"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.
Shorty been eyeing me
She looking like she thinking about tryin me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
I am tear it up when I
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep
I'm a have her screaming like
Go go go go go go
I'm a have her screaming like
Go go go go go go
I'm a tear it up
Excuse me miss but sexy can I
Take you to my crib
Make love on my piano
Yea you know me lil shorty from Atlanta
I wanna do some things to you
Touch your body make you get naughty
Say my name when I beep beep beep
We can do it in the pool or
The jeep jeep jeep
Cause girl you know your turning me on
Shorty been eyein me
She lookin like she thinking about tryin me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
Got a pole in my condo
I can make it rain
Now make you clap for me
You driving me crazy
I know you want me cause I want you girl
Tell me can we kick it on tonight
Lights camera action I'll play director
Turn you out let me sneak a peak
Turn you out on the late night creep
Ain't playin no games tonight
Shorty been eyeing me
She looking like she thinking about trying me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
I am tear it up when I
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep
I can tell the way she watching me
She love the way I swag out
Got enough to go around
Might as well pass it out
She said she like the way
I work her out till she passing out
Wanna be with a star well
Mama I'm a astronaut
Let her lick the wrapper I call
That the jaw breaker
If her back was the law then
Call me a law breaker
Love the way she roll her hips
Is like she on the bean shopping
Make her lose her boy just like
She on the scream machine
She said my cavalli cologne
Be turning her on
And she a fiend because my black
Snake be making her moan
Like beep beep beep beep beep
All night we gon freak
Freak freak freak freak
Shorty been eying me
She looking like she thinking about trying me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
I'm a do it just like that
I'm a do it just like that
She looking like she thinking about tryin me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
I am tear it up when I
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep
I'm a have her screaming like
Go go go go go go
I'm a have her screaming like
Go go go go go go
I'm a tear it up
Excuse me miss but sexy can I
Take you to my crib
Make love on my piano
Yea you know me lil shorty from Atlanta
I wanna do some things to you
Touch your body make you get naughty
Say my name when I beep beep beep
We can do it in the pool or
The jeep jeep jeep
Cause girl you know your turning me on
Shorty been eyein me
She lookin like she thinking about tryin me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
Got a pole in my condo
I can make it rain
Now make you clap for me
You driving me crazy
I know you want me cause I want you girl
Tell me can we kick it on tonight
Lights camera action I'll play director
Turn you out let me sneak a peak
Turn you out on the late night creep
Ain't playin no games tonight
Shorty been eyeing me
She looking like she thinking about trying me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep beep
I am tear it up when I
Beep beep beep beep beep
She going let me
Beep beep beep beep
I can tell the way she watching me
She love the way I swag out
Got enough to go around
Might as well pass it out
She said she like the way
I work her out till she passing out
Wanna be with a star well
Mama I'm a astronaut
Let her lick the wrapper I call
That the jaw breaker
If her back was the law then
Call me a law breaker
Love the way she roll her hips
Is like she on the bean shopping
Make her lose her boy just like
She on the scream machine
She said my cavalli cologne
Be turning her on
And she a fiend because my black
Snake be making her moan
Like beep beep beep beep beep
All night we gon freak
Freak freak freak freak
Shorty been eying me
She looking like she thinking about trying me
She want it she can't take no more
I'm about to take her to my spot
I'm a get it hot, she gonna
Turn around and let me
[Chorus]
I'm a do it just like that
I'm a do it just like that
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Beep Lyrics as written by Jasiel Almon T. Robinson Bobby Marcel Wilson
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