"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.
Ladies!
Now if your dude ain't actin' right you tell that dude (he got to go)
If that dude be claiming that he broke you tell that dude (he got to go)
If he want chu too stay in the house every day and night tell him (he got to go)
If he wanna run the streets then you run the streets too and you tell him (he got to go)
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby, baby, baby. Baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Tonight we gone switch up I'll do you, you do me
Tonight you gone stay home while I'm runnin' the (oh!) streets
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do think about that (oh!) baby?
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do think about that baby!
I'm a let chu play my cards
So you can feel like workin' hard
And when you just fall should let you call
So I can see it!
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Tonight you gone call me a thousands times
Tonight I'm gone make up a thousands lies
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do feel about that baby?
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do feel about that baby!
I'm a let chu play my cards
So you can feel like workin' hard
And when you just fall should let you call
So I can see it!
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight (that's right)
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Baby, baby (baby)
Somebody's gonna cry tonight (somebody's gonna cry tonight)
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh (oh oh oh)
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh) (tell me)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Ooohhh baby
Hey
Ladies!
Now if your dude ain't actin' right you tell that dude (he got to go)
If that dude be claiming that he broke you tell that dude (he got to go)
If he want chu too stay in the house every day and night tell him (he got to go)
If he wanna run the streets then you run the streets too and you tell him (he got to go)
Yea
Baby, baby
Babe baby
Baby somebody's gonna cry tonight oh, oh
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby!
Now if your dude ain't actin' right you tell that dude (he got to go)
If that dude be claiming that he broke you tell that dude (he got to go)
If he want chu too stay in the house every day and night tell him (he got to go)
If he wanna run the streets then you run the streets too and you tell him (he got to go)
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby, baby, baby. Baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Tonight we gone switch up I'll do you, you do me
Tonight you gone stay home while I'm runnin' the (oh!) streets
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do think about that (oh!) baby?
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do think about that baby!
I'm a let chu play my cards
So you can feel like workin' hard
And when you just fall should let you call
So I can see it!
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Tonight you gone call me a thousands times
Tonight I'm gone make up a thousands lies
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do feel about that baby?
What do you, what you do, what do you, what you do feel about that baby!
I'm a let chu play my cards
So you can feel like workin' hard
And when you just fall should let you call
So I can see it!
Baby, baby
Somebody's gonna cry tonight (that's right)
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Baby, baby (baby)
Somebody's gonna cry tonight (somebody's gonna cry tonight)
Baby, baby, baby, baby
But it won't be my tears tonight oh (oh oh oh)
So watcha think about that (oh)
Watcha think about it (oh) (tell me)
Watcha think about that, (oh) that, that
Ooh baby
Ooohhh baby
Hey
Ladies!
Now if your dude ain't actin' right you tell that dude (he got to go)
If that dude be claiming that he broke you tell that dude (he got to go)
If he want chu too stay in the house every day and night tell him (he got to go)
If he wanna run the streets then you run the streets too and you tell him (he got to go)
Yea
Baby, baby
Babe baby
Baby somebody's gonna cry tonight oh, oh
Somebody's gonna cry tonight
Baby!
Lyrics submitted by hectopascal
Whatcha Think About That Lyrics as written by Jason Lamont Perry Esther Dean
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Peermusic Publishing
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Great version of a great song,
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That's why the song doesn't work for me, it's like a desperate girlfriend's attempt for attention and revenge. Just toss the guy already! lol