"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.
Yo, yo (12x)
Don't ya know
Yo Bashy
And I move like bore
Shank
Wet what if it's not
That your gettin nicked
With my korsh?
If you ever try
Getting next to my dosh
Or if you ever try
Get next to my Porsche
Your heads coming off
You lil tart
Take off your bra
Are you sexin or what?
I'm gunna ram
Your neck on my cock
And then your gonna fuck
My bredrin or what?
It's a laugh
It's a laugh
Until you get shot
Or your gettin' birded?
In the dark
Cuz they caught you
With rocks in your sock
And when you come out
You can't get a job
These little nobs
Don't understand fully
They just care about babes
And hoodies
They're on a hype till
They end up like trife
At the end of kidulthood
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
And I move
Like bottle
Pole
Bar crack fuck about
Hit you
With a bat like Sam
Kick it
Hit you with
A brick like plan
Five-0
Came everybody
Better scram
I love raving
When it gets ram
Let somebody think
He's a badman
I'll boy him off
Infront of the gal
Let that man know
Who's wicked and bad
But that breh might
Wanna come back might
Wanna kick it off
The next day
Cos he's got revenge
In his heart like Jay
So when he see's me
He's gunna get moody
And try do me
Really we should more
Like moony and go uni
React just
Like an should
Break the cycle
Like Sam
From adulthood
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
And I move like pirates
Raves, mixtape album
Done with the clashing
I've seen the outcome
Nuff badman
I won't be around
Dem nuff
MC's in the scene
That could out them
But allow them
Cos it's not about them
The roads are nuts
Like almonds
I'm a musician
And I use position
To influence thousands
Look
I said
I'm not on a hype
Cos I'm far
From a kidulthood
I'm much wiser
Blud
I'm older
I've grown up so now
I've gotta act
Like a grown up
I used to be wild
I was acting raggo
On the defensive
Acting paro
But now
I'm on the straight
And narrow
Cuzzy I've gone
From a kid
To an adult
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
Don't ya know
Yo Bashy
And I move like bore
Shank
Wet what if it's not
That your gettin nicked
With my korsh?
If you ever try
Getting next to my dosh
Or if you ever try
Get next to my Porsche
Your heads coming off
You lil tart
Take off your bra
Are you sexin or what?
I'm gunna ram
Your neck on my cock
And then your gonna fuck
My bredrin or what?
It's a laugh
It's a laugh
Until you get shot
Or your gettin' birded?
In the dark
Cuz they caught you
With rocks in your sock
And when you come out
You can't get a job
These little nobs
Don't understand fully
They just care about babes
And hoodies
They're on a hype till
They end up like trife
At the end of kidulthood
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
And I move
Like bottle
Pole
Bar crack fuck about
Hit you
With a bat like Sam
Kick it
Hit you with
A brick like plan
Five-0
Came everybody
Better scram
I love raving
When it gets ram
Let somebody think
He's a badman
I'll boy him off
Infront of the gal
Let that man know
Who's wicked and bad
But that breh might
Wanna come back might
Wanna kick it off
The next day
Cos he's got revenge
In his heart like Jay
So when he see's me
He's gunna get moody
And try do me
Really we should more
Like moony and go uni
React just
Like an should
Break the cycle
Like Sam
From adulthood
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
And I move like pirates
Raves, mixtape album
Done with the clashing
I've seen the outcome
Nuff badman
I won't be around
Dem nuff
MC's in the scene
That could out them
But allow them
Cos it's not about them
The roads are nuts
Like almonds
I'm a musician
And I use position
To influence thousands
Look
I said
I'm not on a hype
Cos I'm far
From a kidulthood
I'm much wiser
Blud
I'm older
I've grown up so now
I've gotta act
Like a grown up
I used to be wild
I was acting raggo
On the defensive
Acting paro
But now
I'm on the straight
And narrow
Cuzzy I've gone
From a kid
To an adult
(2x):
Gotta go
From kidulthood
To adulthood
(I know)
Now I must act
Like an adult
Would react
Like
An adult should
(I know)
I gotta break
The cycle
Cos if I go peng
And end up
Dead it's my fault
Lyrics submitted by Rafael Moliv
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