"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.
Jordan 11 the legend blues
Elite with the pen treat the game like a stepping stool
I don't know too much bout what's going on but jnel the kids he ahead of you
I can't talk on the phone cause it's federal
Started a business know Jnel the general
Gucci you know it's your business I'm spending my time in the Stu but I'm prepping you
You ain't my slime then good riddance
No I ain't helping you
I hope that you hear what I'm telling you
If you ain't one of the honored ones most I can do is wish well for you
This is the regular degular joint
Eyes closed in the Stu but I'm staying on point
Three different rackets im counting the coin
Four spots in the group no you can not join
Make me a hook bout what? I'm really living my life
I gotta spit it no way I could lie
You know that I'm with it no way I could die
When you in a fight throw a left and a right
Stay wit a weapon I crept on their side
I got a level to rise and you know im ahead of them guys
I'm sicker than everything
Can't wait till we move onto better things
Gucci and reem want some wedding rings
But Jnel the kidd isn't settling
Need me four, five girls Hugh Hefner
Why would I cuff or keep me a heffer
You ain't making just taking the cheddar
Backed out my coat I can't play with the weather
You can't stay on the team with no neck up
I'm feeling sick need a check up
And they knowing we next up
Kick down the door I don't care if they let us
And it's just the beginning genesis
At the eye of the storm like a Pegasus
I can't lie on a track when you mention it
And I'm spinning his bend like a Tennyson
Make me a hook bout what? I'm really living my life
I gotta spit it no way I could lie
You know that I'm with it no way I could die
When you in a fight throw a left and a right
Stay wit a weapon I crept on their side
I got a level to rise and you know im ahead of them guys
Elite with the pen treat the game like a stepping stool
I don't know too much bout what's going on but jnel the kids he ahead of you
I can't talk on the phone cause it's federal
Started a business know Jnel the general
Gucci you know it's your business I'm spending my time in the Stu but I'm prepping you
You ain't my slime then good riddance
No I ain't helping you
I hope that you hear what I'm telling you
If you ain't one of the honored ones most I can do is wish well for you
This is the regular degular joint
Eyes closed in the Stu but I'm staying on point
Three different rackets im counting the coin
Four spots in the group no you can not join
Make me a hook bout what? I'm really living my life
I gotta spit it no way I could lie
You know that I'm with it no way I could die
When you in a fight throw a left and a right
Stay wit a weapon I crept on their side
I got a level to rise and you know im ahead of them guys
I'm sicker than everything
Can't wait till we move onto better things
Gucci and reem want some wedding rings
But Jnel the kidd isn't settling
Need me four, five girls Hugh Hefner
Why would I cuff or keep me a heffer
You ain't making just taking the cheddar
Backed out my coat I can't play with the weather
You can't stay on the team with no neck up
I'm feeling sick need a check up
And they knowing we next up
Kick down the door I don't care if they let us
And it's just the beginning genesis
At the eye of the storm like a Pegasus
I can't lie on a track when you mention it
And I'm spinning his bend like a Tennyson
Make me a hook bout what? I'm really living my life
I gotta spit it no way I could lie
You know that I'm with it no way I could die
When you in a fight throw a left and a right
Stay wit a weapon I crept on their side
I got a level to rise and you know im ahead of them guys
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Life I Live Lyrics as written by Justin Nelson
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