"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 got my head on a swivel
Think its time I open my mind where I left it
Nigga make it easy, make sure that they can't delete me
I'm bout to be rewire your whole fucking mainframe
I'm sick of the same, lame old same thing
I got some bubonic you might wanna mix with some whisk
I got a vendetta with showing niggas that I'm way better
Feeling way worthless, the lost black sheep of G.O.O.D. Music
Only good for a hook, huh? Let me show you flows
Intuitive when it comes to many things I know
Cold, most winters I would dream of being a winner
Feeling like less than shit to the doubters
Pain I promise to all who oppose my knowledge
My reign, the fucking essence of pain fuck rain
Standing in a monsoon of cool, time will tell
This is what it is when you're walking to hell
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Owie
I love how I can make so many people feel uneasy
Walk right passed I know you hoes see me
Can't deny the shine of a Jedi
World class almighty super Cudder the Godly
Went from divas to smoking 'tiva that was my hobbies
I love shittin' on these niggas that is my fave
Can't fuck with an unstoppable force
That lives with no regrets and of course no remorse
One two one two, assholes now please listen close
I live for the day to watch all you pussies roast
Whoosah whoosah, so I don't slit nobody throat
Aw it ain't my fault, homie thought he had the juice
Bash a nigga face in, watch the blood leak
Put my ear where his jaw was, tell a nigga to speak
Standing in a monsoon of cool, karma is my armor
Was only scared of my father, beyond that I'm
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Owie
Think its time I open my mind where I left it
Nigga make it easy, make sure that they can't delete me
I'm bout to be rewire your whole fucking mainframe
I'm sick of the same, lame old same thing
I got some bubonic you might wanna mix with some whisk
I got a vendetta with showing niggas that I'm way better
Feeling way worthless, the lost black sheep of G.O.O.D. Music
Only good for a hook, huh? Let me show you flows
Intuitive when it comes to many things I know
Cold, most winters I would dream of being a winner
Feeling like less than shit to the doubters
Pain I promise to all who oppose my knowledge
My reign, the fucking essence of pain fuck rain
Standing in a monsoon of cool, time will tell
This is what it is when you're walking to hell
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Owie
I love how I can make so many people feel uneasy
Walk right passed I know you hoes see me
Can't deny the shine of a Jedi
World class almighty super Cudder the Godly
Went from divas to smoking 'tiva that was my hobbies
I love shittin' on these niggas that is my fave
Can't fuck with an unstoppable force
That lives with no regrets and of course no remorse
One two one two, assholes now please listen close
I live for the day to watch all you pussies roast
Whoosah whoosah, so I don't slit nobody throat
Aw it ain't my fault, homie thought he had the juice
Bash a nigga face in, watch the blood leak
Put my ear where his jaw was, tell a nigga to speak
Standing in a monsoon of cool, karma is my armor
Was only scared of my father, beyond that I'm
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Cold, bitch you know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Oh so cold
Niggas know I'm cold yea
I'm one cold blooded nigga
Owie
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