"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.
Everybody's breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together ('gether, 'gether)
Let's stay together
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together, (together, together)
Let's stay together yeah
Yeah, tell y'all a lil' story right quick man, Luda!
First the Fat Boyz break up
Now everyday I wake up
Somebody done call it quits
Shit I thought Bobby and Whitney stay together forever if they made it that long
I guess the drugs weren't that strong
And now it's Russel and Kimora even Jordan and Wanita
And to top it off Brad left Jen for Angelina
What the hell is going on in this World
This just can't be
If Will and Jada can do it, then why can't we?
Hillary is still with Bill Clinton
How did they do it? He got his dick sucked and the whole damn world knew it
Now Paul McCartney losing half of his life
All because he got divorced from his wife
Somebody said, "It's cheaper to keep her"
But not in K-Fed's case (nope)
'Cause Britney even had to pay for K-Fed's case (cha-ching)
Nick and Jessica, Trina and Wayne
And if you broke up with your girl I know you feelin' the pain because
Everybody's breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall Common
Everybody's breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall
First it was Shaq and Kobe (yea), then Iverson and Philly (yeah)
T.O. and Mcnabb (yea), even Game and 50 (yep)
I guess sometimes you gotta let the past be the past (past)
But I'd give a hundred thou' to see Jay with Dame Dash
B.G. with Lil' Wayne (yeah), Juvenile and Turk (yeah)
Mannie Fresh with Baby (un huh)
How can we make it work? Crunchy with 3-6 (yeah)
Diamond with Crime Mob (yea!), Lauryn Hill with the Fugees (what?)
Remy with Terror Squad (Woo!), Lil' Kim back with see's and Snoop with More Dre
Dre With Mo-Big Boys, CD's with Mo-Plays
Tribes with no Quest, Salt with no Pepa
Even the Eagles broke up and got the fuck back together
Selling millions of copies And getting that cash
And Raz be said, "Chris Stokes was getting that ass", I don't even understand it
What the hell went wrong? Maybe folks will wise up and take heed to this song because
Everybody's breaking, breaking Up,
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody's breaking, breaking Up,
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall (I can't take it, oh)
First Wu-Tang broke up, Now O.D.B. is gone
Now I'm hearing Cam'ron don't talk to Jim Jones
Who would've saw that Shit coming?
Certainly not me, or Tha Dogg Pound break up, or Goodie M-O-be
Then Shawnna almost jumped ship from DTP
If Chingy left and came back
Then damn it why can't she?
We gotta think us of all for one
And one for all HIP HOP
United we stand divided we
Fall So why is?
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together ('gether, 'gether)
Let's stay together
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together, (together, together)
Let's stay together yeah
Yeah, tell y'all a lil' story right quick man, Luda!
First the Fat Boyz break up
Now everyday I wake up
Somebody done call it quits
Shit I thought Bobby and Whitney stay together forever if they made it that long
I guess the drugs weren't that strong
And now it's Russel and Kimora even Jordan and Wanita
And to top it off Brad left Jen for Angelina
What the hell is going on in this World
This just can't be
If Will and Jada can do it, then why can't we?
Hillary is still with Bill Clinton
How did they do it? He got his dick sucked and the whole damn world knew it
Now Paul McCartney losing half of his life
All because he got divorced from his wife
Somebody said, "It's cheaper to keep her"
But not in K-Fed's case (nope)
'Cause Britney even had to pay for K-Fed's case (cha-ching)
Nick and Jessica, Trina and Wayne
And if you broke up with your girl I know you feelin' the pain because
Everybody's breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall Common
Everybody's breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall
First it was Shaq and Kobe (yea), then Iverson and Philly (yeah)
T.O. and Mcnabb (yea), even Game and 50 (yep)
I guess sometimes you gotta let the past be the past (past)
But I'd give a hundred thou' to see Jay with Dame Dash
B.G. with Lil' Wayne (yeah), Juvenile and Turk (yeah)
Mannie Fresh with Baby (un huh)
How can we make it work? Crunchy with 3-6 (yeah)
Diamond with Crime Mob (yea!), Lauryn Hill with the Fugees (what?)
Remy with Terror Squad (Woo!), Lil' Kim back with see's and Snoop with More Dre
Dre With Mo-Big Boys, CD's with Mo-Plays
Tribes with no Quest, Salt with no Pepa
Even the Eagles broke up and got the fuck back together
Selling millions of copies And getting that cash
And Raz be said, "Chris Stokes was getting that ass", I don't even understand it
What the hell went wrong? Maybe folks will wise up and take heed to this song because
Everybody's breaking, breaking Up,
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody's breaking, breaking Up,
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall (I can't take it, oh)
First Wu-Tang broke up, Now O.D.B. is gone
Now I'm hearing Cam'ron don't talk to Jim Jones
Who would've saw that Shit coming?
Certainly not me, or Tha Dogg Pound break up, or Goodie M-O-be
Then Shawnna almost jumped ship from DTP
If Chingy left and came back
Then damn it why can't she?
We gotta think us of all for one
And one for all HIP HOP
United we stand divided we
Fall So why is?
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall, come on
Everybody breaking, breaking up
Let's stay together (together, together)
United we stand, divided we fall
Let's stay together united we stand, divided we fall
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Let's Stay Together Lyrics as written by Kenneth Gamble Christopher Bridges
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