"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.
[Jamie Madrox:]
We print then press, they copy
Like xerox machine stopping
Like mindless machines drop it
Put us down find unknown topic
You're wicked, you're so bloody
Don't stop there bleed all our money
You'll think they're all just dummies
I don't find it one bit funny
[Monoxide:]
Transcripts, hidden in advancement
Last kick check finding my Atlantis
Can mist give to something to back-whip
But I'm throwing something nobody could have imagined
Magnified by inner-joining ions
Who patronize my likeness and pray for my demise
I despise anyone who decides they live a life of fakeness
Imitating the greatest
[Chorus:]
They all are so far behind
You can't duplicate one of a kind
Follow our lead into the spiral (Ahead of our time) [x3]
[Blaze Ya Dead Homie:]
We in the pole position,
While you studying composition
The competition got me blueprints to see what's missing
Like a game of Simon Says but I never said Simon
Splash a little paint in their face and start rhyming
You're definition of them see, is most crafty
And lie up on my latest CD's so you can jack me
I'm not the hero, I'm the one you all hate
Re-sinned and recapture everything that you emulate
[Violent J:]
When I drop bombs, I'm kept away
My spit burns flesh like pepper spray
You're scalp and your skull will separate
The opaque brotherhood, five all time greats
Follow the leader, if you can fit in
Don't dabble with black magic, it ain't pretend
Put your Ouija away, you don't know what to do
There's a lot of evil on the other side walking through
[Chorus]
[Shaggy 2 Dope:]
Between us and them we lead, y'all following
'Cause you all know that y'all fake like psychology
Come again, poison I be swallowing,
And becoming immune because we're building up a tolerance
No apologies, we meant that shit
Dark lotus represent and protect the blueprint
So if you follow I'ma lead you astray
And hope you copy cats die every time the song plays
[Chorus]
We print then press, they copy
Like xerox machine stopping
Like mindless machines drop it
Put us down find unknown topic
You're wicked, you're so bloody
Don't stop there bleed all our money
You'll think they're all just dummies
I don't find it one bit funny
[Monoxide:]
Transcripts, hidden in advancement
Last kick check finding my Atlantis
Can mist give to something to back-whip
But I'm throwing something nobody could have imagined
Magnified by inner-joining ions
Who patronize my likeness and pray for my demise
I despise anyone who decides they live a life of fakeness
Imitating the greatest
[Chorus:]
They all are so far behind
You can't duplicate one of a kind
Follow our lead into the spiral (Ahead of our time) [x3]
[Blaze Ya Dead Homie:]
We in the pole position,
While you studying composition
The competition got me blueprints to see what's missing
Like a game of Simon Says but I never said Simon
Splash a little paint in their face and start rhyming
You're definition of them see, is most crafty
And lie up on my latest CD's so you can jack me
I'm not the hero, I'm the one you all hate
Re-sinned and recapture everything that you emulate
[Violent J:]
When I drop bombs, I'm kept away
My spit burns flesh like pepper spray
You're scalp and your skull will separate
The opaque brotherhood, five all time greats
Follow the leader, if you can fit in
Don't dabble with black magic, it ain't pretend
Put your Ouija away, you don't know what to do
There's a lot of evil on the other side walking through
[Chorus]
[Shaggy 2 Dope:]
Between us and them we lead, y'all following
'Cause you all know that y'all fake like psychology
Come again, poison I be swallowing,
And becoming immune because we're building up a tolerance
No apologies, we meant that shit
Dark lotus represent and protect the blueprint
So if you follow I'ma lead you astray
And hope you copy cats die every time the song plays
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by th1rt3en
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