"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.
[Verse 1]
Hey Girl!
That's what I said when I seen her
Hey Girl!
Wanna do more than just meet ya
Hey Girl!
Tell me whats your story
Cause later on tonight you could be my shorty
Hey Girl!
If you gotta man you can keep him
Hey Girl!
Cause baby I'm worth the cheating
Hey Girl!
With them pretty brown eyes
Slim waist, thick thighs
Tell me if ya down tonight
[Chorus]
You and me and tonight
Girl what do ya say?
I gotta have it
U's a sexy thing
The way you pop it, shake it, breaking it down for me
You know you bout to be my jumpoff [Repeat: x2]
Verse 2:
Hey Girl!
Gotta spot down town to go to
Hey Girl!
Baby tell me what you goin' do
Hey Girl!
Cause the liquors talking
Plus I know your ready by the way you take it off and oh
Hey Girl!
I'm just stuck on your features
Hey Girl!
And I'm trying beat it up til ya speechless
Hey Girl!
With them pretty brown eyes
All you gotta do is tell me that you goin' be down tonight
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Sean Paul]
Strip club shorty
Big boy bought it
Had to holla at her
Sound like she would fuck the wall in
So I said whats happening
Shorty what the business
Picture you and me riding 4-wheel spinning
5-star living
1st class flying
Ill change your lifestyle
Shorty I ain't lying
Put you in some Gucci heels
And let you walk around
Smoke a Latin blunt with ya
Then its going down
Watch me do my thing
You fucking with Sean Paul
We can hit the bed
And throw her up against the wall
Yeah you the shit
Ya matching panties with ya bra
Yeah you looking good
But shorty goin' take it off
Shorty what it called
Its nothing to a boss
If only for one night
Like Luther Vandross
I'ma keep it trill
And you just do the same
And you just holla at me
When you here em call my name
[Chorus]
Hey Girl!
That's what I said when I seen her
Hey Girl!
Wanna do more than just meet ya
Hey Girl!
Tell me whats your story
Cause later on tonight you could be my shorty
Hey Girl!
If you gotta man you can keep him
Hey Girl!
Cause baby I'm worth the cheating
Hey Girl!
With them pretty brown eyes
Slim waist, thick thighs
Tell me if ya down tonight
[Chorus]
You and me and tonight
Girl what do ya say?
I gotta have it
U's a sexy thing
The way you pop it, shake it, breaking it down for me
You know you bout to be my jumpoff [Repeat: x2]
Verse 2:
Hey Girl!
Gotta spot down town to go to
Hey Girl!
Baby tell me what you goin' do
Hey Girl!
Cause the liquors talking
Plus I know your ready by the way you take it off and oh
Hey Girl!
I'm just stuck on your features
Hey Girl!
And I'm trying beat it up til ya speechless
Hey Girl!
With them pretty brown eyes
All you gotta do is tell me that you goin' be down tonight
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Sean Paul]
Strip club shorty
Big boy bought it
Had to holla at her
Sound like she would fuck the wall in
So I said whats happening
Shorty what the business
Picture you and me riding 4-wheel spinning
5-star living
1st class flying
Ill change your lifestyle
Shorty I ain't lying
Put you in some Gucci heels
And let you walk around
Smoke a Latin blunt with ya
Then its going down
Watch me do my thing
You fucking with Sean Paul
We can hit the bed
And throw her up against the wall
Yeah you the shit
Ya matching panties with ya bra
Yeah you looking good
But shorty goin' take it off
Shorty what it called
Its nothing to a boss
If only for one night
Like Luther Vandross
I'ma keep it trill
And you just do the same
And you just holla at me
When you here em call my name
[Chorus]
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Jump Off Lyrics as written by Sean Joseph Warren Felder
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