"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.
Legs Diamond:
Legs Diamond in the house, and we sendin' Clown Love out to Above the Law!
Violent J:
When I sit there and right the shit for the mic I hold, I make sure my beats are loud, and bold, and cold
Violent J is the name that I go by, waking up with blood on my hands and I don't know why
You mother fuckers tryin' to get in my path, don't be surprised when you get a shotgun up your ass
Instigators, I got out for that ass too.
I'm gonna hang you from a street light, mangled and blue, ew!
You on my shit like a fiend on coke, but if you say the wrong thing I'll put a slit in your throat, so
It's not the answer no, I'm not a dancer no, I'm not a hero, a zero, but I call myself a Juggalo
And this is not a Demo, ICP, Above the Law, we let it GO!
Chorus:
Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER! Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER!
Shaggy 2 Dope:
I feel actions, speak loud like words and verbs and adjectives
That give the scrubs a chance to live
Not who's first second or third..
Not he said, she said...Fuck whatever you heard
When you live like that, your life is mangled
In other words your neck is all tangled up
I ain't a hoe, I always go for mine
I was hard and all from the start, but you can always CLIMB....
Chorus:
Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER! Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER!
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
Violent J, I break backs, back break with my crew, if I'm jumping in the pit then I'm getting loose
Cause I'm taking out people, causing bodily harm, making moves to improve the Dark Carnival brainstorm
I'm not inferior, not taking no shit... Last kid that tried to check me got his fuckin' neck slit
Powers my name, the clown be insane
And if we get to panicking
WE ALL GONNA RE-ARRANGE!
The Ring Leader:
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the "Triple Threat"! The Wraith, the Great Milenko, and the Ringmaster!
Legs Diamond in the house, and we sendin' Clown Love out to Above the Law!
Violent J:
When I sit there and right the shit for the mic I hold, I make sure my beats are loud, and bold, and cold
Violent J is the name that I go by, waking up with blood on my hands and I don't know why
You mother fuckers tryin' to get in my path, don't be surprised when you get a shotgun up your ass
Instigators, I got out for that ass too.
I'm gonna hang you from a street light, mangled and blue, ew!
You on my shit like a fiend on coke, but if you say the wrong thing I'll put a slit in your throat, so
It's not the answer no, I'm not a dancer no, I'm not a hero, a zero, but I call myself a Juggalo
And this is not a Demo, ICP, Above the Law, we let it GO!
Chorus:
Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER! Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER!
Shaggy 2 Dope:
I feel actions, speak loud like words and verbs and adjectives
That give the scrubs a chance to live
Not who's first second or third..
Not he said, she said...Fuck whatever you heard
When you live like that, your life is mangled
In other words your neck is all tangled up
I ain't a hoe, I always go for mine
I was hard and all from the start, but you can always CLIMB....
Chorus:
Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER! Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER!
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
Violent J, I break backs, back break with my crew, if I'm jumping in the pit then I'm getting loose
Cause I'm taking out people, causing bodily harm, making moves to improve the Dark Carnival brainstorm
I'm not inferior, not taking no shit... Last kid that tried to check me got his fuckin' neck slit
Powers my name, the clown be insane
And if we get to panicking
WE ALL GONNA RE-ARRANGE!
The Ring Leader:
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the "Triple Threat"! The Wraith, the Great Milenko, and the Ringmaster!
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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