"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.
Uh-oh somethin's gonna happen
3rd Storee
Yea
Yo wassup this is RL
Where my boys 3rd Storee
We got to make you dance with Disarray you know what I'm say in
Strait for the clubs
Yab Yum
Mockoman
Uh-oh (Next)
Yo Ready
Common (NE.. Money)
Let's go
3rd Storee
What!?
This is a story so don't you tell out 3rd Storee breaken out on that ??. Yes
Time to have some fun
There's a party around the corner
And you can go if you wanna
Step on by
Itz gonna be live
Itz on tonight, itz on tonight
Chorus:
So the time that you fellin right
Have you heard there's a house party tonight
Your gonna groove to the dressin light
Everything's gonna be alright
Baby is theirs with a reason
This time its slow Tryin Teisan
There's showing off for no reason
Because it's a party
Common
Ladies lookin so sexy
Tellin to move in your face LAN Dondy
They don't know about this here ? Party
It so how that you don't mind
Girl you havein such a good time
Up on the block
Around the corner
About three eighths
On the third Storee
(Chorus)
Ladies and Fellas
Put your hands together
Common Everybody
Put your hands together
3rd Storee say
Put your hands together
Common, common
I wanna hear
Bur, bur, bur
Take it, take it party night and a DJ
Women in a dinner, My Food drink and DJ
Party For the Peace Ay..
Slippen money on the, Tell me where the honey
Bust a Replay
More then 3rd Storee in your City
1999 make me Flow and make you flow you Really
Really, The yab is young
I'm taken territory with the scorpi you broke
And you know my love is always on it
(Chorus)
Babe Ayy?.
Oh, oh
We gonna dance
We gonna dance tonight
Yea ? oh Wow
(lil' Man Free Stylein)
Woo!!
3rd Storee
Yea
Yo wassup this is RL
Where my boys 3rd Storee
We got to make you dance with Disarray you know what I'm say in
Strait for the clubs
Yab Yum
Mockoman
Uh-oh (Next)
Yo Ready
Common (NE.. Money)
Let's go
3rd Storee
What!?
This is a story so don't you tell out 3rd Storee breaken out on that ??. Yes
Time to have some fun
There's a party around the corner
And you can go if you wanna
Step on by
Itz gonna be live
Itz on tonight, itz on tonight
Chorus:
So the time that you fellin right
Have you heard there's a house party tonight
Your gonna groove to the dressin light
Everything's gonna be alright
Baby is theirs with a reason
This time its slow Tryin Teisan
There's showing off for no reason
Because it's a party
Common
Ladies lookin so sexy
Tellin to move in your face LAN Dondy
They don't know about this here ? Party
It so how that you don't mind
Girl you havein such a good time
Up on the block
Around the corner
About three eighths
On the third Storee
(Chorus)
Ladies and Fellas
Put your hands together
Common Everybody
Put your hands together
3rd Storee say
Put your hands together
Common, common
I wanna hear
Bur, bur, bur
Take it, take it party night and a DJ
Women in a dinner, My Food drink and DJ
Party For the Peace Ay..
Slippen money on the, Tell me where the honey
Bust a Replay
More then 3rd Storee in your City
1999 make me Flow and make you flow you Really
Really, The yab is young
I'm taken territory with the scorpi you broke
And you know my love is always on it
(Chorus)
Babe Ayy?.
Oh, oh
We gonna dance
We gonna dance tonight
Yea ? oh Wow
(lil' Man Free Stylein)
Woo!!
Lyrics submitted by sweetkris83
Party Tonight Lyrics as written by Jonathan Buck Bob Robertson
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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