"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.
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Verse1. You know me no phony two face tony started the Tony's you would think the way the fink sings Impostahs ain't no Goon or Goblin's I puff em then exhale Ghoul's & Goblin's they Poodles dressed up as Mobstahs they scardey cats dressed up as Pit Bull Monstahs what some Impostahs Gary Olum they go nuts when be upload & blow up we balling crazy who wants a JJ Douhnut? Rose, Arroyo, Pronto's, Olympic's, who want some?I got em by block cuzz let me sprinkle some rainbow sprinkles on your dough nut it up then trump it up then get high like crunk sticks like what slump shit like trunk bitch it go go kablewy thru da roof gee tell God to watch out here comes some lugies when I spit like The Real no Impostah fa real fakes get bakes sautaed and shaked like Tonkatsu rich thick sauce drowning them with my flavor fucc a Impostah same thing as a Hater Two Faced Trader
Verse2. Second verse da hearse Impostahs dead when I spit da worse much worse then your turf I got Copyrights of my Collective Work since you a Tranny disguised as a Nanny I Doubt Fire not hot enough for us HellBoy Messiahs Eternal Flame Riders you be around to trade secrets with liars conspires that got to much FIREEEE!!!!!! best believe they wired but not like Coffee but they fastly talking sidebusting lying bustah get the One Eye and busted no Black Jack they not 21 so how they going be 3 Third Eye sees all he's forever looking over humanity peeping what we all do Third Eye Ball no liar fool Pyramid stacks Egypt back how we stack that facts at hand grains of sand in my hand Hourglass Land Sandman grams get served like you Impostah's poison your pasta with hot shots wake up nah Impostah's no tomorrows making up for time borrowed freeze play the lames that hate they Fuckcicles got fucced with my pen a sykle I'm so cold Freezer burns on my Throne the Cold Globe
Verse1. You know me no phony two face tony started the Tony's you would think the way the fink sings Impostahs ain't no Goon or Goblin's I puff em then exhale Ghoul's & Goblin's they Poodles dressed up as Mobstahs they scardey cats dressed up as Pit Bull Monstahs what some Impostahs Gary Olum they go nuts when be upload & blow up we balling crazy who wants a JJ Douhnut? Rose, Arroyo, Pronto's, Olympic's, who want some?I got em by block cuzz let me sprinkle some rainbow sprinkles on your dough nut it up then trump it up then get high like crunk sticks like what slump shit like trunk bitch it go go kablewy thru da roof gee tell God to watch out here comes some lugies when I spit like The Real no Impostah fa real fakes get bakes sautaed and shaked like Tonkatsu rich thick sauce drowning them with my flavor fucc a Impostah same thing as a Hater Two Faced Trader
Verse2. Second verse da hearse Impostahs dead when I spit da worse much worse then your turf I got Copyrights of my Collective Work since you a Tranny disguised as a Nanny I Doubt Fire not hot enough for us HellBoy Messiahs Eternal Flame Riders you be around to trade secrets with liars conspires that got to much FIREEEE!!!!!! best believe they wired but not like Coffee but they fastly talking sidebusting lying bustah get the One Eye and busted no Black Jack they not 21 so how they going be 3 Third Eye sees all he's forever looking over humanity peeping what we all do Third Eye Ball no liar fool Pyramid stacks Egypt back how we stack that facts at hand grains of sand in my hand Hourglass Land Sandman grams get served like you Impostah's poison your pasta with hot shots wake up nah Impostah's no tomorrows making up for time borrowed freeze play the lames that hate they Fuckcicles got fucced with my pen a sykle I'm so cold Freezer burns on my Throne the Cold Globe
Lyrics submitted by KRC-Roseland Ent-The Pac-Planet9
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