"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.
[Chorus: Shonie]
I wish I never met you boy and its killin' me to
Know that I cant have you in my world I wish I never met
You boy if I can turn back time ill make it so you my
Boo I wish I never met you boy every time I'm wit my
Man all I do is sit and think of you don't wanna feel the
Way I feel about you
[Trina]
When we first got together saw us chillin' forever a
Lifetime best friend for worse or for better then you
Switched the weather sunshine to clouds I found a
Condom in your dresser and you know how we get down
You fuckin' clown now I wish I never met you I shoulda
Listened to momma she said you wasn't nuthin' special so
Now its to the left to the left and everything you own is on
The porch nigga step and tell me what would you do if you
Were in my shoes would you make it work or would you
Wanna choose between the one you love and between the
One you wit cause thats just how it is
[Chorus]
[Trina]
Maybe I'm trippin' or I just cant figure you out one
Night you say you love the next night you flippin' out but
You can bounce you know I don't need a man I'm sorry I met
You I could do bad by my damn self I cant let you
Disrespect me I'm a queen and all my real boss chicks know
What I mean I bet you still trickin' you ain't learned ya
Lesson now let me check ya text messages and tell me
[Shonie]
What would you do if you were in my shoes would
You make it work or would you wanna choose between
The one you love and between the one you wit cause thats
Just how it is
[Chorus]
[Shonie]
Picture me and you together everything about you
Made my whole body shiver its you I want in my world
Its you that I adore said I picture me and you together
Everything about you made my whole body quiver its
You I want in my world its you that I adore what
Would you do if you were in my shoes would you make
It work or would you wanna choose between the one you
Love and between the one you wit cause thats just how it is
[Chorus]
If I can turn back time ill
Make it so you my boo I wish I never met you boy
Every time I'm wit my man all I do is sit and think of you
I wish I never met you boy and its killin' me to
Know that I cant have you in my world I wish I never met
You boy if I can turn back time ill make it so you my
Boo I wish I never met you boy every time I'm wit my
Man all I do is sit and think of you don't wanna feel the
Way I feel about you
[Trina]
When we first got together saw us chillin' forever a
Lifetime best friend for worse or for better then you
Switched the weather sunshine to clouds I found a
Condom in your dresser and you know how we get down
You fuckin' clown now I wish I never met you I shoulda
Listened to momma she said you wasn't nuthin' special so
Now its to the left to the left and everything you own is on
The porch nigga step and tell me what would you do if you
Were in my shoes would you make it work or would you
Wanna choose between the one you love and between the
One you wit cause thats just how it is
[Chorus]
[Trina]
Maybe I'm trippin' or I just cant figure you out one
Night you say you love the next night you flippin' out but
You can bounce you know I don't need a man I'm sorry I met
You I could do bad by my damn self I cant let you
Disrespect me I'm a queen and all my real boss chicks know
What I mean I bet you still trickin' you ain't learned ya
Lesson now let me check ya text messages and tell me
[Shonie]
What would you do if you were in my shoes would
You make it work or would you wanna choose between
The one you love and between the one you wit cause thats
Just how it is
[Chorus]
[Shonie]
Picture me and you together everything about you
Made my whole body shiver its you I want in my world
Its you that I adore said I picture me and you together
Everything about you made my whole body quiver its
You I want in my world its you that I adore what
Would you do if you were in my shoes would you make
It work or would you wanna choose between the one you
Love and between the one you wit cause thats just how it is
[Chorus]
If I can turn back time ill
Make it so you my boo I wish I never met you boy
Every time I'm wit my man all I do is sit and think of you
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Wish I Never Met You Lyrics as written by Katrina Taylor James Scheffer
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