"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.
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, smoking that dank, beats so loud bystanders faint
Neighborhood watch call and complain, hate on my big fat ass bank
Po-po pull me over say you a rap singer
I know you smoke weed, let me smell your finger
Linger, that the green thumb jars got a valid registration and my cannabis card
I'm challenged, got candy paint on my Harley
Bike and truck, jet ski's boats and old school Cut'
Looking for a top shelf not know
That candy paint, gotta go can't believe their eyes
Drank and dank, flabbergasted mesmerize
Digital dash, having my cash
Secret stash for my strap
Gotta shake these suckers and watch my back
I'm slapping so hard my windshield cracked
Windshield cracked, windshield cracked
I'm slapping so hard my windshield cracked
My old bitch jealous, put my tires on a flattest grass
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
I'm addicted to this flossin' that why all my rides so awesome
I keep that big 'lac bossin' it don't matter what it's costing
Tossing deuces out the roof, but that coupe
While I ride by, players chucking deuces back
Bobs holl'in out "hi"
Feel like I'm up in the sky, yo all know that bay green
Forty got them going [?] when we pull up on the scene
Candy paint, looking clean, fo's looking king size
Heads turn while I drive it's like they can't believe their eyes
It's that that boy thugger and that bad motherfucker
Swanging banging riding dirty screwed & chopped on them suckers
Flipping flipping looking good, diamonds diamonds 'gainst the wood
From the Texas to the Cali, catch me tipping through the hood
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
It's Houston Texas that's the city where we ride the greatest
Gripping grain, drippin' stain, turning up, robber Davis
That old school great tape, a trunk poppa plate scraper
Hustler and a grinder every day I'm trying to make paper
I'm from PA represent for UGK and I'm riding for my city like it's rapper [?]
I got homies on the West I got homies in Detroit
Matter of fact these gladiators are all over, all day
Sittin' in that candy paint sideways,
Pull up outta my driveway
Drop that top and let them jock, then head on out on that highway
Turn up some rig shot, or maybe swisher house
Now pass the kush and dump the swisha out it's going down
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
That candy paint, 84's
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, smoking that dank, beats so loud bystanders faint
Neighborhood watch call and complain, hate on my big fat ass bank
Po-po pull me over say you a rap singer
I know you smoke weed, let me smell your finger
Linger, that the green thumb jars got a valid registration and my cannabis card
I'm challenged, got candy paint on my Harley
Bike and truck, jet ski's boats and old school Cut'
Looking for a top shelf not know
That candy paint, gotta go can't believe their eyes
Drank and dank, flabbergasted mesmerize
Digital dash, having my cash
Secret stash for my strap
Gotta shake these suckers and watch my back
I'm slapping so hard my windshield cracked
Windshield cracked, windshield cracked
I'm slapping so hard my windshield cracked
My old bitch jealous, put my tires on a flattest grass
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
I'm addicted to this flossin' that why all my rides so awesome
I keep that big 'lac bossin' it don't matter what it's costing
Tossing deuces out the roof, but that coupe
While I ride by, players chucking deuces back
Bobs holl'in out "hi"
Feel like I'm up in the sky, yo all know that bay green
Forty got them going [?] when we pull up on the scene
Candy paint, looking clean, fo's looking king size
Heads turn while I drive it's like they can't believe their eyes
It's that that boy thugger and that bad motherfucker
Swanging banging riding dirty screwed & chopped on them suckers
Flipping flipping looking good, diamonds diamonds 'gainst the wood
From the Texas to the Cali, catch me tipping through the hood
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
It's Houston Texas that's the city where we ride the greatest
Gripping grain, drippin' stain, turning up, robber Davis
That old school great tape, a trunk poppa plate scraper
Hustler and a grinder every day I'm trying to make paper
I'm from PA represent for UGK and I'm riding for my city like it's rapper [?]
I got homies on the West I got homies in Detroit
Matter of fact these gladiators are all over, all day
Sittin' in that candy paint sideways,
Pull up outta my driveway
Drop that top and let them jock, then head on out on that highway
Turn up some rig shot, or maybe swisher house
Now pass the kush and dump the swisha out it's going down
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint, 84's, belts and buckles, chrome and grille
Leather seats, stitch and tuck, TV screens and wooded wheels
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's
That candy paint
That candy paint, 84's, built in bumpers, chrome and grille
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