"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.
Alert, alert this is an UpFront street bulletin
Coming live from FA
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
If you a gangster and you confessing you kill a nigga on record
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
You's a stupid motherfucker, this goes out to you fake gangsters
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
I see you nigga, nigga we all see you
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
We watchin' you motherfucker (don't make me)
Nigga don't make me
Have to step up in the club with my dawgs and show all you motherfuckers how we ball (yeah)
Nigga don't make me show how I can violet the law
Get your woman go up in her raw dog
Now the hoe love me
Waiting to show me (lil bitch you just a thought)
And that's how she gon' be
But niggas wanna handcuff and l-o-v-e
Steady claimin' they a pimp
But won't let her go free
Say that ain't gangster (na nigga)
Niggas fronting like they hard
But I'm knowin' that they pussy from the start
Man that ain't gangster (na)
Still in the projects
But I spend a hundred thousand a car (yeah)
I rather have a crib in Miami with a boat (with a boat nigga)
Put all my niggas on so we don't go broke
Yeah show 'em the ropes
Sticking together niggas tryn cope
Any one step in the way will get choked
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
Yeah fuck nigga
I see you cuttin' your eyes when I stroll
See you despise flashin', pullin' them hoes
'Cause I'm a playa nigga like I'm supposed to be
Ho's on a nigga, they supposed to be
You a sucker so you hate like supposed to be
And next time get your head cracked to the white meat
I try to keep it fly but this pussy nigga tempt me
Breaking a sweat, these other niggas ain't classy
Noo that's really killing my pimping (yeah nigga)
I mean really, really killing my pimping (really, really)
Look what you gone made Iceberg do
Call that boy, whole stomp down crew
And we will kick that ass nigga (yeah we will)
And we will I said kick that ass nigga (oh yeah we will)
And tell you whore she can come to my place (yeah)
After she burn me out for fucking up your face
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
Now it's a goddamn shame Pickelhead
What you did to that man (watch out)
I guess that pussy nigga thought I was playing (yeah)
I try to tell him but he like fuck what you say (fuck you man)
Come to a understanding, he like fuck what you sayin'
Only pussy nigga flexin' in front of these hoes and shit (kick his ass nigga)
So I swung on that nigga, and his nose and shit (Ooh) (kick his ass nigga)
Oh you think I give a fuck what your focus is (Step up nigga)
So I'm lookin' at the next man like step up bitch
'Cause if it's going down, this metal round spittin' from my chamber (POW)
Like David Banner you wouldn't like me when I'm angry (whaah)
Restructure to your whole grill, don't make me have to change you (ahe)
In to a stranger and damage your soul
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas
Coming live from FA
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
If you a gangster and you confessing you kill a nigga on record
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
You's a stupid motherfucker, this goes out to you fake gangsters
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
I see you nigga, nigga we all see you
(You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas you pimps)
We watchin' you motherfucker (don't make me)
Nigga don't make me
Have to step up in the club with my dawgs and show all you motherfuckers how we ball (yeah)
Nigga don't make me show how I can violet the law
Get your woman go up in her raw dog
Now the hoe love me
Waiting to show me (lil bitch you just a thought)
And that's how she gon' be
But niggas wanna handcuff and l-o-v-e
Steady claimin' they a pimp
But won't let her go free
Say that ain't gangster (na nigga)
Niggas fronting like they hard
But I'm knowin' that they pussy from the start
Man that ain't gangster (na)
Still in the projects
But I spend a hundred thousand a car (yeah)
I rather have a crib in Miami with a boat (with a boat nigga)
Put all my niggas on so we don't go broke
Yeah show 'em the ropes
Sticking together niggas tryn cope
Any one step in the way will get choked
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
Yeah fuck nigga
I see you cuttin' your eyes when I stroll
See you despise flashin', pullin' them hoes
'Cause I'm a playa nigga like I'm supposed to be
Ho's on a nigga, they supposed to be
You a sucker so you hate like supposed to be
And next time get your head cracked to the white meat
I try to keep it fly but this pussy nigga tempt me
Breaking a sweat, these other niggas ain't classy
Noo that's really killing my pimping (yeah nigga)
I mean really, really killing my pimping (really, really)
Look what you gone made Iceberg do
Call that boy, whole stomp down crew
And we will kick that ass nigga (yeah we will)
And we will I said kick that ass nigga (oh yeah we will)
And tell you whore she can come to my place (yeah)
After she burn me out for fucking up your face
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
Now it's a goddamn shame Pickelhead
What you did to that man (watch out)
I guess that pussy nigga thought I was playing (yeah)
I try to tell him but he like fuck what you say (fuck you man)
Come to a understanding, he like fuck what you sayin'
Only pussy nigga flexin' in front of these hoes and shit (kick his ass nigga)
So I swung on that nigga, and his nose and shit (Ooh) (kick his ass nigga)
Oh you think I give a fuck what your focus is (Step up nigga)
So I'm lookin' at the next man like step up bitch
'Cause if it's going down, this metal round spittin' from my chamber (POW)
Like David Banner you wouldn't like me when I'm angry (whaah)
Restructure to your whole grill, don't make me have to change you (ahe)
In to a stranger and damage your soul
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps (Aha)
Don't make me
Bring out the other side in me
So I hear you think you gangster
I heard you wanna be
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
You gangstas, you playas, you hustlas, you pimps
Gangster, gangster, gangster
You gangstas
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