"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.
Woo
It's Shady a.K.a. The army, Shady Records
Break it down
I do a lot of spittin'
And I don't gotta try
But I ain't got rhymes to waste
So let's make it
I don't say I'm a gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up if I need to pop somethin'
I got a friend of mine named 50 Cent I signed
This shit's official now, the deal is finished and it's time
To get down to this business, let's go get these nicks and dimes
So hurry up and cop G-Unit shit before it's gone
It's like a goldmine for my man to take nine
And bounce right back, gotta be like Michael Myers
This shit must be a sign, these labels must be blind
Columbia I know this must be fuckin' with they mind
They know they 'bout to cry 'cause they missed out but I
Know how to get the dope 'cause Dre gave me a business mind
I'm singing my line, I hit 'em with a 9
I had an empty clip but they ain't check the chamber (ha)
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
Damn 50
This shit's about to hit the fan 50
Fuck happened to Ja? He got the sickest vendetta
He must think that you betta
You 'bought to play with his paper
You gonna fuck up his chedda
Now homie think we gon' sweat 'em
But we just gon' forget 'em
If he don't shut up we'll dead 'em
Let Yayo stomp his head in, it's all good
'Cause we'd rather rap then to let a
Pussy play us outta pocket, homie
So tell 'em he better be easy
Start some bullshit, he'll get his whole crew hit
D-rwizzy, Obie, 50 Cent, and G-Unit
Yo, he don't want it, cuz, he's always drugged out
You won't see one picture where his pupils ain't bugged out
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
It's Shady a.K.a. The army, Shady Records
Break it down
I do a lot of spittin'
And I don't gotta try
But I ain't got rhymes to waste
So let's make it
I don't say I'm a gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up if I need to pop somethin'
I got a friend of mine named 50 Cent I signed
This shit's official now, the deal is finished and it's time
To get down to this business, let's go get these nicks and dimes
So hurry up and cop G-Unit shit before it's gone
It's like a goldmine for my man to take nine
And bounce right back, gotta be like Michael Myers
This shit must be a sign, these labels must be blind
Columbia I know this must be fuckin' with they mind
They know they 'bout to cry 'cause they missed out but I
Know how to get the dope 'cause Dre gave me a business mind
I'm singing my line, I hit 'em with a 9
I had an empty clip but they ain't check the chamber (ha)
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
Damn 50
This shit's about to hit the fan 50
Fuck happened to Ja? He got the sickest vendetta
He must think that you betta
You 'bought to play with his paper
You gonna fuck up his chedda
Now homie think we gon' sweat 'em
But we just gon' forget 'em
If he don't shut up we'll dead 'em
Let Yayo stomp his head in, it's all good
'Cause we'd rather rap then to let a
Pussy play us outta pocket, homie
So tell 'em he better be easy
Start some bullshit, he'll get his whole crew hit
D-rwizzy, Obie, 50 Cent, and G-Unit
Yo, he don't want it, cuz, he's always drugged out
You won't see one picture where his pupils ain't bugged out
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
I ain't no gangsta, I ain't got to start frontin'
I just call Banks up when I need to pop somethin'
But you gon' feel our shit, you gon' hit the stop button
We gon' fuck you up a long time, you gon' get stomped stuntin'
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he is a wankster