"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.
Ain't no way you bout to stop this sickness
From the deepest darkest part of Missouri
Psycho alpha skitzo get ya chest, ya diggin' me
A-be -S-O-L-you-T-E P-O-W-E-are see me clownin'
Look at all you playa hatas frownin
Raw, God said kill 'em all, Tech's backs to the wall
Fightin' for my life and I'ma bust back 'til they fall
And I ain't even slangin' them thangs
I'm hollerin one-eight-seven you trippin wit Strange
I'm really real wit it, like my homie AJ say deal wit it
Pushin' and pullin' fightin' for the meal ticket
In a minute I'ma do it like a villain
I'ma get 'em in the middle of a bomb
Put 'em on the spot
Till the funk go pop and they'll never have other calm
Tech Nizzle, when I'm fizzle this who be you
Rollin wit Dave Trap, Violet Brown, and 3DQ, hootie hoo
For those not knowin' Missouli true
I'ma tell you like the Swedish would say it, "Sig Min Kuk"
[Chorus]
Absolute Power! That's the only way to roll
Absolute Power! They love us everywhere we go
Absolute Power! Tecca Nina's bout to blow
Absolute Power, Absolute Power
Absolute Power! That's the only way to roll
Absolute Power! They love us everywhere we go
Absolute Power! Tecca Nina's bout to blow
Absolute Power, Absolute Power
I do hip hop and I mix it wit the hard rock
'Cause I'm in this rhyming for climbing
Tech N9ne he's unwinding the shining is blinding
Greedy so we constantly grinding
I been in the game sixteen years makin' rap tunes
Raisin hella havoc up in the classroom
Now in '02 you can watch me clownin' and diamonds shining
Watchin' DVD's on the Hoshitoshi (It's all Jesus)
Now I keep the crowds pumpin' they jumpin'
Get back to the telly we rollin' and stickin' somethin'
Racin' to the main line
Absolute Power is havin' Halle Berry & Juliette Lewis at the same time
O!, that's how Strange niggas run
Listen to the villain wit a kinda sociated tongue
(We're close to the end) but not done
The Tech's just begin begun beginning to begin to have fun
The curse is tryin' to put me in the hearse
But I will not tumble first things first
Talk a lot of shit and I can't take more
Fuck Jay Ferus and everybody down wit him and fuck JCOR
[Chorus]
Thanks to Strange Muzik I'm comin'
And all my enemies they runnin'
Now all my hatas bummin' 'cause I was summoned
We Kansas City playas and we bout sold game
We make it so Tecca Nina is a household name
How many point you got, I got 50
Here's a question to the Cencorship Committee
Who's the biggest gang of niggas in the city?
My villains are gritty
Big Scoob, Texas, Will, Bakari, rest in piece Short Nitty
Growl wit the evil ways, power what the people say
Rebel yellin we're felons and my pockets are swellin'
This beats from Berlin Germany
Throwin' up MizzIzzy so ain't no other city concernin' me
I teach it and I speak very loosely
Stamina gunnin' got playa hatas runnin' profusely
Now I got the parents pissed and ready to noose me
'Cause they know that Absolute Power corrupts, absolutely!!
[Chorus]
From the deepest darkest part of Missouri
Psycho alpha skitzo get ya chest, ya diggin' me
A-be -S-O-L-you-T-E P-O-W-E-are see me clownin'
Look at all you playa hatas frownin
Raw, God said kill 'em all, Tech's backs to the wall
Fightin' for my life and I'ma bust back 'til they fall
And I ain't even slangin' them thangs
I'm hollerin one-eight-seven you trippin wit Strange
I'm really real wit it, like my homie AJ say deal wit it
Pushin' and pullin' fightin' for the meal ticket
In a minute I'ma do it like a villain
I'ma get 'em in the middle of a bomb
Put 'em on the spot
Till the funk go pop and they'll never have other calm
Tech Nizzle, when I'm fizzle this who be you
Rollin wit Dave Trap, Violet Brown, and 3DQ, hootie hoo
For those not knowin' Missouli true
I'ma tell you like the Swedish would say it, "Sig Min Kuk"
[Chorus]
Absolute Power! That's the only way to roll
Absolute Power! They love us everywhere we go
Absolute Power! Tecca Nina's bout to blow
Absolute Power, Absolute Power
Absolute Power! That's the only way to roll
Absolute Power! They love us everywhere we go
Absolute Power! Tecca Nina's bout to blow
Absolute Power, Absolute Power
I do hip hop and I mix it wit the hard rock
'Cause I'm in this rhyming for climbing
Tech N9ne he's unwinding the shining is blinding
Greedy so we constantly grinding
I been in the game sixteen years makin' rap tunes
Raisin hella havoc up in the classroom
Now in '02 you can watch me clownin' and diamonds shining
Watchin' DVD's on the Hoshitoshi (It's all Jesus)
Now I keep the crowds pumpin' they jumpin'
Get back to the telly we rollin' and stickin' somethin'
Racin' to the main line
Absolute Power is havin' Halle Berry & Juliette Lewis at the same time
O!, that's how Strange niggas run
Listen to the villain wit a kinda sociated tongue
(We're close to the end) but not done
The Tech's just begin begun beginning to begin to have fun
The curse is tryin' to put me in the hearse
But I will not tumble first things first
Talk a lot of shit and I can't take more
Fuck Jay Ferus and everybody down wit him and fuck JCOR
[Chorus]
Thanks to Strange Muzik I'm comin'
And all my enemies they runnin'
Now all my hatas bummin' 'cause I was summoned
We Kansas City playas and we bout sold game
We make it so Tecca Nina is a household name
How many point you got, I got 50
Here's a question to the Cencorship Committee
Who's the biggest gang of niggas in the city?
My villains are gritty
Big Scoob, Texas, Will, Bakari, rest in piece Short Nitty
Growl wit the evil ways, power what the people say
Rebel yellin we're felons and my pockets are swellin'
This beats from Berlin Germany
Throwin' up MizzIzzy so ain't no other city concernin' me
I teach it and I speak very loosely
Stamina gunnin' got playa hatas runnin' profusely
Now I got the parents pissed and ready to noose me
'Cause they know that Absolute Power corrupts, absolutely!!
[Chorus]
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