"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.
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
She was a bad, uh
The type at the club niggas would grab her (go)
Fantasize when I had her in the bathroom sweatin' with her ass up (go)
The body of a dancer
We had chemistry 'cause she was a Cancer
Thought forever it would last for
But forever moved faster so I had to (go)
Still I gotta pause when I think about her in them drawers (go)
And uh, ooh baby, she liked it raw
And like rain when she came it poured (go)
And like a car that I can't afford
I would want it, then want some more, uh
The positions our frames explored let me know
She was secure, back for more I wanna
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
Freaky like the daughter of a pastor
Said I was bait and for her to master (go)
Little red Corvette, nah, she was faster
Wet dreams, La Mer cream the bath, uh (go)
We'd make love and then laughter
And any way I wanted I could have her
Said there was some girls that did attract her
A new chapter she was after, so I said let's (go)
To a place that you wanna be, uh
Get what you want from her and me, uh (go)
Free love I wanna see, uh
Hot sex in the third degree, uh (go)
You're gettin' served while servin' me, uh
Dirty words encourage me to
Rock steady and sturdily on
You're turning me, no turning back the further we
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
She was a bad, uh
The type at the club niggas would grab her (go)
Fantasize when I had her in the bathroom sweatin' with her ass up (go)
The body of a dancer
We had chemistry 'cause she was a Cancer
Thought forever it would last for
But forever moved faster so I had to (go)
Still I gotta pause when I think about her in them drawers (go)
And uh, ooh baby, she liked it raw
And like rain when she came it poured (go)
And like a car that I can't afford
I would want it, then want some more, uh
The positions our frames explored let me know
She was secure, back for more I wanna
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
Freaky like the daughter of a pastor
Said I was bait and for her to master (go)
Little red Corvette, nah, she was faster
Wet dreams, La Mer cream the bath, uh (go)
We'd make love and then laughter
And any way I wanted I could have her
Said there was some girls that did attract her
A new chapter she was after, so I said let's (go)
To a place that you wanna be, uh
Get what you want from her and me, uh (go)
Free love I wanna see, uh
Hot sex in the third degree, uh (go)
You're gettin' served while servin' me, uh
Dirty words encourage me to
Rock steady and sturdily on
You're turning me, no turning back the further we
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
(Go) go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three, everybody run back to your fantasy, now (go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
(Go)
Lyrics submitted by Pryncess33
GO! Lyrics as written by Lonnie Rashid Lynn Linda Gail Lewis
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