"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.
May I have your attention please (2x)
Will the Real Slim Shady please shut up
I repeat, will the Real Slim Shady please shut up
We're going to have a problem here
Y'all act like you've never heard a white person before
His rhymes are a bore
Punk kid trying to be hardcore
But Marshall Mathers is back worse than before
Making us snore
Whining in the microphone
It's the return of the... oh, wait, no wait... you're a fool
You didn't pay money for this cd, did you?
And Dr. Dre did..
EVERYTHING you idiot!!!
Without Dre's help you're as good as dead
The world's had enough of Eminem
Chici, Chici. Even his girlfriend's cheating on him
Look at him, walking around, living off Dre,
acting so cool, but he's really kind of weak though
Little Twit blasted me on his new cd, why?
Beause I turned him down for a date. (He he)
As for the question of who came first?
Was it Carson Daly or was it Fred Durst?
I'm sorry Slim, but this is going to hurt.
They both came closer than you ever will, jerk!
Your song is on my nerves (2x)
You're kind of lucky, because you got more fame than you deserve.
That is the message that I deliver to little kids.
You can become famous, and never know what talent is.
Of course they're going to like you, of course they do.
You're like a cartoon version of Ricky Schroder on "Silver Spoons."
You ain't nothin' but a product,
Package to be bought up
You know, a year from now, you won't be thought of.
So, you write about dead animals and cannibals.
Some day you'll stop dating dogs and date higher mammals.
There's a million women, just like me,
who think like me, that all can see,
that Slim Shady is just a boy dealing with puberty.
So if you agree, scream louder than me.
Chorus (2x)
You're Slim Shady, yes you're the real Shady.
You sound like Peter Brady.
You get quite irritating.
So won't the real Slim Shady please shut up, please shut up, please shut up
Will the Real Slim Shady please shut up
I repeat, will the Real Slim Shady please shut up
We're going to have a problem here
Y'all act like you've never heard a white person before
His rhymes are a bore
Punk kid trying to be hardcore
But Marshall Mathers is back worse than before
Making us snore
Whining in the microphone
It's the return of the... oh, wait, no wait... you're a fool
You didn't pay money for this cd, did you?
And Dr. Dre did..
EVERYTHING you idiot!!!
Without Dre's help you're as good as dead
The world's had enough of Eminem
Chici, Chici. Even his girlfriend's cheating on him
Look at him, walking around, living off Dre,
acting so cool, but he's really kind of weak though
Little Twit blasted me on his new cd, why?
Beause I turned him down for a date. (He he)
As for the question of who came first?
Was it Carson Daly or was it Fred Durst?
I'm sorry Slim, but this is going to hurt.
They both came closer than you ever will, jerk!
Your song is on my nerves (2x)
You're kind of lucky, because you got more fame than you deserve.
That is the message that I deliver to little kids.
You can become famous, and never know what talent is.
Of course they're going to like you, of course they do.
You're like a cartoon version of Ricky Schroder on "Silver Spoons."
You ain't nothin' but a product,
Package to be bought up
You know, a year from now, you won't be thought of.
So, you write about dead animals and cannibals.
Some day you'll stop dating dogs and date higher mammals.
There's a million women, just like me,
who think like me, that all can see,
that Slim Shady is just a boy dealing with puberty.
So if you agree, scream louder than me.
Chorus (2x)
You're Slim Shady, yes you're the real Shady.
You sound like Peter Brady.
You get quite irritating.
So won't the real Slim Shady please shut up, please shut up, please shut up
Lyrics submitted by sire_of_black_eyess
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lol. i heard that christina didn't do this, though. apparently it was some other chick who intentionally made it sound like christina did it.