"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
Been a long time coming
Yeah
Mhm
It's Swift
Back up in this bitch man
Yeah
Yeah
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (D-Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
I know what they want
Something they can't have
We human (human)
What you runnin from
Like you chasin sum
Confusing (so confusing)
Hidden messages
Indirectly hit
Amusing (Haha)
Think about that shit (Psh)
Grab a pen n write some music (Yeah)
Nah they can't be on the shit that I be on (What?)
Don't talk to me because you is a peon (What?)
Hit that bitch when once n I tell her to be gone (Be gone)
Why she want me she be leavin the streets on
Read
She jus wan lay in her bed
Lay back her head after taking her meds (She do)
Damn that's how she deal with her stress
Yeah (Well)
Difference between us shit there isn't much (Except)
She eat the dick up for breakfast n lunch
N after she clean up she rollin the runtz
Nah She ain leavin she packin my blunts (Oo)
Damn
I toke it she start to blush
Yeah
But to me nah it ain much
She jus want a piece a me ain talkin crust (Let's go)
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Big diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Damn I think you good
And you from the hood
Ruthless (Damn)
We be smokin woods
Know you wish you could
Do it
Don't get misunderstood
Cause I'm that type who would
Use it (Oh yeah)
I be in the Stu goin Stu yeah I'm stupid
She wanna get cool cause I'm cooler than some cool whip (Mhm)
Take her to the Ruth Chris (Mhm)
Show her how I'm movin (Mhm)
Do it on my own ain worried bout ya 2 cent
Get it cause I'm grown I'm goin gold keep ya distance
I be in city with my mind on high
And my seat down low
Music sound right every place I go
Take a lil ride to every place I know
Last time I seen you you was in cocoa
Now why you in my city ridin inna tahoe (Huh)
Used to be shy now you in front row (Huh)
She look me in the eye n then I go
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds
Been a long time coming
Yeah
Mhm
It's Swift
Back up in this bitch man
Yeah
Yeah
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (D-Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
I know what they want
Something they can't have
We human (human)
What you runnin from
Like you chasin sum
Confusing (so confusing)
Hidden messages
Indirectly hit
Amusing (Haha)
Think about that shit (Psh)
Grab a pen n write some music (Yeah)
Nah they can't be on the shit that I be on (What?)
Don't talk to me because you is a peon (What?)
Hit that bitch when once n I tell her to be gone (Be gone)
Why she want me she be leavin the streets on
Read
She jus wan lay in her bed
Lay back her head after taking her meds (She do)
Damn that's how she deal with her stress
Yeah (Well)
Difference between us shit there isn't much (Except)
She eat the dick up for breakfast n lunch
N after she clean up she rollin the runtz
Nah She ain leavin she packin my blunts (Oo)
Damn
I toke it she start to blush
Yeah
But to me nah it ain much
She jus want a piece a me ain talkin crust (Let's go)
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds (Big diamonds)
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Damn I think you good
And you from the hood
Ruthless (Damn)
We be smokin woods
Know you wish you could
Do it
Don't get misunderstood
Cause I'm that type who would
Use it (Oh yeah)
I be in the Stu goin Stu yeah I'm stupid
She wanna get cool cause I'm cooler than some cool whip (Mhm)
Take her to the Ruth Chris (Mhm)
Show her how I'm movin (Mhm)
Do it on my own ain worried bout ya 2 cent
Get it cause I'm grown I'm goin gold keep ya distance
I be in city with my mind on high
And my seat down low
Music sound right every place I go
Take a lil ride to every place I know
Last time I seen you you was in cocoa
Now why you in my city ridin inna tahoe (Huh)
Used to be shy now you in front row (Huh)
She look me in the eye n then I go
Look inside my mind tell me what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes tell me what you find
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Don't jus peak inside gotta analyze
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Ain gotta give me time I know what you like
Diamonds (Diamonds)
Look inside my mind tell I'll you what you find
Diamonds
Look inside my eyes I'll tell you what you find
Diamonds
Don't jus peak inside you gotta analyze
Diamonds
Ain gotta give me time cause I know what you like
Diamonds
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