"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.
Raging and swirling,
Getting inside,
I feel like I'm going to break!
Bright sun sinking low,
I never feel afraid to let emotions show.
Well I did.
Now take a look at me,
I had a close brush before your destiny.
Before I end, and you'll be victims of
My stories, tales, lies, and exaggerations.
I'm gonna
When your living life like a show
You gotta
Take a bow to the people you know
I said lie, for me
Lying under a process tree
Oh engrossing in my brain
Feeling like I'm going a little insane.
A little close inside
Feels like I'm going insane!
Red lights
Are sinking low
I grab another beer cuz it's time to go
I feel my head burst, I head out to your car
And I pray to Jesus Christ, but you won't get too far
I say uh, headlights and uh second gear
I run the road of like and skip the things you fear
I said that you might, that you might find a better way
To justify the evil things that you say
Ah, help me please, ah help me please
Because I'm going upon my knees
I said, I said
Going down to my knees
I pray to the Lord up above!
Help me,
I'm falling down
Feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground
Haunting faces, and moving lines
Slumber party for tonight
Pound it hard, your gonna pound it again
But please just do not pump up my friend
Cuz it seems all right, gonna push him around
But I can't be taken for no clown.
Because,
When I am on the ground I cry!
Wowowowowowo, dub style!
Oh, cool and easy
Oh no
Cool and easy
To the sweet reggae music
Oh no
Feels all right to sweet reggae music
Feels all right
Sweet reggae music
Getting inside,
I feel like I'm going to break!
Bright sun sinking low,
I never feel afraid to let emotions show.
Well I did.
Now take a look at me,
I had a close brush before your destiny.
Before I end, and you'll be victims of
My stories, tales, lies, and exaggerations.
I'm gonna
When your living life like a show
You gotta
Take a bow to the people you know
I said lie, for me
Lying under a process tree
Oh engrossing in my brain
Feeling like I'm going a little insane.
A little close inside
Feels like I'm going insane!
Red lights
Are sinking low
I grab another beer cuz it's time to go
I feel my head burst, I head out to your car
And I pray to Jesus Christ, but you won't get too far
I say uh, headlights and uh second gear
I run the road of like and skip the things you fear
I said that you might, that you might find a better way
To justify the evil things that you say
Ah, help me please, ah help me please
Because I'm going upon my knees
I said, I said
Going down to my knees
I pray to the Lord up above!
Help me,
I'm falling down
Feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground
Haunting faces, and moving lines
Slumber party for tonight
Pound it hard, your gonna pound it again
But please just do not pump up my friend
Cuz it seems all right, gonna push him around
But I can't be taken for no clown.
Because,
When I am on the ground I cry!
Wowowowowowo, dub style!
Oh, cool and easy
Oh no
Cool and easy
To the sweet reggae music
Oh no
Feels all right to sweet reggae music
Feels all right
Sweet reggae music
Lyrics submitted by skennedy97
Had a Dat Lyrics as written by Eric John Wilson Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Ah, help me please, ah help me please because I'm going upon my knees
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Help me, I'm falling down feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground "
also ebcause when he says lies adns tuff hes sayign about his addiction. when you have an addiction , youd do anything to get what you need to feel okay.