"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.
(Here are the thrill seekers)
The loose mic with two stripes, keeps moving
Like turnpikes, nothing average like the mastered assassin
We bring it with too much passion
A new chapter, first page
Book of life, and got y'all shit to write
Looking for your first aid, got burned by the sight
The master commanding
That's be us, bringing hot, have we got an understanding?
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
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Give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
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Official chemical, visual missiles
Dead the subscription, I'll sift through the issues
Rip your skin tissue so fast that the wind whistle
You think your man miss you? They really searching for a gem crystal
So dark that to most, they invisible
Just sort of close to your physical
And later cut, too, just like vitamin and minerals
Follow the SBL ritual, hip-hoply committed tunes
Spread love on side, the wife slid, too
Don't let the industry condition you, rock your own shit
So nowadays so many heads is trying to clone this
They lack the genetic components
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
The loose mic with two stripes, keeps moving
Like turnpikes, nothing average like the mastered assassin
We bring it with too much passion
A new chapter, first page
Book of life, and got y'all shit to write
Looking for your first aid, got burned by the sight
The master commanding
That's be us, bringing hot, have we got an understanding?
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
Give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
Dead the subscription, I'll sift through the issues
Rip your skin tissue so fast that the wind whistle
You think your man miss you? They really searching for a gem crystal
So dark that to most, they invisible
Just sort of close to your physical
And later cut, too, just like vitamin and minerals
Follow the SBL ritual, hip-hoply committed tunes
Spread love on side, the wife slid, too
Don't let the industry condition you, rock your own shit
So nowadays so many heads is trying to clone this
They lack the genetic components
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light and Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Sight Beyond Light, Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
We give you what you want, we give you what you like
Dub Pistols
Official chemical, visual missiles
Official chemical, visual missiles
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