"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.
Aye whoa shut up aint pickin' up shit
Don't know you need to get off my dick
Work too hard think I need to quit
Nah just playin I'll see ya next shift
Got the store jumpin like a trap house
Kal in control never blacked out
Aint no need to be mad now
I spit flow like a damn spout
There aint no more need for usurping
I think God believe in my purpose
Only bend the knee when I worship
Pray my Dopamine resurface
People round me like Kal calm down
Wait dont you see im the man right now
Stress with that you cant find out
You chill too much laid up at the house
Pull you off like some velcro
And Ion need your fuckin help no
Stackin up my wealth bro
Got one girl fuck yourself hoe
Got some shit that dont need addressin
Got good weed dont need the resin
Tell the truth cuz I hate the guessin
I'll cut you off at my own discretion
I'm funny man but dont play around
You'll catch hands on my playground
KD the king who aint been crowned
You'll bend the knee or get torn down
Made my first rack and I did it legitly
I know one day that I’ll make me a milly
Imma blow soon and I know it sounds silly
How could I not all these people gone feel me
Aint lost no more I found new hope
Call the ATF cuz im too dope
And the boy too sweet like glucose
Why my girl wont leave I suppose
She got some cake and Im cleaning the plate
Dont love herself but Im changing her ways
I swear to god this girl changin my fate
After this tape know im uppin my rate
It’s about time that I'm makin a change
If I’m not happy than I am to blame
Gotta stop given away the key to my fate
Gotta quit actin like nothing’s at stake
Fuck whatchu think imma get me a deal
Bet imma blow I spit shit you can feel
Yall can sit back and admire my zeal
Live what I spit so I bet I die real
All this attention is new to me
Do whatchu can to get through to me
DM me whatchu gone do to me
Me and wifey laughin equally
Duckin me with that glitch flow
You aint shit but a bitch bro
Paid twice the fee and I get ghost
Guess it is what it is tho
LSL send the beats I batter em
Intricate schemes in my stratagem
Blow your head back like I had a gun
Push come to shove then im grabbin one
Rap got a new goat
Kal losin control
This just a intro
Welcome to Newhope
Don't know you need to get off my dick
Work too hard think I need to quit
Nah just playin I'll see ya next shift
Got the store jumpin like a trap house
Kal in control never blacked out
Aint no need to be mad now
I spit flow like a damn spout
There aint no more need for usurping
I think God believe in my purpose
Only bend the knee when I worship
Pray my Dopamine resurface
People round me like Kal calm down
Wait dont you see im the man right now
Stress with that you cant find out
You chill too much laid up at the house
Pull you off like some velcro
And Ion need your fuckin help no
Stackin up my wealth bro
Got one girl fuck yourself hoe
Got some shit that dont need addressin
Got good weed dont need the resin
Tell the truth cuz I hate the guessin
I'll cut you off at my own discretion
I'm funny man but dont play around
You'll catch hands on my playground
KD the king who aint been crowned
You'll bend the knee or get torn down
Made my first rack and I did it legitly
I know one day that I’ll make me a milly
Imma blow soon and I know it sounds silly
How could I not all these people gone feel me
Aint lost no more I found new hope
Call the ATF cuz im too dope
And the boy too sweet like glucose
Why my girl wont leave I suppose
She got some cake and Im cleaning the plate
Dont love herself but Im changing her ways
I swear to god this girl changin my fate
After this tape know im uppin my rate
It’s about time that I'm makin a change
If I’m not happy than I am to blame
Gotta stop given away the key to my fate
Gotta quit actin like nothing’s at stake
Fuck whatchu think imma get me a deal
Bet imma blow I spit shit you can feel
Yall can sit back and admire my zeal
Live what I spit so I bet I die real
All this attention is new to me
Do whatchu can to get through to me
DM me whatchu gone do to me
Me and wifey laughin equally
Duckin me with that glitch flow
You aint shit but a bitch bro
Paid twice the fee and I get ghost
Guess it is what it is tho
LSL send the beats I batter em
Intricate schemes in my stratagem
Blow your head back like I had a gun
Push come to shove then im grabbin one
Rap got a new goat
Kal losin control
This just a intro
Welcome to Newhope
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Intro Lyrics as written by Kalvin Patterson
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