"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.
How'd you know
'Cause I was there
Yeah that shit go
Came prepared
Set it slow rolled
Anticipation grow slow
Deviated septum blow hole
Sugar cane ko ko
Aye, aye, pass the dro my way
Or no way twenty fo no 25-8
Thought you knew
Suicide lane
Fuck you
Grab my crotch, what's my name
Been round the block
Hangin' scumbag slangin'
Pay dirt cave in
Takin' no prisoners
No escapin' wash brain hook
Nothin' I'm sayin'
Aye, aye, know what I'm sayin'
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
Sprayin' execution witch fingernails clawin' through dem
Crawlin' through dem
Tunnels loosin'
Touch with everything I'm doin'
Argh mass confusion
Can't make more electrocution
Half cocked full tilt
Rabid dog
Filth argh
Know what I'm sayin'
Fuck it
Upside down in a
Soft top bucket
Screamin'
Shred it
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
Let me off, screeching halt
Concussion blinding
Not my fault
Ankles tied to cinder blocks
Aye, aye
By any means necesserated
Blade cut me
Sewer drain grated
Bubonic plague
Spreaded faceless
Lurking in the deadest spaces
On your knees, black goat anus
Christo anti clan of shameless
Came to whip those
Into shapeless
Here we go, devastated
Here we go
Diamonds scrapin' the marrow, out my core
Who's in the mirror
Who's at the door
Someone's there
Wasn't there before
Ceiling connected
To the chord
Pull it, pull that shit
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
'Cause I was there
Yeah that shit go
Came prepared
Set it slow rolled
Anticipation grow slow
Deviated septum blow hole
Sugar cane ko ko
Aye, aye, pass the dro my way
Or no way twenty fo no 25-8
Thought you knew
Suicide lane
Fuck you
Grab my crotch, what's my name
Been round the block
Hangin' scumbag slangin'
Pay dirt cave in
Takin' no prisoners
No escapin' wash brain hook
Nothin' I'm sayin'
Aye, aye, know what I'm sayin'
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
Sprayin' execution witch fingernails clawin' through dem
Crawlin' through dem
Tunnels loosin'
Touch with everything I'm doin'
Argh mass confusion
Can't make more electrocution
Half cocked full tilt
Rabid dog
Filth argh
Know what I'm sayin'
Fuck it
Upside down in a
Soft top bucket
Screamin'
Shred it
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
Let me off, screeching halt
Concussion blinding
Not my fault
Ankles tied to cinder blocks
Aye, aye
By any means necesserated
Blade cut me
Sewer drain grated
Bubonic plague
Spreaded faceless
Lurking in the deadest spaces
On your knees, black goat anus
Christo anti clan of shameless
Came to whip those
Into shapeless
Here we go, devastated
Here we go
Diamonds scrapin' the marrow, out my core
Who's in the mirror
Who's at the door
Someone's there
Wasn't there before
Ceiling connected
To the chord
Pull it, pull that shit
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the diamonds, scrapin'
Sidin', wastin' my life
In altered states dem
Back it up
I got the fever
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The Fever (Aye Aye) Lyrics as written by Stefan Corbin Burnett Andrew Morin
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