"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'm a dank burner cuz i'm earnin some bank
no one to spend it on because i ain't got a mate
so i put it my system where i procrastinate
playin games of video i'm sure that you can relate
I like hack n slash, fps, my favorite's third person
shotgun blast to some brains is my perversion
mixin up the herbs, weapon upgrades
use the silencer if that shits on fade
reside inside a hazy hobbit hole i never vamanos
my best friends papa john and the noid from domino's
sometimes i skip a shower i smell like a stinky toad
every console you can think on the brink of jericho
i would never buy a gun i would never take a life
but i will snipe you in the eye if i see that you're online
i'm a kinda quite guy cuz i'm always in my mind
i would say give me a try if i ever went outside.
home alone on my throne
everywhere i go i own
i'm a troll packin bowls
yo it's in my chromosomes
it brings out the best in me in very scary ways
i been down with bootin up since sierra games
dining on some deep dish listening to cheap trick
live this life of chronic, life aquatic made me sea sick
on my wii or my three or my three six
cross legged playin bongos like a beatnik
i'm gettin baked with solid snake and ratchet and clank
pot with ocelot cuz he's got the mad dank
we're drinkin suny d cuz the purple stuff's rank
we never step outside sun exposure's unsafe
i'm not a party guy less it's mario party time
i'd rather kill some zombie army guys while playin re5
or the second god of war or the first half life 2
now roll up a blunt with my degree from nyu
i got game thumb the basement's the place to be
president's daughter's been kidnapped and it's up to me
in my pixelated palace there's a policy
if the world hangs in the balance you best call mc
no one to spend it on because i ain't got a mate
so i put it my system where i procrastinate
playin games of video i'm sure that you can relate
I like hack n slash, fps, my favorite's third person
shotgun blast to some brains is my perversion
mixin up the herbs, weapon upgrades
use the silencer if that shits on fade
reside inside a hazy hobbit hole i never vamanos
my best friends papa john and the noid from domino's
sometimes i skip a shower i smell like a stinky toad
every console you can think on the brink of jericho
i would never buy a gun i would never take a life
but i will snipe you in the eye if i see that you're online
i'm a kinda quite guy cuz i'm always in my mind
i would say give me a try if i ever went outside.
home alone on my throne
everywhere i go i own
i'm a troll packin bowls
yo it's in my chromosomes
it brings out the best in me in very scary ways
i been down with bootin up since sierra games
dining on some deep dish listening to cheap trick
live this life of chronic, life aquatic made me sea sick
on my wii or my three or my three six
cross legged playin bongos like a beatnik
i'm gettin baked with solid snake and ratchet and clank
pot with ocelot cuz he's got the mad dank
we're drinkin suny d cuz the purple stuff's rank
we never step outside sun exposure's unsafe
i'm not a party guy less it's mario party time
i'd rather kill some zombie army guys while playin re5
or the second god of war or the first half life 2
now roll up a blunt with my degree from nyu
i got game thumb the basement's the place to be
president's daughter's been kidnapped and it's up to me
in my pixelated palace there's a policy
if the world hangs in the balance you best call mc
Lyrics submitted by Kirbiboh
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