"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.
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday I get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Kottonmouth Kings got them dope tracks
1605 yes they got my back
I'm buckin' your boots 'cause ya smoke crack
I get the munchies and i eat a greasy bigmac
Find me smoked out, ain't unlikely
That's why my homies call me D the L-O-see
You'll catch me at a party deep in O.C.
Representin that punk rawk stylee
When I'm on the mic i make the crowd move
To escape reality i bust my own groove
Ladies on the floor say your so smooth
I wink my eyes, and replied
They says real cool
Life ladies don't understand me
Said to call my sign to be an anarchy
Skate in my hand 'cause I'm like that
i bust to surf and off the curb 'cause I'm real phat
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
I'm moanin on and on kickin lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Well, I'm D-Loco a fly shit
Smoke bud with the king click
Don't trip, but addicted
Full flown, can't stop smokin' that homegrown
I gotta phat blown acre out in Riverside
Hallbrook locals the Kings reside
E-Loc, G-Mac, Big Hoss in the pen, BJ, Guido, and my boy Efrin
I go coocoo for coco, chocolate thai, smoke bud till i die
You wonder why, stay high like a black fly
Then i stop, buzzin' like a busy is ah ba ba ba
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday i get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Saint Vicious pay attention let me educate
I put a tapper in the gut of this legislate
Push the tap, and i watch the sewer drain out
Lies lies lies, what i've been talkin about
Well not old school like i use to (used to)
Kottonmouth Kings just broke through (move fool)
Psychedelic hip hop punk rock shit
So back the hell up and get smacked in your lip
Saint don't quit I'm from the old school
5 block didn't have a pipe to skate to
Lawns wet, rail slide, real smooth
No skate mall but it was still cool
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 420, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday i get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
This has been the Kottonmouth Kings
Transmitted live from Planet Budtron
With fellow be at the helm
High at the Oregon House
Bobby be , Saint Vicious, D-Loc and I'm Daddy X
Saying work hard, play hard, and stay hard
Oh and a one more thing, check please!
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday I get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Kottonmouth Kings got them dope tracks
1605 yes they got my back
I'm buckin' your boots 'cause ya smoke crack
I get the munchies and i eat a greasy bigmac
Find me smoked out, ain't unlikely
That's why my homies call me D the L-O-see
You'll catch me at a party deep in O.C.
Representin that punk rawk stylee
When I'm on the mic i make the crowd move
To escape reality i bust my own groove
Ladies on the floor say your so smooth
I wink my eyes, and replied
They says real cool
Life ladies don't understand me
Said to call my sign to be an anarchy
Skate in my hand 'cause I'm like that
i bust to surf and off the curb 'cause I'm real phat
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
I'm moanin on and on kickin lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Well, I'm D-Loco a fly shit
Smoke bud with the king click
Don't trip, but addicted
Full flown, can't stop smokin' that homegrown
I gotta phat blown acre out in Riverside
Hallbrook locals the Kings reside
E-Loc, G-Mac, Big Hoss in the pen, BJ, Guido, and my boy Efrin
I go coocoo for coco, chocolate thai, smoke bud till i die
You wonder why, stay high like a black fly
Then i stop, buzzin' like a busy is ah ba ba ba
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 4:20, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday i get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
Saint Vicious pay attention let me educate
I put a tapper in the gut of this legislate
Push the tap, and i watch the sewer drain out
Lies lies lies, what i've been talkin about
Well not old school like i use to (used to)
Kottonmouth Kings just broke through (move fool)
Psychedelic hip hop punk rock shit
So back the hell up and get smacked in your lip
Saint don't quit I'm from the old school
5 block didn't have a pipe to skate to
Lawns wet, rail slide, real smooth
No skate mall but it was still cool
Life ain't funny, when you ain't got no money
And that clock strikes 420, and you want to get high
No bills get sent when you can't pay the rent
Everyday i get bent yo so i can get by
I'm moanin' on and on kickin' lits from beyond, planet budtron
Bso stay on
This has been the Kottonmouth Kings
Transmitted live from Planet Budtron
With fellow be at the helm
High at the Oregon House
Bobby be , Saint Vicious, D-Loc and I'm Daddy X
Saying work hard, play hard, and stay hard
Oh and a one more thing, check please!
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