"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.
I've come to shake my ass
I've come to shake my ass (Three 6 Mafia!)
I've come to shake my ass
I've come to shake my ass (Hypnotize minds)
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
I'm all up in the club
Fresh em off the trout
Snatching up town like an old mouse trap
Tell me what what it is
How the 88 sound
Wanna take it to my crib
For a little night cap
Pretend to slap
Ghetto clap
Tap Tap Tap to the pretty 'lil gap
Pump and burn to knicca
Pump and burn to knicca
Taking a lil' break
Patron, pop the cap
Then hit me back up like she being Kidnapped
Body movin' like there she go make me snap
Already got me hard, like high school jock straps
Let's recap there's no body rubs
Tequila shots, now there's that love
If you ain't no titter
You better catch up
Body shots like what, what
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
Once again in the booty club
Tryin' to get some love
I'm a do what I gotta do
All of the above
When I touch
Even when I cut
Damn I like a butt
Black and white mixed like a mutt
I prefer a slut
I'm a pimp walking with a limp
Got into a pinch
In my pants, up and down a clip
Held by chimp
I'm the man when it come to this
Throwin' out tips
Man her hips will make you flip
I prefer her lips
On my chopstick, don't stop it
Lap dance take money out your pocket
She can move it and drop it
With her clothes on I guess ill make her topless
She a hot girl in her own world On the spot girl
Body tease body all greased like a S curl
Deezies look at her face man kinda sleezy
Pop it shake that thang girl please me
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
I'm a real role figure, let me tell you what I think
I like women and I like skanks
I like cars with that candy paint
And an iced out booty with an iced out make
I like girls when their goody good good
Wood peckers peckin' on tha' woody wood wood
She love a thug from the hoody hood hood
Takin' the whole thing like I know she could
Baby
You Sexy
Scratch my back
Bite my lips
Just like that
Baby, you're sexy
Scratch my back
Bite my lips
Just like that
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
ON the floor on the pave with the phone, phone
I'm the girl with the pocket and the bass drum
In the limo like my business like em thong, thong
I'm the boom with the bang with the bomb, bomb
I've come to shake my ass (Three 6 Mafia!)
I've come to shake my ass
I've come to shake my ass (Hypnotize minds)
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
I'm all up in the club
Fresh em off the trout
Snatching up town like an old mouse trap
Tell me what what it is
How the 88 sound
Wanna take it to my crib
For a little night cap
Pretend to slap
Ghetto clap
Tap Tap Tap to the pretty 'lil gap
Pump and burn to knicca
Pump and burn to knicca
Taking a lil' break
Patron, pop the cap
Then hit me back up like she being Kidnapped
Body movin' like there she go make me snap
Already got me hard, like high school jock straps
Let's recap there's no body rubs
Tequila shots, now there's that love
If you ain't no titter
You better catch up
Body shots like what, what
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
Once again in the booty club
Tryin' to get some love
I'm a do what I gotta do
All of the above
When I touch
Even when I cut
Damn I like a butt
Black and white mixed like a mutt
I prefer a slut
I'm a pimp walking with a limp
Got into a pinch
In my pants, up and down a clip
Held by chimp
I'm the man when it come to this
Throwin' out tips
Man her hips will make you flip
I prefer her lips
On my chopstick, don't stop it
Lap dance take money out your pocket
She can move it and drop it
With her clothes on I guess ill make her topless
She a hot girl in her own world On the spot girl
Body tease body all greased like a S curl
Deezies look at her face man kinda sleezy
Pop it shake that thang girl please me
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' 'em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
I'm a real role figure, let me tell you what I think
I like women and I like skanks
I like cars with that candy paint
And an iced out booty with an iced out make
I like girls when their goody good good
Wood peckers peckin' on tha' woody wood wood
She love a thug from the hoody hood hood
Takin' the whole thing like I know she could
Baby
You Sexy
Scratch my back
Bite my lips
Just like that
Baby, you're sexy
Scratch my back
Bite my lips
Just like that
I've come to shake my ass
Need anything I'm gonna give it real
Just wanna shake my ass
Mean when I drink cause I'm onto you
So can I shake my ass
Meanwhile I'm shakin' makin' em sing sing
With the bang with the bomb, with the bomb
ON the floor on the pave with the phone, phone
I'm the girl with the pocket and the bass drum
In the limo like my business like em thong, thong
I'm the boom with the bang with the bomb, bomb
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