"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.
(Kurupt)
Smash
Gangsta shit, gangsta shit
Yeah y'all wont respect that gangsta shit, nigga
California's Finest under the sun
Yeah, who want see me on the 101, bustas?
Shut up punk
Who's that makin' that Gansta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, bitch (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
Bitch Nigga, touch me, nigga, and I touch you back
Rush me nigga and I'll pop off this
And push you back, chest hit back
Shells up and the West hit back
So bitch nigga just get back
Bitch boy just don't know how to act
I'ma have to clap like an applause and make him sit back
'Cause bitch boy just wont get back
Focus like scanners, file load to memo randoms
I'ma leave ya numb, peel like bananas
Who's that kickin that gangsta shit? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a shit (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
Deal me in and I'll deal you out
Liable to put something in your mouth
Make my day and I'll make ya year
Just when you appear
You make a U-turn, and then disappear
I guess it's clear
No bitch ass bitch made muthafuckas allowed in here
Give me a pistol I'll give you a cannon
Put it to your face and then start rammin
I heard gangsta rap music, they're gonna start bannin
I'm planning, to make gangsta rap music in Canada
To shift the parameter
Quake the equator, Young Gotti muthafucka
Eminent danger, bitch nigga
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Tri)
My super duper, coupe maneuver
Some think I'm too cute to shoot the Rugger
[Roscoe] (2x)
Now how many hoes want nut all over they face? (Face)
Throw your hands all over the place
How many niggas all over they case?
Throw your hands all over the place
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
I can't smoke no more weed in the red form
I need to concentrate in the pill form
Call the homies, start off the swarm
Show Â'em it's on
First one to bomb, Southern Vietnam
California Cong
Studied game like the Muslims studied a Koran
Back On The Smash, Kurupt and Daz
Two to the spleen, Kurupt and Mike Dean
The hoes gotta go, Kurupt and Roscoe
Blastin Roscoe into Young Assassins
The methods of a ridaz, Snoop and Tha Eastidaz
Two to the head, yeah, what up Fred?
With so many hoes givin' all the head
Can't you see Nate and Warren G?
These the muthafuckas that be rollin' with me
We control whole, patrol the streets, nigga
Inquiries of vocabulary you need
But we ignore bitches when they tryin' to speak
Talking Â'bout...
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
Smash
Gangsta shit, gangsta shit
Yeah y'all wont respect that gangsta shit, nigga
California's Finest under the sun
Yeah, who want see me on the 101, bustas?
Shut up punk
Who's that makin' that Gansta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, bitch (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
Bitch Nigga, touch me, nigga, and I touch you back
Rush me nigga and I'll pop off this
And push you back, chest hit back
Shells up and the West hit back
So bitch nigga just get back
Bitch boy just don't know how to act
I'ma have to clap like an applause and make him sit back
'Cause bitch boy just wont get back
Focus like scanners, file load to memo randoms
I'ma leave ya numb, peel like bananas
Who's that kickin that gangsta shit? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a shit (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
Deal me in and I'll deal you out
Liable to put something in your mouth
Make my day and I'll make ya year
Just when you appear
You make a U-turn, and then disappear
I guess it's clear
No bitch ass bitch made muthafuckas allowed in here
Give me a pistol I'll give you a cannon
Put it to your face and then start rammin
I heard gangsta rap music, they're gonna start bannin
I'm planning, to make gangsta rap music in Canada
To shift the parameter
Quake the equator, Young Gotti muthafucka
Eminent danger, bitch nigga
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Tri)
My super duper, coupe maneuver
Some think I'm too cute to shoot the Rugger
[Roscoe] (2x)
Now how many hoes want nut all over they face? (Face)
Throw your hands all over the place
How many niggas all over they case?
Throw your hands all over the place
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
(Kurupt)
I can't smoke no more weed in the red form
I need to concentrate in the pill form
Call the homies, start off the swarm
Show Â'em it's on
First one to bomb, Southern Vietnam
California Cong
Studied game like the Muslims studied a Koran
Back On The Smash, Kurupt and Daz
Two to the spleen, Kurupt and Mike Dean
The hoes gotta go, Kurupt and Roscoe
Blastin Roscoe into Young Assassins
The methods of a ridaz, Snoop and Tha Eastidaz
Two to the head, yeah, what up Fred?
With so many hoes givin' all the head
Can't you see Nate and Warren G?
These the muthafuckas that be rollin' with me
We control whole, patrol the streets, nigga
Inquiries of vocabulary you need
But we ignore bitches when they tryin' to speak
Talking Â'bout...
Who's that makin' that Gangsta Noize? (That's Kurupt)
Dippin through just not giving a fuck, nigga (That's Kurupt)
Gangsta's in this muthafucka givin' it up (That's Kurupt)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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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"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
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