"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.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh
I don't want to be a rap dude no more
Nigga
Yo, come back with that gangsta shit pa you're fraudulent
G's bang it out homeboy fuck the argument
Still on top of my game holding the fork
But the situation got me impatient start blowing your torch
The fizzy move, the fizzy move
At fizzy
(Home)
Four O, no doubt
'Cus I am a BK villain
And this year I 'm passing out brass knuckle ass whooping
Ten years in this bitch, fuck it, Switch speeds
I been spitting this venom since the age of sixteen
But you wanna be the Jordan of rap
An I' be catch you on the rebound slam dunk two in your back
You ain't shit, never was shit, never gone be shit
I'm the cold Medina DP shit, AH
(AH)
Authentic true blue believe it ill be back for the 2 o's 2
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady 'causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that what we came for
You see I' m faster than you, faster than anybody
Fast like a hottie doing a buck sixty on the Bacardi
You couldn't spare my rage F the Porsche-a
You know I squash ya'
Daddy yo I'm hotter than Chinese chilly sauce mixed with musavie
I'm sick in the head invisible fleds
I'm shooting the stars I'm blacking the whites to blues
That right, yeah, I'm sickening with the Kung Fu
More complex then Mixo Flicks or Weird Al Yankovic
Supposing a remix stick with some sick shit
Pistachio absolute Tanqueray mix with tequila
I'm instillina a willina and killing ya'
(Killing ya')
Mother sucking fire breathing Godzilla
Ayo this party right here is straight fire
(FIYAHH)
Life Force, M.O.P we take it higher
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady causing damage
Now what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that what we came for
Let's pop it off
(Yes, sir, who that is?)
William Danze one of the illest ever
That spit sparks with from both hands
I learn these criminal ways
Were criminals blaze at everything above your waistline
You take mine, you ain't that bad, you must be mad
You fucking faggot got mixed up with another dude
May peace and blessings be upon you
How you doing brother? Do, no
Look if I was in a position of giving us faith
(Listen)
Osama Bin Laden would have been shot in his face
(Missing)
Like every life he destroy in the World Trade
I ain't got no patients for the faggot less great
Couldn't wait to hit the wake with an O.G staff
Trained to shake'em, take'em and break'em in half
Using heavy caliber weapons for clearing the path
The same as we do in the ave nigga, look
(Look)
Is the legendary M.O.Piggidy back
Murdering tracks with Afu-Rigidy black
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that's what we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking, nigga
I don't want to be a rap dude no more
Nigga
Yo, come back with that gangsta shit pa you're fraudulent
G's bang it out homeboy fuck the argument
Still on top of my game holding the fork
But the situation got me impatient start blowing your torch
The fizzy move, the fizzy move
At fizzy
(Home)
Four O, no doubt
'Cus I am a BK villain
And this year I 'm passing out brass knuckle ass whooping
Ten years in this bitch, fuck it, Switch speeds
I been spitting this venom since the age of sixteen
But you wanna be the Jordan of rap
An I' be catch you on the rebound slam dunk two in your back
You ain't shit, never was shit, never gone be shit
I'm the cold Medina DP shit, AH
(AH)
Authentic true blue believe it ill be back for the 2 o's 2
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady 'causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that what we came for
You see I' m faster than you, faster than anybody
Fast like a hottie doing a buck sixty on the Bacardi
You couldn't spare my rage F the Porsche-a
You know I squash ya'
Daddy yo I'm hotter than Chinese chilly sauce mixed with musavie
I'm sick in the head invisible fleds
I'm shooting the stars I'm blacking the whites to blues
That right, yeah, I'm sickening with the Kung Fu
More complex then Mixo Flicks or Weird Al Yankovic
Supposing a remix stick with some sick shit
Pistachio absolute Tanqueray mix with tequila
I'm instillina a willina and killing ya'
(Killing ya')
Mother sucking fire breathing Godzilla
Ayo this party right here is straight fire
(FIYAHH)
Life Force, M.O.P we take it higher
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady causing damage
Now what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that what we came for
Let's pop it off
(Yes, sir, who that is?)
William Danze one of the illest ever
That spit sparks with from both hands
I learn these criminal ways
Were criminals blaze at everything above your waistline
You take mine, you ain't that bad, you must be mad
You fucking faggot got mixed up with another dude
May peace and blessings be upon you
How you doing brother? Do, no
Look if I was in a position of giving us faith
(Listen)
Osama Bin Laden would have been shot in his face
(Missing)
Like every life he destroy in the World Trade
I ain't got no patients for the faggot less great
Couldn't wait to hit the wake with an O.G staff
Trained to shake'em, take'em and break'em in half
Using heavy caliber weapons for clearing the path
The same as we do in the ave nigga, look
(Look)
Is the legendary M.O.Piggidy back
Murdering tracks with Afu-Rigidy black
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, what you rock for?
We in the making you move like is a dead zone
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We hit you off for the brain that's what we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking
Now, who do you rock for?
We in the making you moves that's why came for
Steady causing damage
Now, what you stop for?
We stimulating the brain that's why we came for
Bone crushing, bone breaking, nigga
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Page
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