"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.
I know I'm not what your used to
Too real for all that fruit stuff
Revealin' perpetrators though they hide
Just throw your truce up
No time for all that new stuff
Frontin' on that who what
I could give a fuck about you niggas
Pick your tools up
Its war, lace your boots up
Its real, fuck the rules bro
Close contact one hand combat
Or long distance fuck you fools up
Back in the saddle now
Back up in the battleground
If its in your heart when it sparks
Act according now
The object man slaughter now
The order shut these fools down
The target, anything movin'
Women and children catchin' slugs now
No love so don't come around
Run for the border now
Head shots are the standard
Got no time for no second rounds
Down from the start to finish
Niggas talk it but I live it
True to the heart though its hard
I'm still up in it
Business is my personal
Pain if I touch a few
Fuck your life my nig
And look here, take it personal.
I keep my boots laced tight as fuck
In god I trust
These mofuckers can't be stupid enough
Not to throw they truce up
But fuckem, No this is not love
This is death bout to touchem
This is anything movin'
Becoming the new focus of my weapon
This is with each breath I take in
Bein' the last one they takin'
This is me aski'n gods forgiveness
For all the souls at his gate waitin'
All the clothes we left on lifeless bodies
White flags could a saved em
But they refuse to chose to waivem
So I refuse not to sprayem, fuckem
That's why they stay
With they face to the pavement prayin'
To god they don't get weighed in
Cause we are not playin'
We are on top of this food chain
And they could never evolve past us
And though we'd see this solved peacefully
They mistakenly come after us
But they never seem to be able to handle
The repercussions afterward
When the dust settles and they finally realize
They should have been pacifists
But its too late to switch
After this full metal jacket grabs em
Look we toldem this was war
And we toldem we get at em
This is warâ?¦
I don been to war in all seasons
Gave a whole new meanin' to block bleedin'
I done seen some of the hardest cats shot
On the ground screamin'
Exercising these demons
From the souls of my enemies
My mouth never moves
But my finger moves repeatedly
Casket closed friend or foe
When its my time I'll never know
Don't catch bullets always
Let my bullets go
Squeeze till its nothing left
Protect my buddy protect my self
Gotta make it home so I
Fight till my last breathe
Never mind these fucked up rules
If he can breakem so can you
If he talk shit best believe
That I'm gone killem fool
A dead man can't talk
Fuckem is what I'm talking about
Only story getting told
Is the story comin 'out my mouth
Its war, ain't no rules here
My enemies made that real clear
Explosives under the street
The only thing that I'm fearin here
No time to make my first mistake
Be on point wit each chance I take
Gotta stay focused just to
Make it to the next day
My eyes are open never shut
Holdin' a weapon blowem up
When my boots are laced up
Best believe I'm not given a fuck
I'm givin' all my rounds away
Hell naw I ain't stingy bro
He can takem all or he better
Throw his truce up, its war
Too real for all that fruit stuff
Revealin' perpetrators though they hide
Just throw your truce up
No time for all that new stuff
Frontin' on that who what
I could give a fuck about you niggas
Pick your tools up
Its war, lace your boots up
Its real, fuck the rules bro
Close contact one hand combat
Or long distance fuck you fools up
Back in the saddle now
Back up in the battleground
If its in your heart when it sparks
Act according now
The object man slaughter now
The order shut these fools down
The target, anything movin'
Women and children catchin' slugs now
No love so don't come around
Run for the border now
Head shots are the standard
Got no time for no second rounds
Down from the start to finish
Niggas talk it but I live it
True to the heart though its hard
I'm still up in it
Business is my personal
Pain if I touch a few
Fuck your life my nig
And look here, take it personal.
I keep my boots laced tight as fuck
In god I trust
These mofuckers can't be stupid enough
Not to throw they truce up
But fuckem, No this is not love
This is death bout to touchem
This is anything movin'
Becoming the new focus of my weapon
This is with each breath I take in
Bein' the last one they takin'
This is me aski'n gods forgiveness
For all the souls at his gate waitin'
All the clothes we left on lifeless bodies
White flags could a saved em
But they refuse to chose to waivem
So I refuse not to sprayem, fuckem
That's why they stay
With they face to the pavement prayin'
To god they don't get weighed in
Cause we are not playin'
We are on top of this food chain
And they could never evolve past us
And though we'd see this solved peacefully
They mistakenly come after us
But they never seem to be able to handle
The repercussions afterward
When the dust settles and they finally realize
They should have been pacifists
But its too late to switch
After this full metal jacket grabs em
Look we toldem this was war
And we toldem we get at em
This is warâ?¦
I don been to war in all seasons
Gave a whole new meanin' to block bleedin'
I done seen some of the hardest cats shot
On the ground screamin'
Exercising these demons
From the souls of my enemies
My mouth never moves
But my finger moves repeatedly
Casket closed friend or foe
When its my time I'll never know
Don't catch bullets always
Let my bullets go
Squeeze till its nothing left
Protect my buddy protect my self
Gotta make it home so I
Fight till my last breathe
Never mind these fucked up rules
If he can breakem so can you
If he talk shit best believe
That I'm gone killem fool
A dead man can't talk
Fuckem is what I'm talking about
Only story getting told
Is the story comin 'out my mouth
Its war, ain't no rules here
My enemies made that real clear
Explosives under the street
The only thing that I'm fearin here
No time to make my first mistake
Be on point wit each chance I take
Gotta stay focused just to
Make it to the next day
My eyes are open never shut
Holdin' a weapon blowem up
When my boots are laced up
Best believe I'm not given a fuck
I'm givin' all my rounds away
Hell naw I ain't stingy bro
He can takem all or he better
Throw his truce up, its war
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