"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.
Best friends since elementary
So how could all this be?
Throw me in the penitentiary before there's tragedy
I never saw it coming, hit me at full-speed
And severed all of my trust and bruised me internally
Girl, get out, make it fast
Hit the road, here's some cash
Say you want to be a star
Live the life, fancy cars
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
Use up my toilet paper
Eat all my Applejacks
You so-call borrow my clothes
I never get them back
I don't quite understand
How you can sit in my house on your ass
Got ends to get your hair done
But can't buy your own grass
Oh, girl
What ya need's to find a job
Helped you out, it's gone too far
Girl, you're crowdin' my space
What ya need's to find a place
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
I come home from work early only for me to find
My best friend sitting on top of something I call mine
Thought my eyes were playin' tricks on me
But how could all this be?
But to my surprise it was no dream
It's my reality
Trick get out, give back the car
You've taken this, slightly far
Had your hands in my life
'Til I saw that you was trife
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
I feel so ignorant, he had me on birth control
We stopped using protection a long, long time ago
Then I witnessed him sexin' my best friend, a.K.a Dirty Ho
In the morning I'll be at the doctor's office
I'm curious to know how long this has been goin' on, oh
Nigga, get out, the tank is full
No second chance, you broke the rules
Better not come around no more
You've proved your point, you're such a whore
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
Somehow, somewhere
I let my feelings go too far and in my way
Somehow (somehow), somewhere (somewhere)
I let my feelings go too far get out my way
Somehow, somewhere
So how could all this be?
Throw me in the penitentiary before there's tragedy
I never saw it coming, hit me at full-speed
And severed all of my trust and bruised me internally
Girl, get out, make it fast
Hit the road, here's some cash
Say you want to be a star
Live the life, fancy cars
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
Use up my toilet paper
Eat all my Applejacks
You so-call borrow my clothes
I never get them back
I don't quite understand
How you can sit in my house on your ass
Got ends to get your hair done
But can't buy your own grass
Oh, girl
What ya need's to find a job
Helped you out, it's gone too far
Girl, you're crowdin' my space
What ya need's to find a place
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
I come home from work early only for me to find
My best friend sitting on top of something I call mine
Thought my eyes were playin' tricks on me
But how could all this be?
But to my surprise it was no dream
It's my reality
Trick get out, give back the car
You've taken this, slightly far
Had your hands in my life
'Til I saw that you was trife
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
I feel so ignorant, he had me on birth control
We stopped using protection a long, long time ago
Then I witnessed him sexin' my best friend, a.K.a Dirty Ho
In the morning I'll be at the doctor's office
I'm curious to know how long this has been goin' on, oh
Nigga, get out, the tank is full
No second chance, you broke the rules
Better not come around no more
You've proved your point, you're such a whore
Feelings change, people change
Things never stay the same
Somehow, somewhere
I let my feelings go too far and in my way
Somehow (somehow), somewhere (somewhere)
I let my feelings go too far get out my way
Somehow, somewhere
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