"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
Yo yo yo yo yo
Holla
(Holla)
Last temptation
(Ooo ooo)
Comin' through now niggas
It's a problem
It's a problem
Always has been
(Ha ha ha)
Yo buck
Turn me up a lil' bit in my motherfuckin' headphones and shit
Come on and let these niggas know
(Let them know)
Motherfuckers you'll want war wit the God
(Come on)
Ya'll know betta
I put holes in ya leatha'
Reknit 'cha sweata'
And I bet the floors wetta'
Than ocean front property
Betta come at me properly
Niggas betta off poppin' me
(Niggas betta off poppin' me)
But I believe ya'll scared to clap from hammers
(But I believe)
And the fact that I'm unpredictable gives me the advantage
What the fuck am I speakin' Spanish niggas?
Have I gotta tell ya'll in detail how we murder niggas?
(Murder niggas)
Handin' your business
The inc is religious
Murder is the sacrifice
We throwin' em's niggas
That means murder for life
(Murder for life)
And I'm die fo that red and black
The house wit the cheddah stack
And the smiles on my kids faces
What to replace this
This little nigga here ta come with grips with death and taste it
My air's thick and filled with hatred
Surprised that they look in my eyes?
(Well don't be)
I'm just followin' the footsteps the Lord done paved me
(Hey hey hey)
If I go crazy it's the same
I'ma blame it on the world for what I became
(Hey hey hey)
'Cause they gave me all the fame and the money name
The million icon so the world can catch a nigga wit his lights on
(Hey hey hey)
That's the pros and cons
You never quite free
But just give me a little room so I can breathe
(Ooo ooo oo)
And my pain goin' be the death for me
But to be loved is my destiny
My black people
(Black people)
Yeah
We out
(Ooo ooo oo)
Holla
Oh
Oh
Oh
Yo yo yo yo yo
Holla
(Holla)
Last temptation
(Ooo ooo)
Comin' through now niggas
It's a problem
It's a problem
Always has been
(Ha ha ha)
Yo buck
Turn me up a lil' bit in my motherfuckin' headphones and shit
Come on and let these niggas know
(Let them know)
Motherfuckers you'll want war wit the God
(Come on)
Ya'll know betta
I put holes in ya leatha'
Reknit 'cha sweata'
And I bet the floors wetta'
Than ocean front property
Betta come at me properly
Niggas betta off poppin' me
(Niggas betta off poppin' me)
But I believe ya'll scared to clap from hammers
(But I believe)
And the fact that I'm unpredictable gives me the advantage
What the fuck am I speakin' Spanish niggas?
Have I gotta tell ya'll in detail how we murder niggas?
(Murder niggas)
Handin' your business
The inc is religious
Murder is the sacrifice
We throwin' em's niggas
That means murder for life
(Murder for life)
And I'm die fo that red and black
The house wit the cheddah stack
And the smiles on my kids faces
What to replace this
This little nigga here ta come with grips with death and taste it
My air's thick and filled with hatred
Surprised that they look in my eyes?
(Well don't be)
I'm just followin' the footsteps the Lord done paved me
(Hey hey hey)
If I go crazy it's the same
I'ma blame it on the world for what I became
(Hey hey hey)
'Cause they gave me all the fame and the money name
The million icon so the world can catch a nigga wit his lights on
(Hey hey hey)
That's the pros and cons
You never quite free
But just give me a little room so I can breathe
(Ooo ooo oo)
And my pain goin' be the death for me
But to be loved is my destiny
My black people
(Black people)
Yeah
We out
(Ooo ooo oo)
Holla
Oh
Oh
Oh
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Destiny Lyrics as written by Sol Marcus Bennie Benjamin
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