"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.
woo! hey this is the g child. spacekateers!
are you in the house baby, are you in the house
you know what I'm sayin?
cause it's that time for you to gets the funk on line as we rewind and then we'll combine...
[WARREN G]
Smokin on the bud, feelin kind of high
sippin on the gin, feelin kind of fly
a Warren G production sits in the tape deck
as Mista Grimm raps over laps, don't say shit yet
listen and recline for a spill
pass the fat spliff back n forth (oh yeah)
stuck, on a bowl to three to the chronic cloud
that somehow prevents me from inhaling fresh air
aah, indo smoke
pass me the joint so I can take a toke
one puff, two puff, three puff, four puff, five
I'm feelin real high
leanin to the side in my muthafuckin ride
with the OG gangsta glide
woo! hey, now you know
inhale, exhale with my flow
breakaway, come again like this
the L-B to the C, two times don't miss
cause if you do, you break, you get broke
me and Mista G, and the indo smoke...
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[MISTA G]
Fee, Fi, Foe, really tho
I'm still smokin and sippin talking like a pimp
reakin, seekin new lands with no transport
cause indo smoke is a man's sport
I never feel stressed and that's the realest
just the proper herb for my chronic illness
please!! let me go on with my day
relax with phat tracks and a real fat jay
ooh, I think I'm in love
astounded from what it did, sending me far above
on a flag pole I can write for days
you can't swim with Grimm cause my title wave's high
and that's no joke
cause Mista Grimm takes flight from the indo smoke
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[MISTA G]
Ignition to admission, blast off through the cos'
most of the voyage I enjoy is just a cause
a sonic boom when I return back to earth,
birth of a new rhyme will take no time
I'm prepared - papers and a lighter to provoke
a comical sin to watch Mista Grimm choke then gain composure
create a symphony from C-H-R-O-N-I-C and Mista G
mixed together nice
combining with a lining?? voi la
a fat chronic sack you can put in ya jar
H & I puff the stuff in ya lung
smoking on the chronic, gettng straight sprung
stressed, taken to the extreme feeling
dancing on the cieling like Lionel
if you hear me on some vinyl, I'll break it til it can't be broke as I soak...in the indo smoke
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[NATE DOGG]
TAKE A TRIP WITH NATE DOG TO THE EAST SIDE
WE WILL SHOW YOU WHERE THE GANGSTAS LIKE TO GET HIGH
WE GET HIGH ON EVERY STREET IN LONG BEACH
SO DON'T COME TO MY HOOD THINKING THAT YOU CAN PLAY ME
NIGGAS FROM FUNNY LAND WANNA COME TO THE EAST & BAYFIELD....................
are you in the house baby, are you in the house
you know what I'm sayin?
cause it's that time for you to gets the funk on line as we rewind and then we'll combine...
[WARREN G]
Smokin on the bud, feelin kind of high
sippin on the gin, feelin kind of fly
a Warren G production sits in the tape deck
as Mista Grimm raps over laps, don't say shit yet
listen and recline for a spill
pass the fat spliff back n forth (oh yeah)
stuck, on a bowl to three to the chronic cloud
that somehow prevents me from inhaling fresh air
aah, indo smoke
pass me the joint so I can take a toke
one puff, two puff, three puff, four puff, five
I'm feelin real high
leanin to the side in my muthafuckin ride
with the OG gangsta glide
woo! hey, now you know
inhale, exhale with my flow
breakaway, come again like this
the L-B to the C, two times don't miss
cause if you do, you break, you get broke
me and Mista G, and the indo smoke...
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[MISTA G]
Fee, Fi, Foe, really tho
I'm still smokin and sippin talking like a pimp
reakin, seekin new lands with no transport
cause indo smoke is a man's sport
I never feel stressed and that's the realest
just the proper herb for my chronic illness
please!! let me go on with my day
relax with phat tracks and a real fat jay
ooh, I think I'm in love
astounded from what it did, sending me far above
on a flag pole I can write for days
you can't swim with Grimm cause my title wave's high
and that's no joke
cause Mista Grimm takes flight from the indo smoke
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[MISTA G]
Ignition to admission, blast off through the cos'
most of the voyage I enjoy is just a cause
a sonic boom when I return back to earth,
birth of a new rhyme will take no time
I'm prepared - papers and a lighter to provoke
a comical sin to watch Mista Grimm choke then gain composure
create a symphony from C-H-R-O-N-I-C and Mista G
mixed together nice
combining with a lining?? voi la
a fat chronic sack you can put in ya jar
H & I puff the stuff in ya lung
smoking on the chronic, gettng straight sprung
stressed, taken to the extreme feeling
dancing on the cieling like Lionel
if you hear me on some vinyl, I'll break it til it can't be broke as I soak...in the indo smoke
Are you high yet?
Whatever you do muthafucka you bet' not choke
Are you high yet?
This ain't no stress it's the muthafuckin indo smoke (x2)
[NATE DOGG]
TAKE A TRIP WITH NATE DOG TO THE EAST SIDE
WE WILL SHOW YOU WHERE THE GANGSTAS LIKE TO GET HIGH
WE GET HIGH ON EVERY STREET IN LONG BEACH
SO DON'T COME TO MY HOOD THINKING THAT YOU CAN PLAY ME
NIGGAS FROM FUNNY LAND WANNA COME TO THE EAST & BAYFIELD....................
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