"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.
( police talking )
attention all units in the downtown area
suspect wanted for a possible 187
last seen at the corner India (?)
suspect wearing all blue
considered to be dangerous I repeat all dangerous
[Knightowl]
you blast on me but didn't string me
you mad at joules, cause you want to be
fucking just like me, but that is impossible
you know I'm unstoppable, I rain supreme
and I got a wicked fucking team
surround of thugs, down busted slut
go head and pick the phone, I crack you fucking dome
Shot you fucking hand, and watch you fucking dance
Without fucking feet, I'm from the fucking street
Is that you life I'm take but first blow
Fools I braking , why you nervous shaking
Is the you waking up, I'm wicked just like sicko
Fucking bitches hating, you want to disrespect
The sick, sick go and suck a dick, real motherfuckers
Don't sleep they only creep, I'm the real pistol creep
Nothing but the hollo, test the bring ass sorrow
I take you never borrowed, you never see tomorrow
(Chores)
fuck the cops they can't get me
fuck you motherfucks
they can get the middle finger
yo gonna get none, takes this motherfuckers
pow pow pow
Knightowl fuck this is wop town
I meat your pork,
Fools in the dark, they be the fools
that I meet in the park, walking ring behind you
glad the day they find you , run but you can't hide
as you turn to you fucking die
come a face the music, death if you refuse
you might don't want go , but they who want to go
you about to feel the pain, I got a casket with your name
Baldhead of fools, oped in the circle looking mad
talking about who did it, but they all know i did it
but I don't give a fuck, bring them all
you be the next to catch fucking slut
all my boys be thugs, surround be the label
not bitches on my stable, you want to drop some shit
but those some putos , you not able
cause only the real hand with me and my homeboy
we got he fuckins toys, they like to brigs the noise
they like to make you bleeding
talking shit your receive, some latter on you dome
and you kne fucking bran kne home.
(Chores )
Police talking pow pow
we are now persude a lexus, be W.
with the laenere place K.O.W.L
surround records. In the back of the window
it possible be influences shooting at the victims.1, 7.8powwwwwwwwwww
[Knightowl]
you can't forget about me, I'm stuck in your fucking thoughts
connect to the bullets to your brain
like fucked does, I'm indestructive, is not comporable
and you be colevo I'm intractable
the bitches said a loves , huggable suckable
ring bitches like pork, with a lot of pork
hangin all around the city, so many joints
they wanted do the things that I do
but they do be so rusty, so many bitches that I fucked
but I be trusty, they want to come around the homies
at he WOP town gangbangin, bitches hitting like switches
everybody is looking at the one, on the prima
but she si getting foggy, got slut getting nutting
in the back sit , fucking bumping musin bumping
every body get turn on, because we ll fucking bumping
[Knightowl]
(talking)
down there is fucking note pad on my head
now what he fuck I mine gonna do
fucked it time to shot, pigs dies tonight
they fucked with the wrong man
WOP TOWNBABY all up in this motherfucker,
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