"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.
Psycho female blowing up the phone line
You need to tighten that screw, it's been loose for a long time
I've been slammed with some bad luck
Soon I'm gonna bring you doom with the buck, buck
And now you duck, duck, goose, I'm letting loose
With the 30-ought freestyle labeled hostile by my profile
Must be all the madness you and all your tactics
Jonesing for my cash got to make them pockets super fat
Hey I'm a humble man kicking out my jams like a tramp
I'm gonna stick it like a stamp to this business
What's with all the business?
I get paid to take the microphone and slay the stage
Stay away from all the bros in my band and all the fans
And all my friends when the cash is coming in
Or I'll be slamming them balls to the wall
With the ink on my flesh to the yes, yes y'all
No 9 to 5, I'll still survive
I keep my engine on that amp like a Chattanooga champ
That's all we need, another bad seed
Planted on this Earth motivated by greed
You wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
Boy, you wanna play that game bitch?
Take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so, you're so stuck you don't even know
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi
Far from suicidal still I get them tendencies
Bringing back the memories that I really miss
When I reminisce, rocking back in the 80s
Live my attitude to do or die
Once I was a maggot but now I'm just Super Fly
Bound for the boundaries, no limit G
Fat ass rhythms driven by my destiny
Your style's in my pocket
Proclaimed to regain that essence
Pressin 'cause I'm hostile labeled by my profile
Indeed I am, I am indeed hostile when it comes to greed
You wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
Boy, you wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so, you're so stuck you don't even know
Aw yeah, ain't nothin' like a greedy bitch
Digging, digging, digging, digging, digging so deep for that green
All I know, all I know, that you must be fucked up in the head
I got a little problem, just one question, biatch
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you gotta be like that?
You wanna be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you gotta be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why the fuck you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why you gotta be like that?
Why the fuck you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why, why, why, why you gotta be?
Why, why, why, you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why you gotta dig in my business you fucking whore?
Stuck on yourself, you are
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
Stuck on yourself, you whore
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so
You're so stuck in your head you don't even know
Live on tape, bitch
Don't fuck with us
You need to tighten that screw, it's been loose for a long time
I've been slammed with some bad luck
Soon I'm gonna bring you doom with the buck, buck
And now you duck, duck, goose, I'm letting loose
With the 30-ought freestyle labeled hostile by my profile
Must be all the madness you and all your tactics
Jonesing for my cash got to make them pockets super fat
Hey I'm a humble man kicking out my jams like a tramp
I'm gonna stick it like a stamp to this business
What's with all the business?
I get paid to take the microphone and slay the stage
Stay away from all the bros in my band and all the fans
And all my friends when the cash is coming in
Or I'll be slamming them balls to the wall
With the ink on my flesh to the yes, yes y'all
No 9 to 5, I'll still survive
I keep my engine on that amp like a Chattanooga champ
That's all we need, another bad seed
Planted on this Earth motivated by greed
You wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
Boy, you wanna play that game bitch?
Take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so, you're so stuck you don't even know
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi
Far from suicidal still I get them tendencies
Bringing back the memories that I really miss
When I reminisce, rocking back in the 80s
Live my attitude to do or die
Once I was a maggot but now I'm just Super Fly
Bound for the boundaries, no limit G
Fat ass rhythms driven by my destiny
Your style's in my pocket
Proclaimed to regain that essence
Pressin 'cause I'm hostile labeled by my profile
Indeed I am, I am indeed hostile when it comes to greed
You wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
Boy, you wanna play that game bitch?
You take a dash for my cash it's your ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so, you're so stuck you don't even know
Aw yeah, ain't nothin' like a greedy bitch
Digging, digging, digging, digging, digging so deep for that green
All I know, all I know, that you must be fucked up in the head
I got a little problem, just one question, biatch
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you gotta be like that?
You wanna be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why, why you gotta be like that?
Why, why you wanna be like that?
Why the fuck you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why you gotta be like that?
Why the fuck you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why, why, why, why you gotta be?
Why, why, why, you wanna be like that?
Why, why, why you gotta dig in my business you fucking whore?
Stuck on yourself, you are
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
Stuck on yourself, you whore
You take a dash for my cash it's that ass that I'm blasting
You're bad luck, you're so, stuck
Stuck, deep down in that hole again
Stuck, got your brain on my green again
Stuck, you're so, you're so
You're so stuck in your head you don't even know
Live on tape, bitch
Don't fuck with us
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Stuck Lyrics as written by Samuel Robert Rivers John Everett Otto
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"one of the best lyrics ever written", too bad it was written by suicidal tendencies, minus the "far from suicidal part". this speaks of institutionalized by suicidal tendencies. check it out, it's a good song, depending on what version you get.
I thought I was the only one that noticed the Suicidal Tendencies reference. What a great song, "Institutionalized." Any credit/acknowledgment given to them? I don't think so... This song ("Stuck") is ok; I couldn't stop laughing the first few times I heard it when he said "Stuck on yourself, you are" near the end and sounded just like Yoda with a sore throat. And yeah, he's with a girl who just wants him for his money in this. Not complicated.
MOSH!!!!!
this song reminds me of my bro.he always wants money to do things like buy clothes and he's goin out and buyin $80 T-shirts and then the next day he has to sell them becuz he has no food. and he tries to get ahead but he is just too lazy to get off his ass and do some work. so i think its sumthin like that!
good moshing song. this was written back in limp's good days.
"All I wanted was a Pepsi just one Pepsi far from suicidal.." one of the best lyrics ever written. This song kicks ass. This song is about a person that uses you for your $$..
For the band's meaning, limpsite.com/meaning1.shtml
too bad they suck now. this is when they were a rock band