"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.
Hyper Crush Mixtape vol II
Fucking bitches at the back of the club
That's how we roll
Talking shit to the bouncer like WHAT
That's how we roll
Smacking haters with the back of my hand
That's how we roll
Put the DJ in a headlock and laugh
That's how we roll
Fontaine ain't backing down
You lames better ask around
Yeah I look like Zack Morris
And I got them Grant Morris
Glasses
Man, you categoric
Plastic
I'm a macasarus
Brick phone, you ain't major
Kid, going like two way pagers
Haters need to stop
Nobody wants to read your blog
Kareem Abdul Jabbar on my feet
Kobe Bryant on my jersey
I ain't got no Aston Martin, girl
But I got that Magic Johnson
But I got thatthat Magic Johnson
All these fellas buy me drinks on the spot
That's how we roll
All these bitches tryna to see if I'm hot
That's how we roll
Trying to talk to me, hope you like Mace
That's how we roll
It's Hyper Crush and we ain't fucking with lengths
Walking in like Christopher
Everyone look so I flipped the bird
Sure
Why not I like to fight
Tryna show you what life is like
Fontaine's an idiot
Always on beat like a city cop
Watch me tear it up
Every club in America
Is that your chick?
I probably boned her
No club, no isotoners
Party like my life's over
Never catch me nice and sober
Biters, eat my shorts
We got new shit you aint seen before
Lasers and fog
I'm like damn why you gotta jock the lights?
This is hyper crush right here
That's how we roll
Mixtape Volume II
We roll like this
Fucking bitches at the back of the club
That's how we roll
Talking shit to the bouncer like WHAT
That's how we roll
Smacking haters with the back of my hand
That's how we roll
Put the DJ in a headlock and laugh
That's how we roll
Fontaine ain't backing down
You lames better ask around
Yeah I look like Zack Morris
And I got them Grant Morris
Glasses
Man, you categoric
Plastic
I'm a macasarus
Brick phone, you ain't major
Kid, going like two way pagers
Haters need to stop
Nobody wants to read your blog
Kareem Abdul Jabbar on my feet
Kobe Bryant on my jersey
I ain't got no Aston Martin, girl
But I got that Magic Johnson
But I got thatthat Magic Johnson
All these fellas buy me drinks on the spot
That's how we roll
All these bitches tryna to see if I'm hot
That's how we roll
Trying to talk to me, hope you like Mace
That's how we roll
It's Hyper Crush and we ain't fucking with lengths
Walking in like Christopher
Everyone look so I flipped the bird
Sure
Why not I like to fight
Tryna show you what life is like
Fontaine's an idiot
Always on beat like a city cop
Watch me tear it up
Every club in America
Is that your chick?
I probably boned her
No club, no isotoners
Party like my life's over
Never catch me nice and sober
Biters, eat my shorts
We got new shit you aint seen before
Lasers and fog
I'm like damn why you gotta jock the lights?
This is hyper crush right here
That's how we roll
Mixtape Volume II
We roll like this
Lyrics submitted by xkitty4lifex
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