"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.
They make me sick
I know I feel you
That's why we guys stick together
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta getta grip
And it's drivin' me crazy
Baby, don't you quit
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
He was doing 8-0 on the freeway
In the 6 double O, bumpin' Isley
He was gettin' kinda close, kinda touchy
'Cause he had a little too much Hennessey
He told me that he wanna go home
With me up on the hill to my condo
Told me he would keep it all on the low-low
But I told him, "Boo, I don't really know though"
He got closer to me, it started gettin' deep
He had me in a zone
When he started to show me things I never saw before
Baby was smooth but I knew it was game
Hell-of-a-cool but you men are the same
The way he licked his lips and touched my hips
I knew that he was slick
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
In the 6 now, so hot (you make me sick)
Had to pull all the windows down
Isley and I'm thinkin' 'bout them sheets now
Wonderin', "Should I really take it there now?"
He told me he would make it worth it (worth it)
Again, how many times have I heard this (how many times?)
Kinda funny, but I wasn't even nervous
Well his slick-ass lines were kinda working
I felt my knees get weak, his body was callin' me
Just couldn't take the heat
Anyway it was two or three, I had to get off the streets
Baby, was cool but I knew it was game
Said, he was too schooled to be screamin' my name
Even though we made the best of it
I still told him this
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it (so sick)
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
Yeah
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it (can't get)
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick (make me sick)
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (I hate it)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
(You make me sick)
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit
Can't, no no, no no no
Ooh, you make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it (I want you and I'm hatin' it)
I know I feel you
That's why we guys stick together
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta getta grip
And it's drivin' me crazy
Baby, don't you quit
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
He was doing 8-0 on the freeway
In the 6 double O, bumpin' Isley
He was gettin' kinda close, kinda touchy
'Cause he had a little too much Hennessey
He told me that he wanna go home
With me up on the hill to my condo
Told me he would keep it all on the low-low
But I told him, "Boo, I don't really know though"
He got closer to me, it started gettin' deep
He had me in a zone
When he started to show me things I never saw before
Baby was smooth but I knew it was game
Hell-of-a-cool but you men are the same
The way he licked his lips and touched my hips
I knew that he was slick
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
In the 6 now, so hot (you make me sick)
Had to pull all the windows down
Isley and I'm thinkin' 'bout them sheets now
Wonderin', "Should I really take it there now?"
He told me he would make it worth it (worth it)
Again, how many times have I heard this (how many times?)
Kinda funny, but I wasn't even nervous
Well his slick-ass lines were kinda working
I felt my knees get weak, his body was callin' me
Just couldn't take the heat
Anyway it was two or three, I had to get off the streets
Baby, was cool but I knew it was game
Said, he was too schooled to be screamin' my name
Even though we made the best of it
I still told him this
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it (so sick)
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
Yeah
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (crazy)
Can't get enough of it (can't get)
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Got me lit like a candlestick (make me sick)
Get too hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit (I hate it)
Can't get enough of it
You got me goin' again
Baby, you got me goin' again
You make me sick
(You make me sick)
I want you and I'm hatin' it
Hot when you touch the tip
I'm feelin' it, I gotta get a grip
And it's drivin' me crazy, baby, don't you quit
Can't, no no, no no no
Ooh, you make me sick
I want you and I'm hatin' it (I want you and I'm hatin' it)
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