"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.
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Lets go, yeah, you're listening now
They said they ain't heard nothing like this in a while
That's why they play my songs on so many different dials
'Cause I got more hits and I got more style
So when they see me everybody baraap baraap
Standing like a young gun fully backed and trapped
My criteria drops over the massive attack
I only make hits like I work with a racket and bat
Look at my jacket and hat so so berserk
So down to earth I'm bringing gravity back
Adopted by the major I want my family back
People work hard just to get all their salary taxed
Look I'm just a writer from the ghetto like Mallory Black-man
(Where's all the world's sanity at?)
Man, I used to be the kid that no on cared about
That's why you have to keep screaming till they hear you out
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Oh Oh Oh Oh
(Oh)
Yeah, I needed a change
When we ate we never took 'cause we needed a change
I needed a break, for a sec I even gave up believing the same
I even done the legal stuff and was leaded astray
The say that money is the root to the evilest ways
But have you ever been so hungry it keeps you awake
May, now my hunger will leave them amazed, great
It feels like a long time coming, found
Since the day I thought of that cunning plan
One day I had a dream I tried to chase it but I wasn't goin' nowhere
Running round I knew that maybe someday I would understand
Tryna change a tenner to a hundred grand
Everyone's a kid that no one cares about
You just gotta screamin' till they hear you out
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Yeah, seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Oh Oh Oh Oh
(Oh)
Kidz Bop let's go?
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away (so far away)
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go (come and go) but I will never change
(Won't change) And I am on my way (I'm on my way)
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Lets go, yeah, you're listening now
They said they ain't heard nothing like this in a while
That's why they play my songs on so many different dials
'Cause I got more hits and I got more style
So when they see me everybody baraap baraap
Standing like a young gun fully backed and trapped
My criteria drops over the massive attack
I only make hits like I work with a racket and bat
Look at my jacket and hat so so berserk
So down to earth I'm bringing gravity back
Adopted by the major I want my family back
People work hard just to get all their salary taxed
Look I'm just a writer from the ghetto like Mallory Black-man
(Where's all the world's sanity at?)
Man, I used to be the kid that no on cared about
That's why you have to keep screaming till they hear you out
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Oh Oh Oh Oh
(Oh)
Yeah, I needed a change
When we ate we never took 'cause we needed a change
I needed a break, for a sec I even gave up believing the same
I even done the legal stuff and was leaded astray
The say that money is the root to the evilest ways
But have you ever been so hungry it keeps you awake
May, now my hunger will leave them amazed, great
It feels like a long time coming, found
Since the day I thought of that cunning plan
One day I had a dream I tried to chase it but I wasn't goin' nowhere
Running round I knew that maybe someday I would understand
Tryna change a tenner to a hundred grand
Everyone's a kid that no one cares about
You just gotta screamin' till they hear you out
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Yeah, seasons come and go but I will never change
And I am on my way
Oh Oh Oh Oh
(Oh)
Kidz Bop let's go?
Oh, written in the stars, a million miles away (so far away)
A message to the main oh, oh, oh
Seasons come and go (come and go) but I will never change
(Won't change) And I am on my way (I'm on my way)
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Written in the Stars Lyrics as written by Eshraque Mughal Charlie Bernardo
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