"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.
Gucci mane
Two things
Trap house
Gucci mane in the building (Gucci, Gucci)
Laflare, big kat (laflare)
Say we got it like that (like that)
Every thing don't mean two things, watch this
[hook]
Young Gucci mane got a style so strange
Every word I use might mean two things [Repeat: x3]
Young Gucci mane got a style so strange
Every word I use don't mean two thangs
It ain't the way its the principle
What kind of student make mo money than the principal
And I never made the honor roll
But I'm in the lunch line with a honor roll
You pumping iron in the weight room
I'm on the grind got a nine in the weight room
And I never play softball
But I always kept the hard and the soft balls
You doing math on the calculator
I'm weighing slabs doing math on a calculator
And I ain't trying to to write no essays
I'm trying to to get a hundred pounds for my eses
You trying to learn how ta speak Spanish
But my connect trying to teach me ta speak Spanish
And u a monitor in the hallway
I'm all day on the grind wit a 4-way
[Chorus]
You the one who won the spelling bee
I'm the first 3rd grader wit a felony
And I never was a teacher's pet
I'm the one who went and stole the teacher's cigarettes
And I never went on field trips
I'm at walter's trying to buy me some stash slips
And I always been cut throat
15 taking big niggas starter coats
Laflare entertainment by myself
But I used to have a high right, low left
Gettin' money by da truck loads
Rollin up big fat el productos
Before I drank v.s.o.p. remy
I used to drank that MD 22
Wood-grain and reverse 8's
Box Chevy trunk sounding like a earthquake
[Chorus]
I gotta give it to u raw man
Cause I still keep a trunk full of raw
I'm a nigga from the block man
In the club putting down wit the block man
You probably gotta worker 9 to 5
I'm on the grind with the nines for the 55
Bitch u a half of a 12
Low key bucket trying to duck 12's
So what's up with them t-shirts
I got a t-shirt tuck under my t-shirt
Better watch yo fucking tone man
Cause you know Gucci keep a tone man
[Chorus]
Two things
Trap house
Gucci mane in the building (Gucci, Gucci)
Laflare, big kat (laflare)
Say we got it like that (like that)
Every thing don't mean two things, watch this
[hook]
Young Gucci mane got a style so strange
Every word I use might mean two things [Repeat: x3]
Young Gucci mane got a style so strange
Every word I use don't mean two thangs
It ain't the way its the principle
What kind of student make mo money than the principal
And I never made the honor roll
But I'm in the lunch line with a honor roll
You pumping iron in the weight room
I'm on the grind got a nine in the weight room
And I never play softball
But I always kept the hard and the soft balls
You doing math on the calculator
I'm weighing slabs doing math on a calculator
And I ain't trying to to write no essays
I'm trying to to get a hundred pounds for my eses
You trying to learn how ta speak Spanish
But my connect trying to teach me ta speak Spanish
And u a monitor in the hallway
I'm all day on the grind wit a 4-way
[Chorus]
You the one who won the spelling bee
I'm the first 3rd grader wit a felony
And I never was a teacher's pet
I'm the one who went and stole the teacher's cigarettes
And I never went on field trips
I'm at walter's trying to buy me some stash slips
And I always been cut throat
15 taking big niggas starter coats
Laflare entertainment by myself
But I used to have a high right, low left
Gettin' money by da truck loads
Rollin up big fat el productos
Before I drank v.s.o.p. remy
I used to drank that MD 22
Wood-grain and reverse 8's
Box Chevy trunk sounding like a earthquake
[Chorus]
I gotta give it to u raw man
Cause I still keep a trunk full of raw
I'm a nigga from the block man
In the club putting down wit the block man
You probably gotta worker 9 to 5
I'm on the grind with the nines for the 55
Bitch u a half of a 12
Low key bucket trying to duck 12's
So what's up with them t-shirts
I got a t-shirt tuck under my t-shirt
Better watch yo fucking tone man
Cause you know Gucci keep a tone man
[Chorus]
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