"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.
Your Karma... its all about Karma...
Your Karma... its all about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's all about Karma
I raise from three feet off my bed
An old cardboard box, no shoes, no socks
But lots of Karma, I'm smiley', whilin'
Giddy as fuck, though, I'm grimy stylin'
I gots no home, I gots no bones
Just be happy to be alive, and checkin' payphones
For a quarter over here, a nickel over there
Flat broke, but I got a lot of karma to share
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise is offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lip smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
Bail man's trying to find me, I'm deep in the dumps
And I dance every time a car bounce with the bumps
I'm the hobo with all the jokes to tell
Throwing karma through the roof, I'm happy as hell
Whether life slows down, or if it throws down
I'm beamin karma and I'm glad to be around
This city gets cold as ice, I'm out there
But my karma keeps me warm like some thermal underwear
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise if offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lips smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
(x2)
Your Karma... Something about Karma...
Your Karma... Somethin about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's something about Karma
Let me see out that window, I got sunshine for ya
Front me with that sad shit, I'll fuckin' ignore ya
My days are always fly days, unlike everybody else on them overcrowded highways
I says karma is worth more than money or love, or any of the above
Mine glows off, and shows off my charisma
I'm happy nobody say there is none.
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise is offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lip smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
(Repeat until end)
I'm all about karma, if I'm about something
Ain't nobody placed on this Earth for nothing
Watch me get to it, get on it, get live
While I'm still alive, and I'm soo alive)
(Repeat in background while above is playing)
Your Karma... its all about Karma...
Your Karma... its all about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's all about Karma
Your Karma... its all about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's all about Karma
I raise from three feet off my bed
An old cardboard box, no shoes, no socks
But lots of Karma, I'm smiley', whilin'
Giddy as fuck, though, I'm grimy stylin'
I gots no home, I gots no bones
Just be happy to be alive, and checkin' payphones
For a quarter over here, a nickel over there
Flat broke, but I got a lot of karma to share
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise is offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lip smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
Bail man's trying to find me, I'm deep in the dumps
And I dance every time a car bounce with the bumps
I'm the hobo with all the jokes to tell
Throwing karma through the roof, I'm happy as hell
Whether life slows down, or if it throws down
I'm beamin karma and I'm glad to be around
This city gets cold as ice, I'm out there
But my karma keeps me warm like some thermal underwear
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise if offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lips smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
(x2)
Your Karma... Something about Karma...
Your Karma... Somethin about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's something about Karma
Let me see out that window, I got sunshine for ya
Front me with that sad shit, I'll fuckin' ignore ya
My days are always fly days, unlike everybody else on them overcrowded highways
I says karma is worth more than money or love, or any of the above
Mine glows off, and shows off my charisma
I'm happy nobody say there is none.
Chorus:
I can make mountains get up and move out my way
Hear the paradise is offering me a place to stay.
I don't waste a day, I don't starve for nothing
I'm the karma millionair, always happy about something
I say live out your days, cause you ain't getting' shit back
Bitch around me will only get your lip smacked
Karma over any drug dealer supply
Cause I can do anything with it except die
(Repeat until end)
I'm all about karma, if I'm about something
Ain't nobody placed on this Earth for nothing
Watch me get to it, get on it, get live
While I'm still alive, and I'm soo alive)
(Repeat in background while above is playing)
Your Karma... its all about Karma...
Your Karma... its all about Karma
(YOUR LIFFFEEE)
Your Karma
(Your LIFFEE)
Your Karma
It's all about Karma
Lyrics submitted by th1rt3en
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