"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.
Yeah
Go hard today
(The past is the past you know)
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
(It's a new day, bro)
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
(My day gotta do it now)
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my
(This what we been waitin' for right y'all, this moment right here)
If your with me let me hear you say
It's my time
My, my, my, my
(Loso, The Runners)
Oh, it's my time
Guess what time it is my, my, my time
You can check your iPhone better say it's our time
I don't even need a watch, I don't even see a clock
Soon as a I walk in it feel like me o'clock (nice)
Give me a clock every time my checks
Don't measure up and try and blame the Pyrex (damn)
I'ma do it bigger than a 5-X
Can't ride with an L, so I don't drive Lex'
Game's so bickery (uh-huh), so full of trickery (uh-huh)
Nursery rhyming, hickory-dickory
Blowing that sour (woo), the hood call it pickory
Biggie, Puffy, Busta, victory
Go hard today
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
My time's more like fly time
Don't call it gettin' dressed, call it in the sky time
If you ain't a pilot you probably couldn't style it
'Less you was a stewardess, you won't know what to do with this
First I take the time out then I put the time in (uh-huh)
Money ain't everything it's more about the timing (timing)
So I got the Audemar, flawless diamonds (yeah)
In other words that's called perfect timing (woo)
I feel like a favor (uh-huh), I feel like a savior (uh-huh)
They clockin' my neck, I feel like I'm Flavor
I go so hard
Loso, God
Damn, street, fi-di-di-di-damn
Go hard today
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
09' all mine, it's been a few years
Now it's me, about time
You know I've got committed wit' it since I've been up in the zone
Sign the dotted line
Now it's on
So y'all better check your wrist piece, why?
'Cause it's time to make history, yeah
Since I been here up on this hit streak
How the, how the, how the hell you gon' evict me? (yeah)
You know I'm here stay, never clockin' out
With bottles we poppin' now
No tellin' when we stopping now
And I represent the CHIC-A-G-O
On the track with F-A-B-O
You know we
Go hard (go hard) today (today)
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday (hey)
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time (oh)
Hey, hey, hey, hey (my time)
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), (my time) my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
Go hard today
(The past is the past you know)
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
(It's a new day, bro)
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
(My day gotta do it now)
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my
(This what we been waitin' for right y'all, this moment right here)
If your with me let me hear you say
It's my time
My, my, my, my
(Loso, The Runners)
Oh, it's my time
Guess what time it is my, my, my time
You can check your iPhone better say it's our time
I don't even need a watch, I don't even see a clock
Soon as a I walk in it feel like me o'clock (nice)
Give me a clock every time my checks
Don't measure up and try and blame the Pyrex (damn)
I'ma do it bigger than a 5-X
Can't ride with an L, so I don't drive Lex'
Game's so bickery (uh-huh), so full of trickery (uh-huh)
Nursery rhyming, hickory-dickory
Blowing that sour (woo), the hood call it pickory
Biggie, Puffy, Busta, victory
Go hard today
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
My time's more like fly time
Don't call it gettin' dressed, call it in the sky time
If you ain't a pilot you probably couldn't style it
'Less you was a stewardess, you won't know what to do with this
First I take the time out then I put the time in (uh-huh)
Money ain't everything it's more about the timing (timing)
So I got the Audemar, flawless diamonds (yeah)
In other words that's called perfect timing (woo)
I feel like a favor (uh-huh), I feel like a savior (uh-huh)
They clockin' my neck, I feel like I'm Flavor
I go so hard
Loso, God
Damn, street, fi-di-di-di-damn
Go hard today
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time
Hey, hey, hey, hey
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
09' all mine, it's been a few years
Now it's me, about time
You know I've got committed wit' it since I've been up in the zone
Sign the dotted line
Now it's on
So y'all better check your wrist piece, why?
'Cause it's time to make history, yeah
Since I been here up on this hit streak
How the, how the, how the hell you gon' evict me? (yeah)
You know I'm here stay, never clockin' out
With bottles we poppin' now
No tellin' when we stopping now
And I represent the CHIC-A-G-O
On the track with F-A-B-O
You know we
Go hard (go hard) today (today)
Can't worry 'bout the past 'cause that yesterday (hey)
I'ma put it on the line 'cause it's my time (oh)
Hey, hey, hey, hey (my time)
I gotta stay on my grind 'cause it's my time (hey)
My time (hey), (my time) my time (hey)
If you wit' me let me hear you say (c'mon)
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
If your with me let me hear you say
My, my, my, my (da-da-da-da)
Oh, it's my time
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