"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.
Gotta get that
Gotta get that
Gotta get that
Gotta get that-that-that, that-that
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom
Yo
I got that hit to beat the block
You can get that bass on below
I got that rock 'n' roll
That future flow
That digital spit
Next level visual shit
I got that (boom boom boom)
How the beat bang (boom boom boom)
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagger
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008
You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
I'm on that supersonic boom
Y'all hear that spaceship zoom
When-when I step inside the room, them girls go apeshit, uh
Y'all stuck on Super 8 shit
That lo-fi stupid 8-bit
I'm on that HD flat
This beat go boom boom bap
I'm a beast when you turn me on
Into the future, Cybertron
Harder, faster, better, stronger
Sexy ladies, extra longer, 'cause
We got the beat that bounce
We got the beat that pounds
We got the beat, that 808
That boom boom in your town
People in the place
If you wanna get down
Put your hands in the air
will.i.am drop the beat now
Yep, yep
I be rockin' them beats (yep, yep)
I be rockin' them beats (yep, yep, yep, yep, ha, ha, ha)
Here we go, here we go
Satellite radio
Y'all getting hit with the (boom boom)
Beats so big, I'm steppin' on leprechauns
Shittin' on y'all with the (boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all with the (boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all with the
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagger
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008
You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
Let the beat rock (let the beat rock)
Let the beat rock (let the beat)
Let the beat rock (let the beat rock, rock, rock, rock)
Gotta get that
Gotta get that
Gotta get that-that-that, that-that
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom
Yo
I got that hit to beat the block
You can get that bass on below
I got that rock 'n' roll
That future flow
That digital spit
Next level visual shit
I got that (boom boom boom)
How the beat bang (boom boom boom)
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagger
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008
You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
I'm on that supersonic boom
Y'all hear that spaceship zoom
When-when I step inside the room, them girls go apeshit, uh
Y'all stuck on Super 8 shit
That lo-fi stupid 8-bit
I'm on that HD flat
This beat go boom boom bap
I'm a beast when you turn me on
Into the future, Cybertron
Harder, faster, better, stronger
Sexy ladies, extra longer, 'cause
We got the beat that bounce
We got the beat that pounds
We got the beat, that 808
That boom boom in your town
People in the place
If you wanna get down
Put your hands in the air
will.i.am drop the beat now
Yep, yep
I be rockin' them beats (yep, yep)
I be rockin' them beats (yep, yep, yep, yep, ha, ha, ha)
Here we go, here we go
Satellite radio
Y'all getting hit with the (boom boom)
Beats so big, I'm steppin' on leprechauns
Shittin' on y'all with the (boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all with the (boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all with the
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagger
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008
You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (gotta get that)
Boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
That boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
Let the beat rock (let the beat rock)
Let the beat rock (let the beat)
Let the beat rock (let the beat rock, rock, rock, rock)
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Radiohead
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Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran
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to me this song incorporates alot of the different styles we hear in pop radio these days. The vocoder, the 'haters' that diss them, the crazy infectious beats, the repetition, the talking about nothing.... it's almost satirical or like a parody. Its like they made a list of things that make a hit record and this is what came out of that formula, yet it still has this original sound although its brought nothing new at all.
I HATE the BEP and I fuckin' jizzed when will i am died in the new x-men movie but this song will be on my list of favourite songs of all time. It displeases me but this song is too good to be true. I secretly scan the radio in search of it.