"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.
Now I know, fools get their own when they chit chat
Haven't heard yet, but you can bet I'm not with that
With that talk, with the digi-walk
I stalk a bird, you heard, absurd word to the fact
I'm a cat nippin', sippin' on the flask
Passin' it, talking shit, but only if your ass
In front of me â??cause you could run from me, but
In the end, revenge send ends to the defendant
I can't get caught in the spiral 'cause every bit of energy
It goes to my survival, out my way
I'm a flicka-flacka blotter, ya try to find a weakness
But the shit keeps gettin' harder
[Chorus:]
Fourth of July, with Lucy in Sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen, I'd do anything
Shit like that now scares me, but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
Oh, I've been insane
And I won't ever be the same
Cause we flow we must be fly
First to flow Nickel my brother, so wise
And then I rise
Here's an ill kid, pimpin' 'cause he is so slick
Steps from darkness, his body electric
A drone buzzes the air, a cracklin' tone
Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
Death defyin' like Knievel, he feeble
Words that will wobble, awkward and evil
'cause he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds A marvel pow, how you like me now?
I've returned, the kiss of death, the last Damien
From the abyss, fresh eternal alien
Now famished from pathless way, I may do damage
To the whack MC's, I know you can't stand this
Right about now, get down, I'm the annihilator Rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator
[Chorus]
Yeah
Haven't heard yet, but you can bet I'm not with that
With that talk, with the digi-walk
I stalk a bird, you heard, absurd word to the fact
I'm a cat nippin', sippin' on the flask
Passin' it, talking shit, but only if your ass
In front of me â??cause you could run from me, but
In the end, revenge send ends to the defendant
I can't get caught in the spiral 'cause every bit of energy
It goes to my survival, out my way
I'm a flicka-flacka blotter, ya try to find a weakness
But the shit keeps gettin' harder
[Chorus:]
Fourth of July, with Lucy in Sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen, I'd do anything
Shit like that now scares me, but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
Oh, I've been insane
And I won't ever be the same
Cause we flow we must be fly
First to flow Nickel my brother, so wise
And then I rise
Here's an ill kid, pimpin' 'cause he is so slick
Steps from darkness, his body electric
A drone buzzes the air, a cracklin' tone
Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
Death defyin' like Knievel, he feeble
Words that will wobble, awkward and evil
'cause he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds A marvel pow, how you like me now?
I've returned, the kiss of death, the last Damien
From the abyss, fresh eternal alien
Now famished from pathless way, I may do damage
To the whack MC's, I know you can't stand this
Right about now, get down, I'm the annihilator Rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator
[Chorus]
Yeah
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Homebrew Lyrics as written by Chad Ronald Sexton Aaron Charles Wills
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