"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.
Yea.
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Fool
Spitta' get this whole shit jumpin' like
Kangaroo pouch Louis Vuitton
The small things keep me different from these fools
Pull my draw strings
Keep my sweats off of my shoes
I'm a dog mang keep my paws clean
I ain't fuckin' with you at all
Lames is your whole set
Please don't recognize y'all
Independent acrobatic
Make that loo somersault
Rememberin' my license
And restrictions in my moms car
Came a long way
But I don't got time to be
Sittin' at the dock of the bay
Wastin' every second
Money can be made out a rhyme
I can do it on the dime
Kick the shit out the beat until it die
Call C.S.I.
I got um runnin' scared tryna catch up
57 heinz Gregory the dance legend
Make music I'm steppin' out
At a major event
Best dressed in attendance
And I never left the house
Right back at it
Like the Pilot get the pot
We can get it crackin' in here
Audio Dope
We track traffickin'
And they askin' for mo is you back again?
And I ain't talking bout practice no mo.
When it's game time show me to the stove
Audio dope
Yea nigga we track traffickin'
They askin' for mo is you back again?
Greens rolled under the gazzibo
Lemonade level vodka
Badgamon playin' Keno
Musical Mafia
Loaded bases bring my Team home I'm the great bambino
Roulette wheels in the casino
Fat max scammin' off the top
But that's the game we in
What you gone do about it huh?
Sacrifice and hit the independent prolly not?
They not like me.
That's why they don't like me
Me I'm like Lee
In my trilla in between
Scenes got the feature girl from the video full of weed
Break your foot tryna kick it like I kick it
Kill yourself tryna live how I'm livin'
Spitta'
Right back at it
Like the Pilot get the pot
We can get it crackin' in here
Audio Dope
We track traffickin'
And they askin' for mo is you back again?
And I ain't talking bout practice no mo.
When it's game time show me to the stove
Audio dope
Yea nigga we track traffickin'
They askin' for mo is you back again?
(All around the world the same song
Cali buzz strong it's that love phase gone
So high tell my neighbors thought I moved out
Because your boy stays gone
Now tell me that I ain't got it
And then keep a straight face punk!)
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Uh
Fool
Spitta' get this whole shit jumpin' like
Kangaroo pouch Louis Vuitton
The small things keep me different from these fools
Pull my draw strings
Keep my sweats off of my shoes
I'm a dog mang keep my paws clean
I ain't fuckin' with you at all
Lames is your whole set
Please don't recognize y'all
Independent acrobatic
Make that loo somersault
Rememberin' my license
And restrictions in my moms car
Came a long way
But I don't got time to be
Sittin' at the dock of the bay
Wastin' every second
Money can be made out a rhyme
I can do it on the dime
Kick the shit out the beat until it die
Call C.S.I.
I got um runnin' scared tryna catch up
57 heinz Gregory the dance legend
Make music I'm steppin' out
At a major event
Best dressed in attendance
And I never left the house
Right back at it
Like the Pilot get the pot
We can get it crackin' in here
Audio Dope
We track traffickin'
And they askin' for mo is you back again?
And I ain't talking bout practice no mo.
When it's game time show me to the stove
Audio dope
Yea nigga we track traffickin'
They askin' for mo is you back again?
Greens rolled under the gazzibo
Lemonade level vodka
Badgamon playin' Keno
Musical Mafia
Loaded bases bring my Team home I'm the great bambino
Roulette wheels in the casino
Fat max scammin' off the top
But that's the game we in
What you gone do about it huh?
Sacrifice and hit the independent prolly not?
They not like me.
That's why they don't like me
Me I'm like Lee
In my trilla in between
Scenes got the feature girl from the video full of weed
Break your foot tryna kick it like I kick it
Kill yourself tryna live how I'm livin'
Spitta'
Right back at it
Like the Pilot get the pot
We can get it crackin' in here
Audio Dope
We track traffickin'
And they askin' for mo is you back again?
And I ain't talking bout practice no mo.
When it's game time show me to the stove
Audio dope
Yea nigga we track traffickin'
They askin' for mo is you back again?
(All around the world the same song
Cali buzz strong it's that love phase gone
So high tell my neighbors thought I moved out
Because your boy stays gone
Now tell me that I ain't got it
And then keep a straight face punk!)
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