"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.
Quieres chingaso, conmigo, tu lo tienes
Por vida why por muerte Holmes
Breakdown a motherfuckin' breakdown
Breakdown ain't that a bitch
If you like magic, here's a trick
Snap my fingers now I'm a lunatic breakdown
Ain't no threat straight out fact
Go head up and you'll get jacked, breakdown
Went to school at you of Hell
Favorite course was kill and tell
Graduated head of class, majored in kickin' ass
Did hard time to get my Master
Wrote the book on personal disaster
I don't need no PHD to be a doctor fuckin' misery
Psycho's insane
They say I lost my brain, but I gave it away
If my mind's gone bad don't go off feeling sad
'Cause I chose it that way
'Cause it's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
I'm gonna break, ain't no you can do
'Cause it's a breakdown, a motherfuckin' breakdown
Gonna break you in fuckin' two
What you got, come and show me
Think I won't, you don't know me
Live or die, it's all the same
Life or death, is just a game
Make you an offer you can't refuse
Pull out the gat, sorry you lose
Put a disclaimer on the crypt
Sorry Holmes, finger slipped
I broke a main now it's headed for my brain
And my mind goes thumpty thump thump
Pinned shot eyes, don't come as no surprise
No dance the bump and the dump
'Cause it's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
I'm gonna break, ain't no you can do
It's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
Who said that nightmares don't come true
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Stick it to your hand I'll stick out my finger
Kick you in the balls now you're a soprano singer, breakdown
Rush to my head, whacked and hyper
Now it's time to pay the piper, breakdown
Thought you were smart, now you're lying in a cart
You ain't resting six feet below
Your reservation ain't got no hesitations
You don't need to pack no bag where you go
Breakdown, I'm gonna breakdown
I'm gonna break ain't no you can do
Cause it's a breakdown, a motherfuckin' breakdown
I'm gonna break you in fuckin' two
Cruise the streets on a hustle
Show 'em what's up, break some muscle
Whacked out mind on a roll, livin' behind a violent toll
Don't take no chemist to understand the equation
AK47, a little persuasion
Your fear is like my compliment
Now you're the production of my environment
Don't flap no lip, don't shoot that crap
Time bomb for brain don't know when I snap, breakdown
My strategy I do a psycho attack
You know my set I'm a maniac, breakdown
Do as they say when in Rome
Blast the sucka then get home, breakdown
Concussion to the skull
Jugular severed chalk it up another 187, breakdown
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, fuck you Jack, I be a lunatic
Por vida why por muerte Holmes
Breakdown a motherfuckin' breakdown
Breakdown ain't that a bitch
If you like magic, here's a trick
Snap my fingers now I'm a lunatic breakdown
Ain't no threat straight out fact
Go head up and you'll get jacked, breakdown
Went to school at you of Hell
Favorite course was kill and tell
Graduated head of class, majored in kickin' ass
Did hard time to get my Master
Wrote the book on personal disaster
I don't need no PHD to be a doctor fuckin' misery
Psycho's insane
They say I lost my brain, but I gave it away
If my mind's gone bad don't go off feeling sad
'Cause I chose it that way
'Cause it's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
I'm gonna break, ain't no you can do
'Cause it's a breakdown, a motherfuckin' breakdown
Gonna break you in fuckin' two
What you got, come and show me
Think I won't, you don't know me
Live or die, it's all the same
Life or death, is just a game
Make you an offer you can't refuse
Pull out the gat, sorry you lose
Put a disclaimer on the crypt
Sorry Holmes, finger slipped
I broke a main now it's headed for my brain
And my mind goes thumpty thump thump
Pinned shot eyes, don't come as no surprise
No dance the bump and the dump
'Cause it's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
I'm gonna break, ain't no you can do
It's a breakdown, I'm go'n breakdown
Who said that nightmares don't come true
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Breakdown, yea, yea, yea
Stick it to your hand I'll stick out my finger
Kick you in the balls now you're a soprano singer, breakdown
Rush to my head, whacked and hyper
Now it's time to pay the piper, breakdown
Thought you were smart, now you're lying in a cart
You ain't resting six feet below
Your reservation ain't got no hesitations
You don't need to pack no bag where you go
Breakdown, I'm gonna breakdown
I'm gonna break ain't no you can do
Cause it's a breakdown, a motherfuckin' breakdown
I'm gonna break you in fuckin' two
Cruise the streets on a hustle
Show 'em what's up, break some muscle
Whacked out mind on a roll, livin' behind a violent toll
Don't take no chemist to understand the equation
AK47, a little persuasion
Your fear is like my compliment
Now you're the production of my environment
Don't flap no lip, don't shoot that crap
Time bomb for brain don't know when I snap, breakdown
My strategy I do a psycho attack
You know my set I'm a maniac, breakdown
Do as they say when in Rome
Blast the sucka then get home, breakdown
Concussion to the skull
Jugular severed chalk it up another 187, breakdown
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, fuck you Jack, I be a lunatic
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
Go 'N Breakdown Lyrics as written by Muir Clark
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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