"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.
Who am I? An Aussie battler, man that manufactures
Plans to fracture, can't handle or stand my stature
My raps saturate, every batch I make is packed with hate
An act of fate, once I'm round the corner I've been trapped in rain
Scrap the page now, I've got to start from scratch again
The whack catch a break, I'm sick of sayin' congrats to them
I lax it in, catch a pen, gettin' straight to work
Take the first steps, redirect the hex and break the curse
Shake the nerves, makin' words, I bear it all for this
Can't call it quits, standin' way too tall to miss
Paul is this, who am I? A phantom watchin' down
Struck a random till I'm handed all these knuckled frowns
Stop these clowns claimin' king, bring you back to planet Earth
I stand firm from the day this man merged from Perth
A learnin' curve from the birth of this
Try to take me down but swerve and miss, motherfucker
Who am I? A slave to the beat and its rhythm
Who am I? I'm ashamed of this world that we live in
Who am I? I'm a threat, I'm the voice in your head
The one telling you to jump off the ledge motherfucker
Who am I? I'm the man from the land down under
Who am I? I'm the rain, I'm the sun, I'm the thunder
Who am I? I'm the hope that elopes through your speaker
Runnin' as the wolf pack leader motherfucker, who am I?
I'm carin' about one fan base in sunburnt landscape
Plan A is summed up with one word, rampage
Man-made disaster, no bandaid or plaster
Is big enough to cover up this blood, sweat, I'd rather
The heartfelt saga, targets an audience, my marker
B-Boys or girls that are as horny as Drapht
But I'm warnin' that I'm born in this to shout out
Be burnin' them then I'm servin' the corniest on the platter
My anatomy's had a beating, I'm feeding off heads
Like Hannibal but never leavin' em dead, plant my CD/see-d instead
Believe in the right season it will grow
For now I'm happy standin' back and letting nobody know
Who I am, remaining to stand as the ghost in the backdrop
Won't ever abandon my pose for a snapshot
Or hope for the jackpot to carry me
I'd rather crack the luckier mentality man so..
Who am I? A slave to the beat and its rhythm
Who am I? I'm ashamed of this world that we live in
Who am I? I'm a threat, I'm the voice in your head
The one telling you to jump off the ledge motherfucker
Who am I? I'm the man from the land down under
Who am I? I'm the rain, I'm the sun, I'm the thunder
Who am I? I'm the hope that elopes through your speaker
Runnin' as the wolf pack leader motherfucker, who am I?
What makes your tick, climb makes me sick to the stomach
Amateur dicks pull out cause they know that DR's coming
Its certified, no spermicide can stop me
Fertilisin' a lot while only a third of the eyes watch me
Measure dicing monopoly, building another level
Diversifying it properly, rule and run with the rebels
I never settle for second
We be goin' off quicker than the metal detection in Al Qaeda's mosque
You lost in translation, costing you to listen
To what this man's facin', offer you the vision
Just once and it will never be repeated again
I stay conceited from the greed and all the trends motherfucker
Who am I? Paul Ridge to the death
Who am I? D-rapht to the death
Who am I? SBX to the death
And I'm gonna represent till there's nothin' of me left
Who am I? AM crew to the death
Who am I? War crew to the death
Who am I? WA to the death
And I'm gonna represent till there's nothin' of me left
Plans to fracture, can't handle or stand my stature
My raps saturate, every batch I make is packed with hate
An act of fate, once I'm round the corner I've been trapped in rain
Scrap the page now, I've got to start from scratch again
The whack catch a break, I'm sick of sayin' congrats to them
I lax it in, catch a pen, gettin' straight to work
Take the first steps, redirect the hex and break the curse
Shake the nerves, makin' words, I bear it all for this
Can't call it quits, standin' way too tall to miss
Paul is this, who am I? A phantom watchin' down
Struck a random till I'm handed all these knuckled frowns
Stop these clowns claimin' king, bring you back to planet Earth
I stand firm from the day this man merged from Perth
A learnin' curve from the birth of this
Try to take me down but swerve and miss, motherfucker
Who am I? A slave to the beat and its rhythm
Who am I? I'm ashamed of this world that we live in
Who am I? I'm a threat, I'm the voice in your head
The one telling you to jump off the ledge motherfucker
Who am I? I'm the man from the land down under
Who am I? I'm the rain, I'm the sun, I'm the thunder
Who am I? I'm the hope that elopes through your speaker
Runnin' as the wolf pack leader motherfucker, who am I?
I'm carin' about one fan base in sunburnt landscape
Plan A is summed up with one word, rampage
Man-made disaster, no bandaid or plaster
Is big enough to cover up this blood, sweat, I'd rather
The heartfelt saga, targets an audience, my marker
B-Boys or girls that are as horny as Drapht
But I'm warnin' that I'm born in this to shout out
Be burnin' them then I'm servin' the corniest on the platter
My anatomy's had a beating, I'm feeding off heads
Like Hannibal but never leavin' em dead, plant my CD/see-d instead
Believe in the right season it will grow
For now I'm happy standin' back and letting nobody know
Who I am, remaining to stand as the ghost in the backdrop
Won't ever abandon my pose for a snapshot
Or hope for the jackpot to carry me
I'd rather crack the luckier mentality man so..
Who am I? A slave to the beat and its rhythm
Who am I? I'm ashamed of this world that we live in
Who am I? I'm a threat, I'm the voice in your head
The one telling you to jump off the ledge motherfucker
Who am I? I'm the man from the land down under
Who am I? I'm the rain, I'm the sun, I'm the thunder
Who am I? I'm the hope that elopes through your speaker
Runnin' as the wolf pack leader motherfucker, who am I?
What makes your tick, climb makes me sick to the stomach
Amateur dicks pull out cause they know that DR's coming
Its certified, no spermicide can stop me
Fertilisin' a lot while only a third of the eyes watch me
Measure dicing monopoly, building another level
Diversifying it properly, rule and run with the rebels
I never settle for second
We be goin' off quicker than the metal detection in Al Qaeda's mosque
You lost in translation, costing you to listen
To what this man's facin', offer you the vision
Just once and it will never be repeated again
I stay conceited from the greed and all the trends motherfucker
Who am I? Paul Ridge to the death
Who am I? D-rapht to the death
Who am I? SBX to the death
And I'm gonna represent till there's nothin' of me left
Who am I? AM crew to the death
Who am I? War crew to the death
Who am I? WA to the death
And I'm gonna represent till there's nothin' of me left
Lyrics submitted by drapht
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