"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, ? father ? father
Any old day
I'm just walking through my neighbourhood
Can't get away (can't get away)
The game just chasing me down (chasing me down)
I don't think (I don't think)
I stand on the corner for hours if I have to
Got to get paid (got to get paid)
Got to find a way to spread it around (spread it around)
Listen
Aunt Louise bout to get her lights turned off
She need that
Cousin James on the grey goose hit it off
Believe that
I gotta hang kinda early tomorrow
'cause his poppa been paid off
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will every night
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until
My cornrows
Seem to be so damn offensive
You lock your doors (lock your doors)
Every time you stop at my lights
I hope you know
You really ain't the focus of my attention
So much more (so much more)
To be on a young black man's mind (young black man's mind)
Gotta face this
Sure I be a daddy soon
Somebody tell me
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I guess I spend an extra hour or two
'cause little man gotta get his dues
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until
Until
In the morning light
Hustling
Afternoon, now
Hustling
Day and night, now
Hustling
In the studio
Hustling
Dirty scandalous
Hustling
Los Angeles
Hustling
Don't knock my
Hustling
Don't stop my
Hustling
I need my
Hustling
I feed by
Hustling
Became a G by
Hustling
All day (all day)
I need my
Hustling
I feed by
Hustling
Became a G by
Hustling
All day
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until
Until
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights (oh yeah)
Until my folks eat right
Until, yes
Until
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until the day (until the day) I die (day I die)
I will live my life (gonna live my life)
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off (til the wheels fall off)
I will (oh) every night (every single night)
Be under streetlights (gonna be, gonna be)
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah
Until
Until the day, yeah, yeah, I die
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until
Until
Until
Any old day
I'm just walking through my neighbourhood
Can't get away (can't get away)
The game just chasing me down (chasing me down)
I don't think (I don't think)
I stand on the corner for hours if I have to
Got to get paid (got to get paid)
Got to find a way to spread it around (spread it around)
Listen
Aunt Louise bout to get her lights turned off
She need that
Cousin James on the grey goose hit it off
Believe that
I gotta hang kinda early tomorrow
'cause his poppa been paid off
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will every night
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until
My cornrows
Seem to be so damn offensive
You lock your doors (lock your doors)
Every time you stop at my lights
I hope you know
You really ain't the focus of my attention
So much more (so much more)
To be on a young black man's mind (young black man's mind)
Gotta face this
Sure I be a daddy soon
Somebody tell me
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I guess I spend an extra hour or two
'cause little man gotta get his dues
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until
Until
In the morning light
Hustling
Afternoon, now
Hustling
Day and night, now
Hustling
In the studio
Hustling
Dirty scandalous
Hustling
Los Angeles
Hustling
Don't knock my
Hustling
Don't stop my
Hustling
I need my
Hustling
I feed by
Hustling
Became a G by
Hustling
All day (all day)
I need my
Hustling
I feed by
Hustling
Became a G by
Hustling
All day
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until
Until
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights (oh yeah)
Until my folks eat right
Until, yes
Until
Until the day I die
I will live my life
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off
I will (I will) every night (every night)
Be under streetlights
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until the day (until the day) I die (day I die)
I will live my life (gonna live my life)
I'ma hustle, I'ma ball
Until the wheels fall off (til the wheels fall off)
I will (oh) every night (every single night)
Be under streetlights (gonna be, gonna be)
Until my folks eat right
Until, yeah
Until
Until the day, yeah, yeah, I die
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Until
Until
Until
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