"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.
Verse 1
{Wise Intelligent}
Some of dem Cave dwellers,
bomb mailers, and gun sellers,
the lie tellers cinderellas, and Goodfellas.
The gun packers crack backers and loot stackers
? crackers new world order ?? actors.
The globe holders, the population controllers,
disease makers a.k.a. AIDS creators
The cremators , doctors, nurses and nigga haters.
That's out to get us, after making us bullshitters
The sister hitters who knock um and don't stay wit em.
The human litter that whiteys about to get rid of.
The same niggas supplanted the very planet
with mathematics pure knowledge and understanding.
Global famine pursuit of the hidden manner star spangled banner
Slave traders and kidnappers.
We ain't just rappers
We changing some blacks situation
teaching this Nation the way to conquer damnation.
My occupation, to stimulate your elevation,
to motivate and navigate the revelation.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but damn I'm good! (2x)
Verse 2
{Wise Intelligent}
Well life is what you make it holler to the almighty
frighty Whitey never will learn to like me.
My state of being as the all eye seeing,seeing human beings
on the brink of extinct.
Mind vocalize though only prove to incline
one time in time I turn the water to wine.
Combine X and why created physical Gods
no lie because I heard that if I did I would die?
????????????full of ????? politricks and 10%ers
who know the truth but hold it back from the youth.
There's proof that Jesus Christ was a so called spook.
Revelations Chapter One 13 and 16 "wool hair" "bronze skin"
Jesus was blacker than me.
I'll prove and I claim that the truth has been changed
for the lies and the white supremacy to remain.
That chain on your brain makes it hard to maintain.
Colin Ferguson burst on them, hollow points spurtin' dem.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x)
Verse 3
{Wise Intelligent}
Perfection!
forever living giving tongues to the dumb G is for God.
Where the gangsta come from?
Wisdom words in action making knowledge for real.
Witness the days when brothers have to kill or be killed.
Gods will will be done the kingdom will come
the Gods seed keep perfecting the Sun.
The Wise one ain't done.
Six sextillion tons Earth
I levitate hold the universe and press weight.
I hear debate come look God in the face.
Place your empty thoughts with the limited waste.
Erase your earthly ass at the speed
1-1-2-0 per second but still you act slow.
There go some negro
confiscatin' my flow. Ditto.
This information take it home and make a plus lesson.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights......
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x)
{Wise Intelligent}
Some of dem Cave dwellers,
bomb mailers, and gun sellers,
the lie tellers cinderellas, and Goodfellas.
The gun packers crack backers and loot stackers
? crackers new world order ?? actors.
The globe holders, the population controllers,
disease makers a.k.a. AIDS creators
The cremators , doctors, nurses and nigga haters.
That's out to get us, after making us bullshitters
The sister hitters who knock um and don't stay wit em.
The human litter that whiteys about to get rid of.
The same niggas supplanted the very planet
with mathematics pure knowledge and understanding.
Global famine pursuit of the hidden manner star spangled banner
Slave traders and kidnappers.
We ain't just rappers
We changing some blacks situation
teaching this Nation the way to conquer damnation.
My occupation, to stimulate your elevation,
to motivate and navigate the revelation.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but damn I'm good! (2x)
Verse 2
{Wise Intelligent}
Well life is what you make it holler to the almighty
frighty Whitey never will learn to like me.
My state of being as the all eye seeing,seeing human beings
on the brink of extinct.
Mind vocalize though only prove to incline
one time in time I turn the water to wine.
Combine X and why created physical Gods
no lie because I heard that if I did I would die?
????????????full of ????? politricks and 10%ers
who know the truth but hold it back from the youth.
There's proof that Jesus Christ was a so called spook.
Revelations Chapter One 13 and 16 "wool hair" "bronze skin"
Jesus was blacker than me.
I'll prove and I claim that the truth has been changed
for the lies and the white supremacy to remain.
That chain on your brain makes it hard to maintain.
Colin Ferguson burst on them, hollow points spurtin' dem.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x)
Verse 3
{Wise Intelligent}
Perfection!
forever living giving tongues to the dumb G is for God.
Where the gangsta come from?
Wisdom words in action making knowledge for real.
Witness the days when brothers have to kill or be killed.
Gods will will be done the kingdom will come
the Gods seed keep perfecting the Sun.
The Wise one ain't done.
Six sextillion tons Earth
I levitate hold the universe and press weight.
I hear debate come look God in the face.
Place your empty thoughts with the limited waste.
Erase your earthly ass at the speed
1-1-2-0 per second but still you act slow.
There go some negro
confiscatin' my flow. Ditto.
This information take it home and make a plus lesson.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.
Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights......
We dat nice. (2x)
{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x)
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We Dat Nice Lyrics as written by Kejuan Waliek Muchita Albert Johnson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Exploration Group LLC
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