"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.
Coat brush dJ Khaled
Jones
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(That's all we know how to
Do who invented this thing)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Ay just have me a drop top on deck when
I land i be back when it's warm)
I started from an ounce (28)
Stretched that to 42 (ehh)
Flipped that to shawty blue
Took it to the sporty coup (Go)
Now, I can get it for a 23
So short give me 42
And what the fuck ya gonna do (what else)
BALL! I'm all for it like Brandon Roy
Long story short
Lets fast forward to the brand new toys
(swish) my jewellery loud
Motherfuckers can't stand the noise
(turn it down) my chain swing like the hands
On Floyd dammit boy! (watch it! watch it)
Motherfuckers wanna shoot my brains out
(word) tell these niggas catch me I'm in
The coop with my braids out! (nigga)
They said the summer with the
Roof is kinda played out (so what?)
So I told the dealer keep the
Ceilin' on my way out bALL!
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
I'm gainin on em
Guess who's gettin famous on em (JONES)
Private plane'n on em
Buy cars no payments on em (No test drive)
I ball with guns, I'm Arenas on em
(Bang Bang) its all for fun
We flood the necklace with saints up on em
(pray for us)
Tell big them 700's we still waitin on em
(be patient) the weatherman we make it snow
We cocainin' on em! (we takin)
We make them bitches melt when
They see me out (chilly)
With them fly cars you
Faggot niggas dream about (get ya money up)
I'm spillin champagne on my dress clothes
(so what) i'mma need a scarf before my
Chain give me chest colds (CHILLY)
I got these bitches duckin dick like (HAHA)
When they see me pull to the spot, we're like
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
We fly to hot spots when New York is chilly
So I be driving drop tops
When New York is chilly (I'm cold hearted)
Silly!, You know u eatin when
U can cough a millies
Willy, the cars at least
Cost a quarter millie (buy that)
You know my lifetsyle
Back and forth flights out
Spendin money nights out
Till the lord say it's lights out
(pour out some liquor) my is callin' (uh oh)
And even with the lights all off
You can still see the jewellery
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
Jones
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(That's all we know how to
Do who invented this thing)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Ay just have me a drop top on deck when
I land i be back when it's warm)
I started from an ounce (28)
Stretched that to 42 (ehh)
Flipped that to shawty blue
Took it to the sporty coup (Go)
Now, I can get it for a 23
So short give me 42
And what the fuck ya gonna do (what else)
BALL! I'm all for it like Brandon Roy
Long story short
Lets fast forward to the brand new toys
(swish) my jewellery loud
Motherfuckers can't stand the noise
(turn it down) my chain swing like the hands
On Floyd dammit boy! (watch it! watch it)
Motherfuckers wanna shoot my brains out
(word) tell these niggas catch me I'm in
The coop with my braids out! (nigga)
They said the summer with the
Roof is kinda played out (so what?)
So I told the dealer keep the
Ceilin' on my way out bALL!
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
I'm gainin on em
Guess who's gettin famous on em (JONES)
Private plane'n on em
Buy cars no payments on em (No test drive)
I ball with guns, I'm Arenas on em
(Bang Bang) its all for fun
We flood the necklace with saints up on em
(pray for us)
Tell big them 700's we still waitin on em
(be patient) the weatherman we make it snow
We cocainin' on em! (we takin)
We make them bitches melt when
They see me out (chilly)
With them fly cars you
Faggot niggas dream about (get ya money up)
I'm spillin champagne on my dress clothes
(so what) i'mma need a scarf before my
Chain give me chest colds (CHILLY)
I got these bitches duckin dick like (HAHA)
When they see me pull to the spot, we're like
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
We fly to hot spots when New York is chilly
So I be driving drop tops
When New York is chilly (I'm cold hearted)
Silly!, You know u eatin when
U can cough a millies
Willy, the cars at least
Cost a quarter millie (buy that)
You know my lifetsyle
Back and forth flights out
Spendin money nights out
Till the lord say it's lights out
(pour out some liquor) my is callin' (uh oh)
And even with the lights all off
You can still see the jewellery
It started with some packs (Go)
Then a couple cars (Jim Jones)
Wake up with my dogs (Go)
Took over the block (Lets Go) and then we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(Show me the money what's up now)
Now we run the city (MI yayo what it do)
Motherfuck the law (Victory)
Push the latest cars
(What the numbers lookin' like Khaled)
Cause we move a lot of raw and so we
Ball, ball, ball ball, ball, ball, ball
(It's not so funny now i
Can't hear you niggas now)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Ball Lyrics as written by Oscar Zayas Ian Lewis
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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