"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.
We bust the sound
The kids all gather round
And what's comin' from their radios
They all turn down
The creativeness
We are scientists
Move 'em with soul
Move 'em with this
When the bass kicks
We get intimate
With the music and the people
Yeah they're into it
Takin' off cruisin' through the air
The sound is aerodynamic
Let me take you there
I am a
Cool and mellow man
Always got a plan
Copin' out problems every time I can
I'd like to be known as a great
Communicator
If you got beef don't save it for later
I battle evil weekly monthly yearly
But every step I take the devil stays near me
Otherwise maintain on the globe
Just another space trippin' vato
Massive yang and yin on this earth
We spin
Sometimes I gotta center find out who I am
I chill out I let in the wind
I gotta feel the pulse of the planet on my skin
I got news for ya it ain't nothin' nice
We all got demons we all gotta vice
The struggle never ends
To keep it in check
But I never stop trying
To make the trek whadup
Which one is it who ya gonna believe
Undivided in my material being
Undivided life
You can't fade me
Desperate the cling I make to positivity
Stay gettin' it on til the doubt is gone
If you could be dissuaded you were dead all along
Like what's up now you can't fade me
Still in that same old trade of positivity
The kids all gather round
And what's comin' from their radios
They all turn down
The creativeness
We are scientists
Move 'em with soul
Move 'em with this
When the bass kicks
We get intimate
With the music and the people
Yeah they're into it
Takin' off cruisin' through the air
The sound is aerodynamic
Let me take you there
I am a
Cool and mellow man
Always got a plan
Copin' out problems every time I can
I'd like to be known as a great
Communicator
If you got beef don't save it for later
I battle evil weekly monthly yearly
But every step I take the devil stays near me
Otherwise maintain on the globe
Just another space trippin' vato
Massive yang and yin on this earth
We spin
Sometimes I gotta center find out who I am
I chill out I let in the wind
I gotta feel the pulse of the planet on my skin
I got news for ya it ain't nothin' nice
We all got demons we all gotta vice
The struggle never ends
To keep it in check
But I never stop trying
To make the trek whadup
Which one is it who ya gonna believe
Undivided in my material being
Undivided life
You can't fade me
Desperate the cling I make to positivity
Stay gettin' it on til the doubt is gone
If you could be dissuaded you were dead all along
Like what's up now you can't fade me
Still in that same old trade of positivity
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
Can't Fade Me Lyrics as written by Nicholas Hexum Douglas Martinez
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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