"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.
Fuck what this world has to offer lil bitch
I hate it, i hate it, i hate it, i hate it
Bitch I'm a god in the flesh of a human n
Can't take it, can't take it, can't take it, can't take it
I read you fuck niggas like books so ur words
U can save bitch, can save bitch, can save bitch, can save bitch
They take my kindness for weakness but
Don't get it mistaken, mistaken, mistaken, mistaken
Heart frozen bitch
I'm knowin' bitch
My book open bitch
U still can't go in bitch
Pistol totin
Leave u frozen
I feel chosen
Fuck a prophecy i leave that bitch broken
It's christmas we spin on the ops like
A dreidel, a dreidel, a dreidel, a dreidel
She ask wut we are I'm independent
Fuck labels, fuck labels, fuck labels, fuck labels
My mental health more like mental hell
It's not stable, not stable, not stable, not stable
Happiness so hard to imagine a nigga
Unable, unable, unable, unable
I'm at rock bottom time to smoke to get higher
Damn bitch u look good in the light of my lighter
We go rounds like a gun i leave that bitch tired
If u ain't shakin ass lil bitch u is fired
I feel like kirk cousins u like that? bitch
That nigga all bark but i bite back bitch
Won't catch me on my knees for a nigga i fight back bitch
If u slide but don't kill me plz slide back bitch
She took a shot of my children aye
She gon get shot wit my children aye
Y'all takin fake dubs but i'm takin real wins
Truth tatted on but i got some real sins
Don't let me get my hands onna strap
Cuz if i do than i promise it's wraps
I text my shorty shorty wya
Every time that she leave i tell her come back like
Where you goin? bitch
Yk where home is bitch
Bitch u all in aye
N you know it bitch
Ain't shit sweet bitch the clique will walk u down
I promise, i promise, i promise, i promise
I can't cuff a treesh bitch i need me
A goddess, a goddess, a goddess, a goddess
U simply levels beneath me if I'm
Being honest, being honest, being honest, bitch honest
Y'all niggas lame dumb n lazy make me wanna
Vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit
Ain't shit sweet bitch the clique will walk u down
I promise, i promise, i promise, i promise
I can't cuff a treesh bitch i need me
A goddess, a goddess, a goddess, a goddess
U simply levels beneath me if I'm
Being honest, being honest, being honest, bitch honest
Y'all niggas lame dumb n lazy make me wanna
Vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit
I hate it, i hate it, i hate it, i hate it
Bitch I'm a god in the flesh of a human n
Can't take it, can't take it, can't take it, can't take it
I read you fuck niggas like books so ur words
U can save bitch, can save bitch, can save bitch, can save bitch
They take my kindness for weakness but
Don't get it mistaken, mistaken, mistaken, mistaken
Heart frozen bitch
I'm knowin' bitch
My book open bitch
U still can't go in bitch
Pistol totin
Leave u frozen
I feel chosen
Fuck a prophecy i leave that bitch broken
It's christmas we spin on the ops like
A dreidel, a dreidel, a dreidel, a dreidel
She ask wut we are I'm independent
Fuck labels, fuck labels, fuck labels, fuck labels
My mental health more like mental hell
It's not stable, not stable, not stable, not stable
Happiness so hard to imagine a nigga
Unable, unable, unable, unable
I'm at rock bottom time to smoke to get higher
Damn bitch u look good in the light of my lighter
We go rounds like a gun i leave that bitch tired
If u ain't shakin ass lil bitch u is fired
I feel like kirk cousins u like that? bitch
That nigga all bark but i bite back bitch
Won't catch me on my knees for a nigga i fight back bitch
If u slide but don't kill me plz slide back bitch
She took a shot of my children aye
She gon get shot wit my children aye
Y'all takin fake dubs but i'm takin real wins
Truth tatted on but i got some real sins
Don't let me get my hands onna strap
Cuz if i do than i promise it's wraps
I text my shorty shorty wya
Every time that she leave i tell her come back like
Where you goin? bitch
Yk where home is bitch
Bitch u all in aye
N you know it bitch
Ain't shit sweet bitch the clique will walk u down
I promise, i promise, i promise, i promise
I can't cuff a treesh bitch i need me
A goddess, a goddess, a goddess, a goddess
U simply levels beneath me if I'm
Being honest, being honest, being honest, bitch honest
Y'all niggas lame dumb n lazy make me wanna
Vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit
Ain't shit sweet bitch the clique will walk u down
I promise, i promise, i promise, i promise
I can't cuff a treesh bitch i need me
A goddess, a goddess, a goddess, a goddess
U simply levels beneath me if I'm
Being honest, being honest, being honest, bitch honest
Y'all niggas lame dumb n lazy make me wanna
Vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit, bitch vomit
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don't get it mistaken. Lyrics as written by Jadon Litzbarski Mclean
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