"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.
Hey son?
Hey dad
Son who's your favorite rapper and who's your favorite rap group?
You are 'cause you the real ice cream man and my favorite rap group is T.R.U.
'Cause I'm true 2 da game, aha
I'm true 2 da game too son. You did your homework?
You got any studying to do?
Yea dad. Studying this just how to be a true playa
Wanna ask me some questions?
Yea son. Let me see this
Oh they didn't have questions like this when I grew up son
But I guess whatever
It takes to make you be a man son. I'm all for it
Son, the first question is, if you rap about another
Rapper on a record, what are you?
You a sucka!
Aha, you got that right son. Next question
If you hate another for being successful, what are you?
You mean like, you rollin' in Benzes, they be like P.H.ing you
The pigs be pulling you over cause you
Be black and you be sittin' on triple gold
Like the niggas in the ghetto be hatin' on you cause you made it out?
Yea son, what is that, what you call that?
Dad, that only be two words. PLAYA HATA
Huh, you got that right son. Look like you gonna past this test
But I got one more question for you
Son, if any man depends on another man and can't think on his own
Can't survive on his own, can't take good care of his
Family, you know what I mean son
I mean, you were put in this world by yourself
You're supposed to depend on you
And nobody else. I mean son
When a man can't function on his own and put his problems on another man
son, what type of man is that? What do you call that type of person?
Dad, can I curse?
Son, if you have to express yourself. Tell me, what type of man is that?
That a punk ass bitch
Hehehe, damn little P, you bout it, bout it, just like your daddy
Oh wait, one more question before I leave though
What you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be a G like you. A No Limit Soldier for life
Fuck you hatas, 'cause we have millions.
Hey dad
Son who's your favorite rapper and who's your favorite rap group?
You are 'cause you the real ice cream man and my favorite rap group is T.R.U.
'Cause I'm true 2 da game, aha
I'm true 2 da game too son. You did your homework?
You got any studying to do?
Yea dad. Studying this just how to be a true playa
Wanna ask me some questions?
Yea son. Let me see this
Oh they didn't have questions like this when I grew up son
But I guess whatever
It takes to make you be a man son. I'm all for it
Son, the first question is, if you rap about another
Rapper on a record, what are you?
You a sucka!
Aha, you got that right son. Next question
If you hate another for being successful, what are you?
You mean like, you rollin' in Benzes, they be like P.H.ing you
The pigs be pulling you over cause you
Be black and you be sittin' on triple gold
Like the niggas in the ghetto be hatin' on you cause you made it out?
Yea son, what is that, what you call that?
Dad, that only be two words. PLAYA HATA
Huh, you got that right son. Look like you gonna past this test
But I got one more question for you
Son, if any man depends on another man and can't think on his own
Can't survive on his own, can't take good care of his
Family, you know what I mean son
I mean, you were put in this world by yourself
You're supposed to depend on you
And nobody else. I mean son
When a man can't function on his own and put his problems on another man
son, what type of man is that? What do you call that type of person?
Dad, can I curse?
Son, if you have to express yourself. Tell me, what type of man is that?
That a punk ass bitch
Hehehe, damn little P, you bout it, bout it, just like your daddy
Oh wait, one more question before I leave though
What you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be a G like you. A No Limit Soldier for life
Fuck you hatas, 'cause we have millions.
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Intro Lyrics as written by Todd James Schofield James Drescher
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