"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.
Whim, wham, thank you ma'am
Ay yeah, I won't mind off the top, cut the check
Done done, done did it what's next
Cut the check, dope boy slash rapper slash exec
Cut the check, I really lived the life
Niggas look up to me, I am the sky
Clouds, yeah I'm so fly
Screamin' Bankhead 'til the day I die
You lookin' at the trap in its flesh, rap at its best
Bankhead nigga, Front Street is next
Don't hate me, nigga hate the game
I did it for the money, you did it for the change
Ay! I'm a real go getter
Lo told me, Front Street, go get 'em
Two in the babe made me the babysitter
Got my eggbeater, now I'm fin' to go whimper
Yeah, I got crack on shiver
If the money right hell yeah I'll deliver
Deuce in the quarter, hook the wheel like Skipper
AC blowin and it feel like winter
[Chorus]
I won't stop, I can't stop
Baby girl I need mine off top (cut the check)
God damn right, I'm with the man right?
And this what money really look like (cut the check)
I got paper like Kinko's
And Shawty got 'em for the L-O
This ain't a Honda, get you a two do'
And 800, get you an elbow (yeah)
I got 'em dancin' like Fabo
They geaked up cause I'm cheap like Maaco
Yes sir, I made moves for the peso
So they gotta cut the check when I say so
[Chorus]
I need mine pimp, just get him on the phone
I'm the man's Don, just call me Corleone
Tell them other niggas, they better leave me alone
Bankhead nigga, but I'm from Bowen Homes
Yeah, what's really goin' on?
Ye ain't heard of him? I'm sittin' on the throne
King, ay, that's what's goin' on
Me a stuntin' man? You heard it in the song
[Chorus]
Ay yeah, I won't mind off the top, cut the check
Done done, done did it what's next
Cut the check, dope boy slash rapper slash exec
Cut the check, I really lived the life
Niggas look up to me, I am the sky
Clouds, yeah I'm so fly
Screamin' Bankhead 'til the day I die
You lookin' at the trap in its flesh, rap at its best
Bankhead nigga, Front Street is next
Don't hate me, nigga hate the game
I did it for the money, you did it for the change
Ay! I'm a real go getter
Lo told me, Front Street, go get 'em
Two in the babe made me the babysitter
Got my eggbeater, now I'm fin' to go whimper
Yeah, I got crack on shiver
If the money right hell yeah I'll deliver
Deuce in the quarter, hook the wheel like Skipper
AC blowin and it feel like winter
[Chorus]
I won't stop, I can't stop
Baby girl I need mine off top (cut the check)
God damn right, I'm with the man right?
And this what money really look like (cut the check)
I got paper like Kinko's
And Shawty got 'em for the L-O
This ain't a Honda, get you a two do'
And 800, get you an elbow (yeah)
I got 'em dancin' like Fabo
They geaked up cause I'm cheap like Maaco
Yes sir, I made moves for the peso
So they gotta cut the check when I say so
[Chorus]
I need mine pimp, just get him on the phone
I'm the man's Don, just call me Corleone
Tell them other niggas, they better leave me alone
Bankhead nigga, but I'm from Bowen Homes
Yeah, what's really goin' on?
Ye ain't heard of him? I'm sittin' on the throne
King, ay, that's what's goin' on
Me a stuntin' man? You heard it in the song
[Chorus]
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Cut the Check Lyrics as written by J Turner Carlos Walker
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