"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.
Ah ha
Pass the Guinness
Yeah
Gully Gad, from Kingston
Yeah yeah
We the best music
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So me say be careful a di road dem weh yuh walk
Some a carry drugs and some a dem have dutty heart
Chat in front yuh face, dem wha' fi kill you when you pass
You dem woulda lost so it's best if you nuh talk
I'm on another level like a Noah wid dah Ark
A me nuh fair di devil with the fork
Touch Gullyside guns smoke and guns spark
All a me enemies dead off
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
Every street, every block Gullyside honor me
Tell dem we the best is just a family
From Kingston, Jamaica to Miami
We taking over, lead mek dem folla' we
Sing it
Every Gangsta pon dem corner
A smoke di marijuana
Far as dem eyes can see
Me a di real thing
From New York to California
To Arizona dem haffi set we free
Old Gangalee, ride if you with me
Show the lighters let me know
Lighters let me know, you know
Hands in the skies if you with me
It's the Gullyside life you know
You now you know
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
Pass the Guinness
Yeah
Gully Gad, from Kingston
Yeah yeah
We the best music
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So me say be careful a di road dem weh yuh walk
Some a carry drugs and some a dem have dutty heart
Chat in front yuh face, dem wha' fi kill you when you pass
You dem woulda lost so it's best if you nuh talk
I'm on another level like a Noah wid dah Ark
A me nuh fair di devil with the fork
Touch Gullyside guns smoke and guns spark
All a me enemies dead off
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
Every street, every block Gullyside honor me
Tell dem we the best is just a family
From Kingston, Jamaica to Miami
We taking over, lead mek dem folla' we
Sing it
Every Gangsta pon dem corner
A smoke di marijuana
Far as dem eyes can see
Me a di real thing
From New York to California
To Arizona dem haffi set we free
Old Gangalee, ride if you with me
Show the lighters let me know
Lighters let me know, you know
Hands in the skies if you with me
It's the Gullyside life you know
You now you know
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
So suicidal, first dem ever seen this
Gangsta' for life, the realist
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Suicidal Thoughts Lyrics as written by David Brooks Matthew Samuels
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