"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.
Got a ball and a biscuit a bullet and a Triscuit
Got your knees bucklin' like a torn up meniscus
Got your buddy askin' you man what is this
I can't talk shit dog it's too good to dis this
Well it's the dirty heads man they straight from the pacific
I don't really like 'em they kind of dip-shits
This one's a drunk while the other gets lifted
This one's a punk you don't believe me just listen
'Cause I'm mischievous and I got the sickest word play
Like Sid vicious and the pistols rocked the U.K.
Cause I'm a vandal off the handle that's what you say
Give me a beat and I will gladly pay you Tuesday
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
And if you want to say something to the audio professionals
Then speak into the microphone it's right above my testicles
Got you haggered M-C's runnin' hiding under vestibules
Rhymes like everybody man they kinda like bisexuals
Pops is a carpenter mom's is an arm twister
Blah blah blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah mister
Move it along mister fuck it along mister
You can grab my dick don't give a shit and get a palm blister
I know you love the dirty heads always be blaring 'em
I'm doctoring your pussies like a veterinarian
You whinin' like a baby maybe need a cesarean
Man Dirty J is wasted boy you better take care of him
It's the hip hop misfits straight from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
I don't mind being knocked off ridiculed made to feel minuscule
When you consider the source it's kinda pitiful
When you consider the force it's kinda beautiful
When you consider the choice it's quite unusual
Took it from Slipknot and flipped it to hip hop
Walkin' the tight rope the way to the tip top
You think that your punk rock you're wearing a faux hawk
You're not your just teen pop you need to just stop
Because you're not a
Hip hop misfit yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfit yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Got your knees bucklin' like a torn up meniscus
Got your buddy askin' you man what is this
I can't talk shit dog it's too good to dis this
Well it's the dirty heads man they straight from the pacific
I don't really like 'em they kind of dip-shits
This one's a drunk while the other gets lifted
This one's a punk you don't believe me just listen
'Cause I'm mischievous and I got the sickest word play
Like Sid vicious and the pistols rocked the U.K.
Cause I'm a vandal off the handle that's what you say
Give me a beat and I will gladly pay you Tuesday
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
And if you want to say something to the audio professionals
Then speak into the microphone it's right above my testicles
Got you haggered M-C's runnin' hiding under vestibules
Rhymes like everybody man they kinda like bisexuals
Pops is a carpenter mom's is an arm twister
Blah blah blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah mister
Move it along mister fuck it along mister
You can grab my dick don't give a shit and get a palm blister
I know you love the dirty heads always be blaring 'em
I'm doctoring your pussies like a veterinarian
You whinin' like a baby maybe need a cesarean
Man Dirty J is wasted boy you better take care of him
It's the hip hop misfits straight from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
It's the hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
I don't mind being knocked off ridiculed made to feel minuscule
When you consider the source it's kinda pitiful
When you consider the force it's kinda beautiful
When you consider the choice it's quite unusual
Took it from Slipknot and flipped it to hip hop
Walkin' the tight rope the way to the tip top
You think that your punk rock you're wearing a faux hawk
You're not your just teen pop you need to just stop
Because you're not a
Hip hop misfit yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfit yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
Hip hop misfits yes from the pacific
Yes we getting splifted
Yes we are the gifted
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Hip Hop Misfits Lyrics as written by Steve Fox Stan Frazier
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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love this song listening it everyday love dirty heads