"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.
The session is nice, feel real good
The set is playing some wicked riddim
I see some girls wining on their head tops
I see some girls wining on their head tops
Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
'Cause they know who is running it
Send for the suru board
Lala give it to me on the dance floor
Cedella just fly in from New York
She deh pon the scene
Girls from Backtu. Girls from Spain
Girls from Trenchtown, Girls from Payne
Girls from South and Matches Lane
When the music hit you feel no pain
A park outside, some youth dem come to greet me
A got to shine some light
To make the youth dem walk more freely
Talk on the mic, a sing a song them call stop joke
And then a rope in Steve fi come D.J. rat trap for me
[Chorus]
Wining on their head tops, wining on their head tops
Is a African ting
Wining on their head tops, wining on their head tops
Is a African ting
Girls from New York, girls from L.A.
Girls from Accra, girls from J.A.
Girls from Japan, girls from Chile
The music hit you feel irie
Solo
Brazil, Japan, New York, London
Farout, Jamdown, Falmouth, St. Ann
You have girls that come around
No tek man fi clown
Love the ragsta, only him alone
Jamming on the riddim mek ina you back bone
Watch it baby love, you enter ina my zone
Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
Dem done know who is running it
Send for the suru board, Lala give to me on the dance floor
Cedella just fly in from New York
She deh pon the scene
[Chorus]
Girls from uptown, and girls from downtown
Girls from Spanishtown
Girls from Hanna Town, girls from Rema
Girls from Jungle, Girls from Scheme
Girls that love the Zigman, only him alone, only him alone
You winning in the session and you haffi boogie down
No si down ina corner and gwan like a clown
Haffi boogie down, girls from town
Must boogie down, girls from all around
Girls from north, south, east and then to the west
Ina the place modeling off dem best
Some ina tights and some ina dress
Girls on them head tops, body contest, body contest
Love the Zigman, girl do your best, body contest
Love the ruggedy, ruggedy the best
The set is playing some wicked riddim
I see some girls wining on their head tops
I see some girls wining on their head tops
Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
'Cause they know who is running it
Send for the suru board
Lala give it to me on the dance floor
Cedella just fly in from New York
She deh pon the scene
Girls from Backtu. Girls from Spain
Girls from Trenchtown, Girls from Payne
Girls from South and Matches Lane
When the music hit you feel no pain
A park outside, some youth dem come to greet me
A got to shine some light
To make the youth dem walk more freely
Talk on the mic, a sing a song them call stop joke
And then a rope in Steve fi come D.J. rat trap for me
[Chorus]
Wining on their head tops, wining on their head tops
Is a African ting
Wining on their head tops, wining on their head tops
Is a African ting
Girls from New York, girls from L.A.
Girls from Accra, girls from J.A.
Girls from Japan, girls from Chile
The music hit you feel irie
Solo
Brazil, Japan, New York, London
Farout, Jamdown, Falmouth, St. Ann
You have girls that come around
No tek man fi clown
Love the ragsta, only him alone
Jamming on the riddim mek ina you back bone
Watch it baby love, you enter ina my zone
Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
Dem done know who is running it
Send for the suru board, Lala give to me on the dance floor
Cedella just fly in from New York
She deh pon the scene
[Chorus]
Girls from uptown, and girls from downtown
Girls from Spanishtown
Girls from Hanna Town, girls from Rema
Girls from Jungle, Girls from Scheme
Girls that love the Zigman, only him alone, only him alone
You winning in the session and you haffi boogie down
No si down ina corner and gwan like a clown
Haffi boogie down, girls from town
Must boogie down, girls from all around
Girls from north, south, east and then to the west
Ina the place modeling off dem best
Some ina tights and some ina dress
Girls on them head tops, body contest, body contest
Love the Zigman, girl do your best, body contest
Love the ruggedy, ruggedy the best
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Head Top Lyrics as written by Stephen Marley David Marley
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