"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.
YUUHH
Hey its your calvary kids!
And we got a new song for yall, its called soulja boy!
By the way, I got me some new BATHIN' APES!
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
Now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me lean and watch me rock
Superman dat hoe
Then watch me crank dat robocop
super fresh now watch me jock
jocking on those haters man
When I do dat souljer boy
I lean to the left and crank dat dance
(now YOUU)
I'm jocking on yo bitch ass
and if we get the fightin
then I'm cockin on yo bitch ass
you catch me at your local party
yes I crank it everyday
haterz get mad cuz
"I got me some bathin apes"
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
Now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
I'm bouncin on my toe
watch me supersoak that hoe
I'ma pass it to billin
he's goin crank it up fo sho!
haterz wanna be me
Soulja boy, I'm the man
They be lookin at my neck
sayin it's the rubberband man (man)
watch me do it (watch me do it)
dance (dance)
Like me too (Like me too)
No, you cant do it like me
Hoe, so dont do like me
Folk, I see you tryna do it like me
Man, that shit was ugly
Soulja boy off in this hoe
watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
Now watch me do!!
Hey its your calvary kids!
And we got a new song for yall, its called soulja boy!
By the way, I got me some new BATHIN' APES!
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
Now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me lean and watch me rock
Superman dat hoe
Then watch me crank dat robocop
super fresh now watch me jock
jocking on those haters man
When I do dat souljer boy
I lean to the left and crank dat dance
(now YOUU)
I'm jocking on yo bitch ass
and if we get the fightin
then I'm cockin on yo bitch ass
you catch me at your local party
yes I crank it everyday
haterz get mad cuz
"I got me some bathin apes"
Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
Now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
I'm bouncin on my toe
watch me supersoak that hoe
I'ma pass it to billin
he's goin crank it up fo sho!
haterz wanna be me
Soulja boy, I'm the man
They be lookin at my neck
sayin it's the rubberband man (man)
watch me do it (watch me do it)
dance (dance)
Like me too (Like me too)
No, you cant do it like me
Hoe, so dont do like me
Folk, I see you tryna do it like me
Man, that shit was ugly
Soulja boy off in this hoe
watch me crank it
watch me roll
watch me crank dat soulja boy
Then superman dat hoe
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
now watch me do
(crank dat soulja boy)
(x2)
Now watch me do!!
Lyrics submitted by princessKATIE
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My throat hurts just hearing this.