"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.
All this fuss a lil more (more morcheeba)
Props from here to singapore (morcheeba)
All this fuss a lil more (morcheeba)
Props from here to singapore (morcheeba)
Yo'
Pull up in a all black 528 (errrr)
Fly new paint
Drive threw states
While you a'int
Can't get props 'cause your styles to fake
Try new thing
Rap like me
Dance like d
One more chance like biggy
Easy coast rock
Beats don't stop
Niggaz fall off mad teams go pop
Swing like spiderman and wall creaper
Pace won rocks them all the tall creature
You don't like me
I ain't feelin y'all neither
Ya'll need to roll your blunts with morcheeba
This is how the east coast rocks
This is how pace won rocks
This is how the east coast rocks
This is how mj rocks
This is how pace won rocks
Props from here to singapore (morcheeba)
All this fuss a lil more (morcheeba)
Props from here to singapore (morcheeba)
Yo'
Pull up in a all black 528 (errrr)
Fly new paint
Drive threw states
While you a'int
Can't get props 'cause your styles to fake
Try new thing
Rap like me
Dance like d
One more chance like biggy
Easy coast rock
Beats don't stop
Niggaz fall off mad teams go pop
Swing like spiderman and wall creaper
Pace won rocks them all the tall creature
You don't like me
I ain't feelin y'all neither
Ya'll need to roll your blunts with morcheeba
This is how the east coast rocks
This is how pace won rocks
This is how the east coast rocks
This is how mj rocks
This is how pace won rocks
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Charango Lyrics as written by Ross Godfrey Paul Godfrey
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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