"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.
It's like being born with someone else's psychology
I mean putting it on you because of maybe the things that they've had done to them in their lives
Maybe they wanna take it out on you, maybe they dont know they're taking it out on you
But one way or another it gets taken out on you and ah
Maybe you're innocent, maybe you're just a human being that was brought into the world without any choice, you know just
I'm here and I don't know what I need, I don't know what I want but I know that you're the person that's supposed to be taking care of me, right?
Right. Well you know those days, you know when i'm sensitive maybe you think that i'm feeling like you, but i'm not feeling like you.
I'm feeling way different than that.
Most of the time i'm feeling like me and just because I feel like me makes you not understand me so
thats when all the abuse starts
thats when all the crazy motherfucking abuse starts
its like mental attraction when youre just a little kid, you know, you're just fucking doing the things you do. You dont know what the fuck is going on and
Maybe those days are gone, maybe its now, maybe im better
maybe its not maybe i don't care
But I'd like to let go, i'd like to let go.
Some of this...Some of this resentment
Some of this resentment, some of this resentment
I tried to explain my thoughts so many times
I just took a fuckin pen and wrote some shit down and
Sometimes i fuckin was in a room all by myself and there was a fuckin mic in front of me
and I just had to fuckin get it out
and sometimes i just fuckin don't know what I need and I got somebody saying fred this is what you need
Come on man get down here dude the mic's on and i'm like alright fuck it
I got something to say worth saying. I don't run around and preach my shit all the fucking time. I took a breather.
A few years, several as a matter of fact. you can't have something to say if you're always saying something.
Right about now I think ive been quiet long enough. So i'm gonna say something sayabel. I'm a say something once and I ain't never gonna repeat it again
because this is how im feeling. Im losing this
and im fucking fed up with you and im fed up with this shit and you know who the fuck im talking to
We got a beef yeah its lasted long and long and long enough.
But im here for you dog, and i'm here, and i'm here to stay tough
You do what I do this ain't fucking spoken word this is me goddamnit this is me
Get the picture?
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall Some of this resentment)
welcome to the place where the meli hides
welcome to my mind to the place that decides yall
all the things that i decide
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall
welcome to the place where the killing the begins
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall
kill me, its killing me,
Maybe it's just a build up
if it's a build up thats so strong, its so strong
its been too long goddamnit
so maybe theres a build up
how many of you so silly words words before
So strong so fucking strong goddamnit
Yeah I figured out i'm farthur than that
My souless man i'm fucking on the edge
On the brink of insanity
And I know that i'm feeling my mind right there and I know that I'm un fucking stoppable
Cuz I cannot stop this and that means I cant stop myself
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want.
I mean putting it on you because of maybe the things that they've had done to them in their lives
Maybe they wanna take it out on you, maybe they dont know they're taking it out on you
But one way or another it gets taken out on you and ah
Maybe you're innocent, maybe you're just a human being that was brought into the world without any choice, you know just
I'm here and I don't know what I need, I don't know what I want but I know that you're the person that's supposed to be taking care of me, right?
Right. Well you know those days, you know when i'm sensitive maybe you think that i'm feeling like you, but i'm not feeling like you.
I'm feeling way different than that.
Most of the time i'm feeling like me and just because I feel like me makes you not understand me so
thats when all the abuse starts
thats when all the crazy motherfucking abuse starts
its like mental attraction when youre just a little kid, you know, you're just fucking doing the things you do. You dont know what the fuck is going on and
Maybe those days are gone, maybe its now, maybe im better
maybe its not maybe i don't care
But I'd like to let go, i'd like to let go.
Some of this...Some of this resentment
Some of this resentment, some of this resentment
I tried to explain my thoughts so many times
I just took a fuckin pen and wrote some shit down and
Sometimes i fuckin was in a room all by myself and there was a fuckin mic in front of me
and I just had to fuckin get it out
and sometimes i just fuckin don't know what I need and I got somebody saying fred this is what you need
Come on man get down here dude the mic's on and i'm like alright fuck it
I got something to say worth saying. I don't run around and preach my shit all the fucking time. I took a breather.
A few years, several as a matter of fact. you can't have something to say if you're always saying something.
Right about now I think ive been quiet long enough. So i'm gonna say something sayabel. I'm a say something once and I ain't never gonna repeat it again
because this is how im feeling. Im losing this
and im fucking fed up with you and im fed up with this shit and you know who the fuck im talking to
We got a beef yeah its lasted long and long and long enough.
But im here for you dog, and i'm here, and i'm here to stay tough
You do what I do this ain't fucking spoken word this is me goddamnit this is me
Get the picture?
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall Some of this resentment)
welcome to the place where the meli hides
welcome to my mind to the place that decides yall
all the things that i decide
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall
welcome to the place where the killing the begins
welcome to my mind to my mind to my mind yall
kill me, its killing me,
Maybe it's just a build up
if it's a build up thats so strong, its so strong
its been too long goddamnit
so maybe theres a build up
how many of you so silly words words before
So strong so fucking strong goddamnit
Yeah I figured out i'm farthur than that
My souless man i'm fucking on the edge
On the brink of insanity
And I know that i'm feeling my mind right there and I know that I'm un fucking stoppable
Cuz I cannot stop this and that means I cant stop myself
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I do, from anything that I say, from anything that I want, from anything that I breathe
From anything that I make, from anything that I say, from anything that I want.
Lyrics submitted by Heartahimfan666
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