"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.
Six pack in hands
Stage dive to the pit
Hustle the ladies
Got guerilla tactics
I'm creepin' through the show
When I'm scanning for hoes
Girls got a bag of sniffers
Wanna do the no no
Yeah back to the bus
It's the end of the night
Get back to the bus
And get out of my life
'Cause I got people to see
Hoes as freaky as me
I roll it to the after party with my boy Charles P.
Picked up a few friends
Now I'm dippin' with bitches
Slapped the bitches to my right
I said click it or ticket
Girl feeling my ride
Now she's getting suspicious
This a brand new Miata
As I'm hittin' them switches
I ride behind Charlie
As he's poppin' a wheelie
I finally made it to the party
Now he's coppin' a feely
See Da Kurluzz out front doing tricks on his Heely's
Now I'm finna get down yelling somebody beer me
So chug this beer with me
Get drunk with Charlie Scene
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get drunk alone
So smoke this joint with me
Get high off Funny's weed
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get high alone
I roll up to the party in my Honda
Funny followed me in his Mazda Miata
Damn what a balla
Top down what a primadonna
The spinners that he bought
Straight outta auto zone for thirty dollars
Money we have nadda
Let's go inside I'll folla
They didn't let us in
So we hopped a
Wall but I dropped ya
That's when I lost ya
I didn't try ta call ya
I rain into a crowd of Celebrities and Papa-razzi and they shot a
Pictures of me and Dennis Harper
Now I need a doctor
Yo little Jhon-ya
Crunk juice and Vodka
Is turning me into a monster
One more shot and imma gon-ah
But Charlie Scene I saw ya stick your dick in the salsa
I don't want no drama
I'd rather have my anaconda
Deep throated by Piranas
So takes these pills with me
Got 'em from J-D-O-G
Sense this urgency
Cause I don't wanna get high alone
So take this Ecstasy
They must be J3T's
Sense this urgency
Cause I ain't tryna get down alone
Hey who's goin' to the rave tonight huh?
Hey we'll see Da Kurlzz there
He'll be there rave poppin'
Ah Odaele'...Fool...Who wants to get pussy?
So chug this beer with me
Get drunk with Charlie Scene
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get drunk alone
So smoke this joint with me
Get high off Funny's weed
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get high alone
Stage dive to the pit
Hustle the ladies
Got guerilla tactics
I'm creepin' through the show
When I'm scanning for hoes
Girls got a bag of sniffers
Wanna do the no no
Yeah back to the bus
It's the end of the night
Get back to the bus
And get out of my life
'Cause I got people to see
Hoes as freaky as me
I roll it to the after party with my boy Charles P.
Picked up a few friends
Now I'm dippin' with bitches
Slapped the bitches to my right
I said click it or ticket
Girl feeling my ride
Now she's getting suspicious
This a brand new Miata
As I'm hittin' them switches
I ride behind Charlie
As he's poppin' a wheelie
I finally made it to the party
Now he's coppin' a feely
See Da Kurluzz out front doing tricks on his Heely's
Now I'm finna get down yelling somebody beer me
So chug this beer with me
Get drunk with Charlie Scene
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get drunk alone
So smoke this joint with me
Get high off Funny's weed
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get high alone
I roll up to the party in my Honda
Funny followed me in his Mazda Miata
Damn what a balla
Top down what a primadonna
The spinners that he bought
Straight outta auto zone for thirty dollars
Money we have nadda
Let's go inside I'll folla
They didn't let us in
So we hopped a
Wall but I dropped ya
That's when I lost ya
I didn't try ta call ya
I rain into a crowd of Celebrities and Papa-razzi and they shot a
Pictures of me and Dennis Harper
Now I need a doctor
Yo little Jhon-ya
Crunk juice and Vodka
Is turning me into a monster
One more shot and imma gon-ah
But Charlie Scene I saw ya stick your dick in the salsa
I don't want no drama
I'd rather have my anaconda
Deep throated by Piranas
So takes these pills with me
Got 'em from J-D-O-G
Sense this urgency
Cause I don't wanna get high alone
So take this Ecstasy
They must be J3T's
Sense this urgency
Cause I ain't tryna get down alone
Hey who's goin' to the rave tonight huh?
Hey we'll see Da Kurlzz there
He'll be there rave poppin'
Ah Odaele'...Fool...Who wants to get pussy?
So chug this beer with me
Get drunk with Charlie Scene
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get drunk alone
So smoke this joint with me
Get high off Funny's weed
Sense this urgency
'Cause I ain't tryna get high alone
Lyrics submitted by mctracyism
El Urgencia Lyrics as written by Dylan Peter Alvarez Daniel Patrick Lohner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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