"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.
Crank my car with the tip of my fingernail
Wanna shop with me then by you a bigger scale
Wanna cop choppers plenty yoppers then call me
Got more god damn guns than an army
So Icy Entertainment soliders cock it and aim it
And we don't want a sign just make you famous
So many rings on I need another pinky
I hit more broads than Wilt the Chamberlain
I'm all black, rich, and I'm extra dangerous
I'm handsome (?) almost famous
I'm workin' with the fork and the sides I'm scrapin'
I burn it, turn it the crack is Cajun
Your Auntie hit it said it's amazing
Your uncle pawned your Playstation
The dope man got on new Ballys
I slam dunk bricks my plug throwed an alley
I'm shark meat, caviar, kush, and salad
The coke from Venezuela but the kush from Cali
A million dollars worth of carats gotcha jealous
But ain't nothing a hater can tell us
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
They can't tax me whatcha gon' tax me
Ask me I sell chicken like Zaxby's
Stacks and racks and Franklins and Jacksons
Packs and bales we sell them white dragons
I'm a talking brick they need to unwrap me
God take my breath if Gucci's not trappin
65 pounds of mid in my magnum
'caine same color as baby girl's dandruff
Kush same color as baby boy's stacks
Purp same color as Adrian Pete's fans is
Dog is a falcon black, red, white diamonds
Same height and same weight as a lineman
Pulled up in a donk and gave your girl the Heisman
Touchdown in the 6 I'm dancin' like Rodman
Skrt Skrt dancin' my egg beater harmonizin'
That's my machine advertisement
That's my AK homiciding
That's Gucci's favorite line man
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
My scale see mo' blow than 4 drug stores
I'm drinking ice tea my girlfriend a coke ho
I strap a brick to her tell the bitch to go go
Nowhere she go nobody ___ this ho
I'm workin' with this fizo
Egg beater good but I'm workin' the fizork
'caine so pretty bitches love to snizort
I'm tryna sell everything they could import
Or export, my young nigga from Shreveport
But I don't show love I give him what he paid for
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
Wanna shop with me then by you a bigger scale
Wanna cop choppers plenty yoppers then call me
Got more god damn guns than an army
So Icy Entertainment soliders cock it and aim it
And we don't want a sign just make you famous
So many rings on I need another pinky
I hit more broads than Wilt the Chamberlain
I'm all black, rich, and I'm extra dangerous
I'm handsome (?) almost famous
I'm workin' with the fork and the sides I'm scrapin'
I burn it, turn it the crack is Cajun
Your Auntie hit it said it's amazing
Your uncle pawned your Playstation
The dope man got on new Ballys
I slam dunk bricks my plug throwed an alley
I'm shark meat, caviar, kush, and salad
The coke from Venezuela but the kush from Cali
A million dollars worth of carats gotcha jealous
But ain't nothing a hater can tell us
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
They can't tax me whatcha gon' tax me
Ask me I sell chicken like Zaxby's
Stacks and racks and Franklins and Jacksons
Packs and bales we sell them white dragons
I'm a talking brick they need to unwrap me
God take my breath if Gucci's not trappin
65 pounds of mid in my magnum
'caine same color as baby girl's dandruff
Kush same color as baby boy's stacks
Purp same color as Adrian Pete's fans is
Dog is a falcon black, red, white diamonds
Same height and same weight as a lineman
Pulled up in a donk and gave your girl the Heisman
Touchdown in the 6 I'm dancin' like Rodman
Skrt Skrt dancin' my egg beater harmonizin'
That's my machine advertisement
That's my AK homiciding
That's Gucci's favorite line man
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
My scale see mo' blow than 4 drug stores
I'm drinking ice tea my girlfriend a coke ho
I strap a brick to her tell the bitch to go go
Nowhere she go nobody ___ this ho
I'm workin' with this fizo
Egg beater good but I'm workin' the fizork
'caine so pretty bitches love to snizort
I'm tryna sell everything they could import
Or export, my young nigga from Shreveport
But I don't show love I give him what he paid for
[Chorus]
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
We cocky, yeah bitch we cocky
Watch, ring, chain you know that we're poppin'
They're jockin' but I swear so cocky
Pockets so fat it makes us more cocky
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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Lord Huron
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Hayalperest
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