"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'm a little nipsey hustle plus a little pixie dust
I piss all on your bike, I like to see your fixie rust
I'm in the pile of Fly-lo wannabe followers
Sending photos in all-over print nylons
Nylon magazine saying I hold the mic wrong
Smile glad like I wanna be in your Nikon's
Viewfinder, I'm white ball in
The corner pocket, scratch the bumps on my skin, like
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
I grew up on the shy side, the free wi-fi side
The OCD side, you know it's me, Pryde
But I don't really have much of that so
I'm blushing while I'm running the show
I don't want to take a flick and I never take photos
I never say yolo, I never say cheese
I don't wanna pose 'cause I don't want 'em to see
The anxiety rash I'm hiding under my sleeves
It looks weak, to get all red and
Itchy when I'm barely upset but
It's bad enough to make 'em call a medic
I could be in Cali or Connecticut
I'm loud and always yelling and
I'm kinda like a pelican, 'cause my mouth
Is way bigger than my belly and
I like to keep some feathers on my skeleton
I'm not a bird but I pretend I am when I shit on your head
Outside your residence, without my medicine, I'm stressing 'cause
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
I'm a little nipsey hustle plus a little pixie dust
I piss all on your bike, I like to see your fixie rust
I'm in the pile of Fly-lo wannabes
Prank callin' me all the time, and
I just wanna grind, I just wanna flex
I don't really mind all the politics and stress
I like to be the trending topic, the pound key
Even though I break out when they hound me
And rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
I piss all on your bike, I like to see your fixie rust
I'm in the pile of Fly-lo wannabe followers
Sending photos in all-over print nylons
Nylon magazine saying I hold the mic wrong
Smile glad like I wanna be in your Nikon's
Viewfinder, I'm white ball in
The corner pocket, scratch the bumps on my skin, like
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
I grew up on the shy side, the free wi-fi side
The OCD side, you know it's me, Pryde
But I don't really have much of that so
I'm blushing while I'm running the show
I don't want to take a flick and I never take photos
I never say yolo, I never say cheese
I don't wanna pose 'cause I don't want 'em to see
The anxiety rash I'm hiding under my sleeves
It looks weak, to get all red and
Itchy when I'm barely upset but
It's bad enough to make 'em call a medic
I could be in Cali or Connecticut
I'm loud and always yelling and
I'm kinda like a pelican, 'cause my mouth
Is way bigger than my belly and
I like to keep some feathers on my skeleton
I'm not a bird but I pretend I am when I shit on your head
Outside your residence, without my medicine, I'm stressing 'cause
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena-benadryl y'all
I'm a little nipsey hustle plus a little pixie dust
I piss all on your bike, I like to see your fixie rust
I'm in the pile of Fly-lo wannabes
Prank callin' me all the time, and
I just wanna grind, I just wanna flex
I don't really mind all the politics and stress
I like to be the trending topic, the pound key
Even though I break out when they hound me
And rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Rash rules everything around me
Getting drowsy, bena benadryl yawl
Lyrics submitted by ghostyyy
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