"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.
Wha' me say, fukin' haters you know
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
When tings doh pop off, dem a smile and dey laugh
Dem would, ah, love to see you fall by the waste side
Dem holla big up your past, spread for you, down fall fast
And trigger both bomb blasts, like dem nah no pride
Let's give love to the yout' dem
When dem brother murder? Fe nothing no way
Send out me seeds to the yout dem
Praise the all mighty don't go astray
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Unu dem dey a talk, that's true me white like chalk
Likkle little ? hole bwoy, go play they realest card
Dem holla aye p'wan me yard
That's true me modda mother work hard
Hundred foot 'cause she wan swim in ah the tide
Let's give love to the yout' dem
Who Jah bless no man curse no way
Send out me seeds to the yout' dem
Only faith cause tomorrow's another day
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy love, lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Unu cya tell me nothing Mr. Envy
Lose it a lengthy, advice for that, ah, send me?
'Nough people out there rotten, chattin' and dem friend me
But behind my back dem wan end me
But me nah give a damn, buy house and a piece a land
Me walk in, ah, me Timberland, no tell me about no simpleton?
It's true unu see me damn, only Father feed me and
You nah wan see me cross the line, unu better now
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
I'm blind to you, unu better now
Said, I'm blind to you, unu better now
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
When tings doh pop off, dem a smile and dey laugh
Dem would, ah, love to see you fall by the waste side
Dem holla big up your past, spread for you, down fall fast
And trigger both bomb blasts, like dem nah no pride
Let's give love to the yout' dem
When dem brother murder? Fe nothing no way
Send out me seeds to the yout dem
Praise the all mighty don't go astray
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Unu dem dey a talk, that's true me white like chalk
Likkle little ? hole bwoy, go play they realest card
Dem holla aye p'wan me yard
That's true me modda mother work hard
Hundred foot 'cause she wan swim in ah the tide
Let's give love to the yout' dem
Who Jah bless no man curse no way
Send out me seeds to the yout' dem
Only faith cause tomorrow's another day
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy love, lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Unu cya tell me nothing Mr. Envy
Lose it a lengthy, advice for that, ah, send me?
'Nough people out there rotten, chattin' and dem friend me
But behind my back dem wan end me
But me nah give a damn, buy house and a piece a land
Me walk in, ah, me Timberland, no tell me about no simpleton?
It's true unu see me damn, only Father feed me and
You nah wan see me cross the line, unu better now
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me war instigators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
Said, I'm blind to you haters
See ya touch me room of creators
Me say me busy, love lately
Ask you how the world, ah, run so
I'm blind to you, unu better now
Said, I'm blind to you, unu better now
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Brilliant.I just don't understand why people who don't know the lyrics feel the need to spam the internet with their totally wrong nonsense. Thanks for putting the correct words out there Valerielovesme :-)