"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.
feat. Bahamadia, Esoteric, Virtuoso
[Ikon the Hologram]
You get split in fucking half
The Ikon the Hologram wrath
But I am the center inside the placenta of ?math?
You clash with cyanide gas and die fast
Rythmical equivalent of solids, liquids and gas
We smash your science, with the power of Lord Titus
But I am the virus inside of the iris of Cyrus
Upon papyrus
I kill snipers and body vipers
And strangle you with the organs of writers who try to fight us
Call me your highness
And sift the blood from the phoenix
Who's guilty like accusing the crucifixion of Jesus
Murder the heathens
And perishing the fatal cobras
Word is bond, my rhymes form into a swarming locust
Provoke us
And face the Zodiac killers
Five Samurai, do or die, fire spitters
Heavy hitters, from the lands of Sudan
?????? ??????? ?????? ????? Ikon the Hologram
What?
[Virtuoso]
All religions ??????
My strikes are fatal, to your style
That's infantile like prenatal
Your mic's a child
That's getting fucked by a wild pedophile
????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? pectoral
So suck my genitals you punk bitch
I'm the general
??????? ????? ??????? ???? ???????
Leave you bloody like menstrual
Cycle, my rap rifle blasts open any beat you throw
Virtuoso flows like an ocean through an acapella dome
[Esoteric]
At a glance, yo my battle stance
Rattles camps, like an avalanche
Crabs don't have a chance
You're sick of this
Bet your cash advance
Grabbing a lance to try to joust
With the conquerer
Stompin the pawns is pottier
Onto the, crucifix
I'll chew your crews to bits, like Mueselix
Or computer chips, who can diss the pugilist
Rappers try, and now they're calcified a bit phermeldehyde
??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?????
The chastiser, ?????? ??????? ?????? ????? excellence
????? ?????? ??????? benevolence, devastating regiments
Ever since, I supplied the diatribe of cyanide
You revive whom you idolize
I finalize death threats
You recollect the Esoteridactyl
Court is now in session, motherfucker drop the gavel
[Bahamadia]
Knowledge is ????? ????? ????? spiritual
??????? ??????? ??????? ?????????
Like oracles at Delphi when they're spoken to
Mortals refer to me as ?????? ????? ????
For exposing the secrets of the sands while I'm blessing you
My presence equals principle like a method philosophies
Of reparations, for payment, a stolen legacy
So hail, homie
I make up the pharoah
Like Ma'at i seek truth through the tarot
Choosing the teachings of ????? over that of the devil
And trading places with ????? ????? to hear my ancestors echo
Commanding thoughts the lady forming the facts
That led me to the holy near the temple of ??????
[Ikon the Hologram]
You get split in fucking half
The Ikon the Hologram wrath
But I am the center inside the placenta of ?math?
You clash with cyanide gas and die fast
Rythmical equivalent of solids, liquids and gas
We smash your science, with the power of Lord Titus
But I am the virus inside of the iris of Cyrus
Upon papyrus
I kill snipers and body vipers
And strangle you with the organs of writers who try to fight us
Call me your highness
And sift the blood from the phoenix
Who's guilty like accusing the crucifixion of Jesus
Murder the heathens
And perishing the fatal cobras
Word is bond, my rhymes form into a swarming locust
Provoke us
And face the Zodiac killers
Five Samurai, do or die, fire spitters
Heavy hitters, from the lands of Sudan
?????? ??????? ?????? ????? Ikon the Hologram
What?
[Virtuoso]
All religions ??????
My strikes are fatal, to your style
That's infantile like prenatal
Your mic's a child
That's getting fucked by a wild pedophile
????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? pectoral
So suck my genitals you punk bitch
I'm the general
??????? ????? ??????? ???? ???????
Leave you bloody like menstrual
Cycle, my rap rifle blasts open any beat you throw
Virtuoso flows like an ocean through an acapella dome
[Esoteric]
At a glance, yo my battle stance
Rattles camps, like an avalanche
Crabs don't have a chance
You're sick of this
Bet your cash advance
Grabbing a lance to try to joust
With the conquerer
Stompin the pawns is pottier
Onto the, crucifix
I'll chew your crews to bits, like Mueselix
Or computer chips, who can diss the pugilist
Rappers try, and now they're calcified a bit phermeldehyde
??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?????
The chastiser, ?????? ??????? ?????? ????? excellence
????? ?????? ??????? benevolence, devastating regiments
Ever since, I supplied the diatribe of cyanide
You revive whom you idolize
I finalize death threats
You recollect the Esoteridactyl
Court is now in session, motherfucker drop the gavel
[Bahamadia]
Knowledge is ????? ????? ????? spiritual
??????? ??????? ??????? ?????????
Like oracles at Delphi when they're spoken to
Mortals refer to me as ?????? ????? ????
For exposing the secrets of the sands while I'm blessing you
My presence equals principle like a method philosophies
Of reparations, for payment, a stolen legacy
So hail, homie
I make up the pharoah
Like Ma'at i seek truth through the tarot
Choosing the teachings of ????? over that of the devil
And trading places with ????? ????? to hear my ancestors echo
Commanding thoughts the lady forming the facts
That led me to the holy near the temple of ??????
Lyrics submitted by crackermcnacca
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