"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.
[B-Real]
You can't hide from the man with the master plan
Hunting for your head "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
Hey yo, where you at baby keep your head low, damn
Got you on the camcorder in the black minivan
You crossed line, time for the light to blind
You can run but I never be far behind
You never know when it's gonna come, paranoid
'cause the mentality is seek and destroy
Better look around before you come out your door
'cause shit catches up but you don't want no more
Only time will provide the right sign for real
You might die 'cause you hesitate to find the steel
[Chorus: x2]
You better never let me catch you alone!
Bring it on, bring it on! Bring it on, bring it on!
You might die in the Valley of Chrome!
Keeping on, keeping on, keep, keep, keeping on!
[Sen-Dog]
Listen up motherfuckers I got shit on my mind
The spotlight's on me and it's time to shine
I smack any brat that be jumping outta line
I smoke any fool try to diss on my rhyme
I get y'all, wearing no can't protect y'all
Wash your brain and have you infiltrate the
Same bunch of suckers that be trying to hate me
Want to take me out so they can try and replace me
Fuck what ya heard, have ya seen lately
The size of my clan is improving greatly
No one will hold 'em back, bringing the big heater
Watch a nigga run scared, faster than a cheetah
Speed of light, move faster than sound
But I'm still on they back and I'm gaining much ground
[Chorus: x2]
[B-Real]
No matter what you seen, we still smoking the green
Represent for all the people still a part of the scheme
Player haters, imitators want to roll with the team
But they fade away, hate away, all for the cream
They want to instigate ? to get a losse forget my stake?
Take advantage of the rilla, rob killa who scrapes
Cuban motherfuckers who don't know who I am
Better step aside suckers watch the heater expand
Get outta hand, see the light, you and your clan
Better scram outta here before you get slammed
I stand strong, keeping on, when I'm rolling alone
But you sorry bitches hideaway, place unknown
[Chorus: x4]
You can't hide from the man with the master plan
Hunting for your head "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
Hey yo, where you at baby keep your head low, damn
Got you on the camcorder in the black minivan
You crossed line, time for the light to blind
You can run but I never be far behind
You never know when it's gonna come, paranoid
'cause the mentality is seek and destroy
Better look around before you come out your door
'cause shit catches up but you don't want no more
Only time will provide the right sign for real
You might die 'cause you hesitate to find the steel
[Chorus: x2]
You better never let me catch you alone!
Bring it on, bring it on! Bring it on, bring it on!
You might die in the Valley of Chrome!
Keeping on, keeping on, keep, keep, keeping on!
[Sen-Dog]
Listen up motherfuckers I got shit on my mind
The spotlight's on me and it's time to shine
I smack any brat that be jumping outta line
I smoke any fool try to diss on my rhyme
I get y'all, wearing no can't protect y'all
Wash your brain and have you infiltrate the
Same bunch of suckers that be trying to hate me
Want to take me out so they can try and replace me
Fuck what ya heard, have ya seen lately
The size of my clan is improving greatly
No one will hold 'em back, bringing the big heater
Watch a nigga run scared, faster than a cheetah
Speed of light, move faster than sound
But I'm still on they back and I'm gaining much ground
[Chorus: x2]
[B-Real]
No matter what you seen, we still smoking the green
Represent for all the people still a part of the scheme
Player haters, imitators want to roll with the team
But they fade away, hate away, all for the cream
They want to instigate ? to get a losse forget my stake?
Take advantage of the rilla, rob killa who scrapes
Cuban motherfuckers who don't know who I am
Better step aside suckers watch the heater expand
Get outta hand, see the light, you and your clan
Better scram outta here before you get slammed
I stand strong, keeping on, when I'm rolling alone
But you sorry bitches hideaway, place unknown
[Chorus: x4]
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
Valley of Chrome Lyrics as written by Louis M. Freeze Larry Muggerud
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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