"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.
[T-Pain]
Girl I See you changed, (changed)
You think it's effectin' me. (what girl)
But girl it's not.
Girl I peep your brain. (brain)
Think you're so smart. (so smart)
But girl you're not.
And it's a shame, (damn)
Ask me, (ask me)
Ask if I care.
And you lookin' so good. (damn)
Take you back, (take u back)
I wouldn't dare.
Because and girl.
[Chorus: x2]
I rather get it while the goin's good,
Baby you know I would.
Do you better if you treat me the same.
I rather get it while it's hot,
Than steal it while it's not.
Oh girl, your not the same anymore,
Your not the same.
[Akon]
Girl you know my skees, (skees)
Always in the streets. (Streets)
Steady packin' heat, (heat)
Case some nigga wanna test me. (me)
You made me slow it down. (down)
Especially when you come round. (round)
How the hell it go down,
Got me actin' like a clown. (clown)
It ain't funny girl,
Your not the same no more,
Spendin too much money,
And the sex ain't the same no more.
Girl you had me fooled.
(Up and shacked up) oh
(Now you washed up) oh
Hate it but it's jacked up.
As convicts we gotta.
[Chorus: x2]
[T-Pain]
Then finally, (ring)
I get a call, (a call)
A call from you.
Baby why don't we. (we)
Just quit it out. (quit it out)
Oh girl we're through, oh
Don't call my phone now, (now)
Bet you think, (you think)
I wanna speak.
Listen to this tone now, (oh)
I gotta go, (gotta go)
Go back to sleep.
Oh girl
[Chorus: x2]
Your not the same anymore, your not the same.
Girl you not the same anymore and you know.
Your not the same anymore, your not the same.
Girl you not the same anymore and you know.
Girl I See you changed, (changed)
You think it's effectin' me. (what girl)
But girl it's not.
Girl I peep your brain. (brain)
Think you're so smart. (so smart)
But girl you're not.
And it's a shame, (damn)
Ask me, (ask me)
Ask if I care.
And you lookin' so good. (damn)
Take you back, (take u back)
I wouldn't dare.
Because and girl.
[Chorus: x2]
I rather get it while the goin's good,
Baby you know I would.
Do you better if you treat me the same.
I rather get it while it's hot,
Than steal it while it's not.
Oh girl, your not the same anymore,
Your not the same.
[Akon]
Girl you know my skees, (skees)
Always in the streets. (Streets)
Steady packin' heat, (heat)
Case some nigga wanna test me. (me)
You made me slow it down. (down)
Especially when you come round. (round)
How the hell it go down,
Got me actin' like a clown. (clown)
It ain't funny girl,
Your not the same no more,
Spendin too much money,
And the sex ain't the same no more.
Girl you had me fooled.
(Up and shacked up) oh
(Now you washed up) oh
Hate it but it's jacked up.
As convicts we gotta.
[Chorus: x2]
[T-Pain]
Then finally, (ring)
I get a call, (a call)
A call from you.
Baby why don't we. (we)
Just quit it out. (quit it out)
Oh girl we're through, oh
Don't call my phone now, (now)
Bet you think, (you think)
I wanna speak.
Listen to this tone now, (oh)
I gotta go, (gotta go)
Go back to sleep.
Oh girl
[Chorus: x2]
Your not the same anymore, your not the same.
Girl you not the same anymore and you know.
Your not the same anymore, your not the same.
Girl you not the same anymore and you know.
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Ur Not the Same Lyrics as written by Faheem Najm Aliaune Thiam
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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