"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.
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right.
Some girls says I'm the cutest others says I'm the rudest, meditate like a budist expose em like a nudist,
I'm jesus they judas, my diamonds the bluest, got the answers they clueless, ashanti foolish.
I'm with a stewardess, mami say a flight attendant, called her a stupid bitch, sorry nah I might have ment it.
See I'm the type that ment it, 4 mill I might have spend it, but I got it back right back yeah yeah my life is splendid.
Me and mami drinking drinking till the point she earl, I'm about too swearl the world world wanna join me .
The clothes from Italy, the coke from Sicily, I'm talking littarly, c'mon now stop kidding me.
I don't kid at all, I get it all, get reed of it all, come and stay with me, where I live? the mall.
Back to bank, the dealer shop, and the rim shop, you know him slim before Mims I've been hot!
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
Yo, Miami listining to Brisco, I get it cooking like crisco, from Chi town back to Frisco, my diamonds like a disco.
Mami what the hell you ride, you know what the hell I like a hood bitch, strecth marks, ?bdbs? cellulite.
Baby we need eachother, don't wanna meet your mother, my mouth is like the sewer yeah yeah I keep it gutter.
I sell hot peas and butter, don't wanna see you suffer, nigga like me wouldn't meet another, you clogged up I be your plummer.
Sorta like drano. You know how the game go, different color cars our garage a rainbow, I'm the leprecon, but I sell methadon, marijuan, heroin, ten year run marathon.
My hood like lebanon, but that is benetton, you up in sumin fly, I got my weapon on, we get our chefin on chefin on everyday, I got the cookie cutter, mami the pepper spray.
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
Uhh, lets gets this guacamole, you feelin hot then hold me, you had your guard up at first like a soccer golie.
If I got it, you get it, baby I get it you got it, lets hit the pacific, terrific I'm feelin melotic.
Cus you lookin exotic, now you gettin erotic, like you straight from the tropics, wanna shoot it and cock it.
Not the blama baby girl I'm talkin sumin else, all she do is look and say cam you sumin else.
Listing love Iaint the one that get lovy dovy but you lookin good, you ever need a hobby lovely, you got too love me, shoots of bubble, get your mouth wet, you the outlet got to plug me!
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right.
Some girls says I'm the cutest others says I'm the rudest, meditate like a budist expose em like a nudist,
I'm jesus they judas, my diamonds the bluest, got the answers they clueless, ashanti foolish.
I'm with a stewardess, mami say a flight attendant, called her a stupid bitch, sorry nah I might have ment it.
See I'm the type that ment it, 4 mill I might have spend it, but I got it back right back yeah yeah my life is splendid.
Me and mami drinking drinking till the point she earl, I'm about too swearl the world world wanna join me .
The clothes from Italy, the coke from Sicily, I'm talking littarly, c'mon now stop kidding me.
I don't kid at all, I get it all, get reed of it all, come and stay with me, where I live? the mall.
Back to bank, the dealer shop, and the rim shop, you know him slim before Mims I've been hot!
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
Yo, Miami listining to Brisco, I get it cooking like crisco, from Chi town back to Frisco, my diamonds like a disco.
Mami what the hell you ride, you know what the hell I like a hood bitch, strecth marks, ?bdbs? cellulite.
Baby we need eachother, don't wanna meet your mother, my mouth is like the sewer yeah yeah I keep it gutter.
I sell hot peas and butter, don't wanna see you suffer, nigga like me wouldn't meet another, you clogged up I be your plummer.
Sorta like drano. You know how the game go, different color cars our garage a rainbow, I'm the leprecon, but I sell methadon, marijuan, heroin, ten year run marathon.
My hood like lebanon, but that is benetton, you up in sumin fly, I got my weapon on, we get our chefin on chefin on everyday, I got the cookie cutter, mami the pepper spray.
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
Uhh, lets gets this guacamole, you feelin hot then hold me, you had your guard up at first like a soccer golie.
If I got it, you get it, baby I get it you got it, lets hit the pacific, terrific I'm feelin melotic.
Cus you lookin exotic, now you gettin erotic, like you straight from the tropics, wanna shoot it and cock it.
Not the blama baby girl I'm talkin sumin else, all she do is look and say cam you sumin else.
Listing love Iaint the one that get lovy dovy but you lookin good, you ever need a hobby lovely, you got too love me, shoots of bubble, get your mouth wet, you the outlet got to plug me!
(Chorus)
Baby come and play and lay and stay with me girlfriend I'll change your life.
Spend the night with me we'll talk and chill and watch TV she said sure you're right
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Spend The Night Lyrics as written by Andre Dalyrimple Samuel J Barnes
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Cloud9
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