"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.
mmmm
yeah
life goes on
[hook]
they told me to make another song for the radio (radio)
my mind keep telling me yes
but my heart keep telling me no (no)
and all i can really think about is the fact that you're gone (fact that your gone)
so now it looks like i got another sad song
[chorus] x2
Life goes on (goes on)
life goes on
life goes on baby
life goes on
yeah
they was watching my pocket
while i was popin my tags
staying friends with my friends has been the imposible task
if i had a dollar for every friend i thought that would last
i'd hit my head on the ceiling standing on top of my cash
you just trying to be playa
they just trying to play you
soon as you get in some trouble
well see whos trying to save you
promise you that the day hit me with betrayal
i'mma smell your cologne i'll be so close on your trail
and the homie you really thought was real is the snitch
i'm the person you call when you tryna get out a ditch
yeah i'm talking to you
wear the shoe if it fits
the broke people that know you gon say you changed when you rich
i'm on the screen shining so get with the program
moneys the team baby and i am the spokesman
the trophy is more grands
i hold it with both hand
i shook of the haters after i told them
[Chorus] x2
haha
i used to be such a player
till i hoped out of the game
plenty knowledge and dollars
went to college with fame
used to look your relationships like a positive thing
till i turned into a bank account
to deposit your bling
used to be such a player
but now i'm only a ref
so when i tell you you fouled
well you can only accept
still hungry as ever
somebody show me a chef
appetite for the money
so stick a fork in the rest
unless you callin my mother
i know she love me the best
still in love with my money
cause money love to death
used to promis my lady we'd have the lovliest sex
was in love withe the honeys
but they just loved me then left
all the groupies thats callin me thought i didnt exist
yeah i'm talking to you
wear the shoe if it fits
she put death on her lips
tryed to give me a kiss
but i turned my head away so shed miss now
[chorus] x2
[hook]
yeah
cause i aint speaking through music to try to get you to dance
tryna get you to just see the bigger picture at glance
record label get mad
you can keep the advance
you can blame it on me
say it was me when they ask
yeah it came with a mic
they had came with a knife
yeah he died on the spot
but after saving his wife
see the pain that i write
it aint a thing or a sight
aint a thing cause really i'm just explaining my life
i could tell you to smile but it would sound kinda sad
i could talk about music but it would sound like i'm mad
cause the first thing i thought of bout when my pen hit the pad
before i finish this song another partner passed
[chorus] x2
yes it does
life goes on and on and on
and on
onn
onnnn
life goes on
yeahhhh
yes it does
yeah
life goes on
[hook]
they told me to make another song for the radio (radio)
my mind keep telling me yes
but my heart keep telling me no (no)
and all i can really think about is the fact that you're gone (fact that your gone)
so now it looks like i got another sad song
[chorus] x2
Life goes on (goes on)
life goes on
life goes on baby
life goes on
yeah
they was watching my pocket
while i was popin my tags
staying friends with my friends has been the imposible task
if i had a dollar for every friend i thought that would last
i'd hit my head on the ceiling standing on top of my cash
you just trying to be playa
they just trying to play you
soon as you get in some trouble
well see whos trying to save you
promise you that the day hit me with betrayal
i'mma smell your cologne i'll be so close on your trail
and the homie you really thought was real is the snitch
i'm the person you call when you tryna get out a ditch
yeah i'm talking to you
wear the shoe if it fits
the broke people that know you gon say you changed when you rich
i'm on the screen shining so get with the program
moneys the team baby and i am the spokesman
the trophy is more grands
i hold it with both hand
i shook of the haters after i told them
[Chorus] x2
haha
i used to be such a player
till i hoped out of the game
plenty knowledge and dollars
went to college with fame
used to look your relationships like a positive thing
till i turned into a bank account
to deposit your bling
used to be such a player
but now i'm only a ref
so when i tell you you fouled
well you can only accept
still hungry as ever
somebody show me a chef
appetite for the money
so stick a fork in the rest
unless you callin my mother
i know she love me the best
still in love with my money
cause money love to death
used to promis my lady we'd have the lovliest sex
was in love withe the honeys
but they just loved me then left
all the groupies thats callin me thought i didnt exist
yeah i'm talking to you
wear the shoe if it fits
she put death on her lips
tryed to give me a kiss
but i turned my head away so shed miss now
[chorus] x2
[hook]
yeah
cause i aint speaking through music to try to get you to dance
tryna get you to just see the bigger picture at glance
record label get mad
you can keep the advance
you can blame it on me
say it was me when they ask
yeah it came with a mic
they had came with a knife
yeah he died on the spot
but after saving his wife
see the pain that i write
it aint a thing or a sight
aint a thing cause really i'm just explaining my life
i could tell you to smile but it would sound kinda sad
i could talk about music but it would sound like i'm mad
cause the first thing i thought of bout when my pen hit the pad
before i finish this song another partner passed
[chorus] x2
yes it does
life goes on and on and on
and on
onn
onnnn
life goes on
yeahhhh
yes it does
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