"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.
soulja boy:
arab man i just came back from the mall man guess what i got?
arab:
man what you get soulja boy?
soulja boy:
man i got me some bathing apes
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
soulja boy:
check out my bathing apes
i'm fresh to def and you like me
don't try to cop my style man stick to them nikes
green white black and side D
super clean bathing apes
my shoes like my chain shine hard they might hurt your face
i'm clean in this thing
b - a - p - e - s up on my feet
fresh fade with them waves
them dirty dirty boys up on my team
you wanna get em (yep!)
but you cant get like me (nope!)
ask a nig soulja boy where you get your shoes (hoe!)
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
arab:
bathing apes on my feet
and you niggas ??? kicks
purple yellow white like my kobe bryant jersey
you ain't never see these shoes
and let me tell you something son
you see how fresh these bitches is?
these are not no fucking ones
step on the stage with my mouth all froze
bathing apes on my feet put the crowd on hold
hatas see em on my feet, i know they get mad a little
arab rocking more colors than a bag of skittles
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
soulja boy:
bathing apes on my feet
so i gotta keep it moving
step up on the scene
tell the hoe to start choosing
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
bathin apes on my feet
so i gotta keep it moving
step up on the scene
tell da hoe to start choosing
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe! yaah!)
chorus: (until fade)
i got me some bathing apes
arab man i just came back from the mall man guess what i got?
arab:
man what you get soulja boy?
soulja boy:
man i got me some bathing apes
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
soulja boy:
check out my bathing apes
i'm fresh to def and you like me
don't try to cop my style man stick to them nikes
green white black and side D
super clean bathing apes
my shoes like my chain shine hard they might hurt your face
i'm clean in this thing
b - a - p - e - s up on my feet
fresh fade with them waves
them dirty dirty boys up on my team
you wanna get em (yep!)
but you cant get like me (nope!)
ask a nig soulja boy where you get your shoes (hoe!)
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
arab:
bathing apes on my feet
and you niggas ??? kicks
purple yellow white like my kobe bryant jersey
you ain't never see these shoes
and let me tell you something son
you see how fresh these bitches is?
these are not no fucking ones
step on the stage with my mouth all froze
bathing apes on my feet put the crowd on hold
hatas see em on my feet, i know they get mad a little
arab rocking more colors than a bag of skittles
chorus:
i got me some bathing apes
soulja boy:
bathing apes on my feet
so i gotta keep it moving
step up on the scene
tell the hoe to start choosing
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
bathin apes on my feet
so i gotta keep it moving
step up on the scene
tell da hoe to start choosing
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe!)
(start choosing hoe! yaah!)
chorus: (until fade)
i got me some bathing apes
Lyrics submitted by michelle.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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omg. This song is way better than crank dat xcept the chorus is way too repetitive.