"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.
Quick before the hyena come..
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Nants ingonyama bagithi babaÂ
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Happiala Hakuna Matata
Timon: Hakuna Matata
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Happiala Hakuna Matata
Timon: Hakuna Matata
Quick befefore the hye-hye-hyena come
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come...
Diggah Tunnah is what we do
Life's a tunnah we dig it through
Diggah Tunnah is what we sing
Diggah Tunnah is eveything
Mud & clay it's a meerkats friend
Always more around every bend
And when you get to your tunnahs end
Hallelujah - let's dig again!
Dig!
(Instrumental break)
Dig!
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
(Try clapping with both hands)
Rafiki:Â Happy Hakuna Matata
Timon: Hakuna Matata
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Rafiki: Happy Hakuna Matata
Timon: Hakuna Matata
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
(Mixed Chanting)
Diggah Tunnah is what we do.
Diggah Tunnah is what we sing.
Mud & clay it's a meerkat's friend.
And when you get to your tunnah's end..
Halleluja - let's dig again!
Dig!
Digga digga digga digga (Tunnah!)
Digga digga digga digga (a little faster!)
Digga digga digga digga (What was that?!)
Nants ingonyama bagithi babaÂ
Timon: All we do is dig, so we can hide-hide so we can dig-dig!
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Shenzi marie fetatora belle-jeda jackelina hyena
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Keepa digga never get done-a
Diggah Tunnah. Dig digga tunnah
Quick before the hyena come
Pumbaa: It's over all ready?
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Digga Tunnah Dance Lyrics as written by Hans Zimmer Johnny Clegg
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