"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.
Aye, sadness been killing my mood
She say I'm that nigga she say I'm that dude
And you know that I like when my checks come in two
And you know that my heart made of stone
There ain't nothing to cure unless I be counting the blues
I count up the racks and I go buy some shoes
Just re up on the pack you know weight gotta move
I tell shawty relax you know I cannot lose
Ou dashin', you know I'm speeding right past 'em
Used to be robbin' but now I just wish with a smith so I feel like Aladdin
Wrist game on Dio, the world frozen all in my patek
Heart made of steel so I'm laughing at what you think tragic
Neck on ice, I am alaskan
Looking for Jasmine, pt kicking down the doors who's asking,
Head game so bussing, she sucking now I need an aspirin
Come get your homie, rip the caption
Pt the gang, know I'm the captain
And the choppa make him do the toosie
Thought he was pro but he more like a newbie
I'm addicted to green and addicted to blue cheese
Get it then blow it on diamonds and rubies
Get it I count it while in the jacuzzi
Making tunes off of shrooms, yeah my life getting looney
Chamber of secrets my life is a movie
Feel like Kenpachi, wanna be the hero we pull up with ceros
We getting em' right in the lobby
We doing em' sloppy
That's nagasaki, blowin up they thought they knew my body
On the field we playing hockey, and that metal on me like a hot key
She say I'm that nigga she say I'm that dude
And you know that I like when my checks come in two
And you know that my heart made of stone
There ain't nothing to cure unless I be counting the blues
I count up the racks and I go buy some shoes
Just re up on the pack you know weight gotta move
I tell shawty relax you know I cannot lose
Ou dashin', you know I'm speeding right past 'em
Used to be robbin' but now I just wish with a smith so I feel like Aladdin
Wrist game on Dio, the world frozen all in my patek
Heart made of steel so I'm laughing at what you think tragic
Neck on ice, I am alaskan
Looking for Jasmine, pt kicking down the doors who's asking,
Head game so bussing, she sucking now I need an aspirin
Come get your homie, rip the caption
Pt the gang, know I'm the captain
And the choppa make him do the toosie
Thought he was pro but he more like a newbie
I'm addicted to green and addicted to blue cheese
Get it then blow it on diamonds and rubies
Get it I count it while in the jacuzzi
Making tunes off of shrooms, yeah my life getting looney
Chamber of secrets my life is a movie
Feel like Kenpachi, wanna be the hero we pull up with ceros
We getting em' right in the lobby
We doing em' sloppy
That's nagasaki, blowin up they thought they knew my body
On the field we playing hockey, and that metal on me like a hot key
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