mission
To set straight
The vice, the curse, the date, the gate relate
To this, I insist be it's weak to dis see I'm runna up so suckers stick to your 40
How could I give a d***, give a d*** if you approve what it's about
I just freak out
Just guess ya'll see'mon come back slipped
Outta whack as the master
Laid out the music
Death I just say f*** you, the void unknown we're thrown
through while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
There's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
Take out the earth the back is gone
At life's end we'll feel the calm
How strange we should be here at all
[Chorus]
If you don't have someone to do it with it's not worth doin'
To all my friends, it's not the end the earth has not swallowed me yet
Into whose womb were you woven what kin of your skin dropped you then
Bodies cloven
Light of daybreak blinded next exit
The wild darkness forming inside it
My day wasn't promised me each death it brings reminding me we
Are rumbling through this cursed universe where death is birth
Think not but what your manifest is worth
Giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
To burst first breaking through the center of the universe
Slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to the bum-rush single
Long ago has been become now when you find out there's no break
In the rhythm
Black anima makes my stamina stand alone disown the cinema
farewell to posing decades dozing comin' up the steps of the new
Screen rising scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
Which is which as if drawn by a child holmes
[Chorus]
This is the heat to flush your face
You can't disturb the course of P & see & T & D & me
I'm on a mission
To set straight
The vice, the curse, the date, the gate relate
To this, I insist be it's weak to dis see I'm runna up so suckers stick to your 40
How could I give a d***, give a d*** if you approve what it's about
I just freak out
Just guess ya'll see'mon come back slipped
Outta whack as the master
Laid out the music
Death I just say f*** you, the void unknown we're thrown
through while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
There's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
Take out the earth the back is gone
At life's end we'll feel the calm
How strange we should be here at all
[Chorus]
If you don't have someone to do it with it's not worth doin'
To all my friends, it's not the end the earth has not swallowed me yet
Into whose womb were you woven what kin of your skin dropped you then
Bodies cloven
Light of daybreak blinded next exit
The wild darkness forming inside it
My day wasn't promised me each death it brings reminding me we
Are rumbling through this cursed universe where death is birth
Think not but what your manifest is worth
Giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
To burst first breaking through the center of the universe
Slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to the bum-rush single
Long ago has been become now when you find out there's no break
In the rhythm
Black anima makes my stamina stand alone disown the cinema
farewell to posing decades dozing comin' up the steps of the new
Screen rising scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
Which is which as if drawn by a child holmes
[Chorus]
This is the heat to flush your face
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Its T & P & C & D and me im on a mission jus to let yall know