"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.
Yeah Yeah
Come into your house make love to your spouse
Fuck her in the mouth then I'm out what
These type of things happens all the time
You trying to get yours but I'm a kill for mine
Nigga Nigga Nigga A nigga please
I strap on a jimmy
'Cause I don't want a disease
Baby likes it when I come inside
I come into your house and take your daughter for a ride
Now how you gonna slow me down
Show me how you heard about my theory now
Feel me now busta you dealing with the microphone crusher
Amateurs fold under pressure
Yeah roll up that blunt now
Lay yo guns down who be the one now
Out of town before sun down O.K. Corral
You gonna slow me down bitch show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down bitch show me how
Whooooa
Where my dogs at
Where my girls at
Where da whiskey at me let me hit some of that
I'm a drink my wine and smoke my weed
I'm a fuck that honey from behind
This is until she screams
Oh yeah Hell yeah
There's a party over here party over there
Rebels throw you fist in the air
Bitches throw your tits in the air
[Chorus: x 2]
He'd p.e. can't you see
Sometimes your shit just hypnotize me
And I just love your freaky ways
M.C. my love is here to stay
M.C.O.D. oh can't you see
Sometimes you shit just hypnotize me
And I just love your freaky ways
he'd p.e. my love is here to stay
You heard about that shit that we do
You heard about the sex and the drugs and the violence
It's all true
I heard about your puss ass crew
Cross over corporate take down take two
Huh you running out of time now
You all mine now lights out
You fat muthafucker Watch me shine now
You fat ass
You want to show me down show me how
You heard about my theory now fear me now
'Cause ain't no way that the shit can miss
See all my dogs fuck it up in the pits
See all my ladies shake they hips and wiggle they tits
Shit my niggas might bounce to this
'Cause everybody talking about that new sound crazy
But it's still hip hop to me
What What
[Chorus]
[3rd Verse]
Let me have your muthafucking undivided attention
It's about time I set the muthafuckin record straight
Now it's obvious who smokes the most and the best weed
And it's obvious who got the most and the finest hoes
And it's obvious who's gonna get the props in 2000 One!
2012 come watch me
Shine in the new millennium yeah
I think your fine baby
Nah you ain't my baby
You think I'm crazy Nah Nah no
Muthafucking way Fuck tomorrow fuck today
Fuck yo scandalous ass and yo scandalous ways
Fuck you momma and the ho she raised - What!
[Chorus]
Worldwide
Come into your house make love to your spouse
Fuck her in the mouth then I'm out what
These type of things happens all the time
You trying to get yours but I'm a kill for mine
Nigga Nigga Nigga A nigga please
I strap on a jimmy
'Cause I don't want a disease
Baby likes it when I come inside
I come into your house and take your daughter for a ride
Now how you gonna slow me down
Show me how you heard about my theory now
Feel me now busta you dealing with the microphone crusher
Amateurs fold under pressure
Yeah roll up that blunt now
Lay yo guns down who be the one now
Out of town before sun down O.K. Corral
You gonna slow me down bitch show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down show me how
You gonna slow me down bitch show me how
Whooooa
Where my dogs at
Where my girls at
Where da whiskey at me let me hit some of that
I'm a drink my wine and smoke my weed
I'm a fuck that honey from behind
This is until she screams
Oh yeah Hell yeah
There's a party over here party over there
Rebels throw you fist in the air
Bitches throw your tits in the air
[Chorus: x 2]
He'd p.e. can't you see
Sometimes your shit just hypnotize me
And I just love your freaky ways
M.C. my love is here to stay
M.C.O.D. oh can't you see
Sometimes you shit just hypnotize me
And I just love your freaky ways
he'd p.e. my love is here to stay
You heard about that shit that we do
You heard about the sex and the drugs and the violence
It's all true
I heard about your puss ass crew
Cross over corporate take down take two
Huh you running out of time now
You all mine now lights out
You fat muthafucker Watch me shine now
You fat ass
You want to show me down show me how
You heard about my theory now fear me now
'Cause ain't no way that the shit can miss
See all my dogs fuck it up in the pits
See all my ladies shake they hips and wiggle they tits
Shit my niggas might bounce to this
'Cause everybody talking about that new sound crazy
But it's still hip hop to me
What What
[Chorus]
[3rd Verse]
Let me have your muthafucking undivided attention
It's about time I set the muthafuckin record straight
Now it's obvious who smokes the most and the best weed
And it's obvious who got the most and the finest hoes
And it's obvious who's gonna get the props in 2000 One!
2012 come watch me
Shine in the new millennium yeah
I think your fine baby
Nah you ain't my baby
You think I'm crazy Nah Nah no
Muthafucking way Fuck tomorrow fuck today
Fuck yo scandalous ass and yo scandalous ways
Fuck you momma and the ho she raised - What!
[Chorus]
Worldwide
Lyrics submitted by WrathofCarnage
Crazy Legs Lyrics as written by Ben Vaught Andre Romell Young
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Like king said...this song makes fun of biggie. They made this song because Hed PE thinks of themselves of rock/hip hop and biggie said that Hed PE isnt hip hop.
Hes makin fun of biggie when he says "fat ass" and "Cuz everybody talkin about this new sound is crazy but its still hip hop to me"
Fuck biggie...Hed PE ROCKS!