"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.
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Ocean's twelve, we play for keeps
When all the steaks are high and blick blick all opponents
Catch me lamping in the east, I rest my head where I'm anointed
Gali ting stay on my side, here for the thrill, cirque du soleil
And with her rollercoaster grip, I hang on tight when she start pouring
ATL, I skate off swiftly
When our bond don't form so quickly
4x4, this box we're in deep
Ain't gon hold me close from shindigs
Private parties feel like Mardi Gras, wore garments made of silk sheets
Popped up partly slump, she parallel parked her nigga then drove off with me
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Ntacyo waza umbaza ntacyo uzana kw'isahane yanjye
Kw'isi munda niho hayoboye kandi ntago
Mpaze
Kina wumve wiyibutse ko njye ndi n'umwam'uganje
Mena ikofi nsaze ino si ni njye kila siku bazi
Mpanga izi subizwa inyuma reka abo
Baheza nguni bayobaha mpiga sasu moja kwisha
Dollar dollar, Benja benja nizo ndi gushaka
Nzanye ingorofani nta n'itiyo microphone iraya yoza
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Ocean's twelve, we play for keeps
When all the steaks are high and blick blick all opponents
Catch me lamping in the east, I rest my head where I'm anointed
Gali ting stay on my side, here for the thrill, cirque du soleil
And with her rollercoaster grip, I hang on tight when she start pouring
ATL, I skate off swiftly
When our bond don't form so quickly
4x4, this box we're in deep
Ain't gon hold me close from shindigs
Private parties feel like Mardi Gras, wore garments made of silk sheets
Popped up partly slump, she parallel parked her nigga then drove off with me
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Ntacyo waza umbaza ntacyo uzana kw'isahane yanjye
Kw'isi munda niho hayoboye kandi ntago
Mpaze
Kina wumve wiyibutse ko njye ndi n'umwam'uganje
Mena ikofi nsaze ino si ni njye kila siku bazi
Mpanga izi subizwa inyuma reka abo
Baheza nguni bayobaha mpiga sasu moja kwisha
Dollar dollar, Benja benja nizo ndi gushaka
Nzanye ingorofani nta n'itiyo microphone iraya yoza
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
Alright now move
We're done with paying dues
Been bending all the corners just to straighten all our routes
We make the rules
That's how we rake the loot
The way I handle paper I'm a money made masseuse
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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