"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.
Yeah, yeah, two-thousand, zero, zero
The party just started, ha-ha, ha-ha
Everlast, Kurupt, Fredwreck, Kurupt
Goes somethin' like this
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Sticker man tryin' to feed his baby
Drug dealer tryin' to raise his son
Every pimp gotta dress his lady
Come on now you ain't the only one
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Now this is the combination of intervention
That just might open up a new dimension
I can tell, the well, just might run dry
Loss some tension of thoughts, modify and simplify
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I said life, blast, present to the past
Hard rapper the war path
War path Kurupt young Gotti
Incredibly clever, mack auther with Everlast it's true
Do what you want to do, one, two
Mary Jane want to run smoke reefer
Little Ricky's out sniffin' rock
Cynthia, she's at the disco coked out
Doesn't matter what drugs you on
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Game, growth, life by oath
The gifted, different toast
Talent, the mellow dramatic
Violent life in silence but this here's mine
Crystal clear ?
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
The party just started, ha-ha, ha-ha
Everlast, Kurupt, Fredwreck, Kurupt
Goes somethin' like this
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Sticker man tryin' to feed his baby
Drug dealer tryin' to raise his son
Every pimp gotta dress his lady
Come on now you ain't the only one
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Now this is the combination of intervention
That just might open up a new dimension
I can tell, the well, just might run dry
Loss some tension of thoughts, modify and simplify
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I said life, blast, present to the past
Hard rapper the war path
War path Kurupt young Gotti
Incredibly clever, mack auther with Everlast it's true
Do what you want to do, one, two
Mary Jane want to run smoke reefer
Little Ricky's out sniffin' rock
Cynthia, she's at the disco coked out
Doesn't matter what drugs you on
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
It go one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
Game, growth, life by oath
The gifted, different toast
Talent, the mellow dramatic
Violent life in silence but this here's mine
Crystal clear ?
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two, one-two-one-two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
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