"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.
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Every once in a while there is some asshole
Giving you shit, 'cause something in his life won't fold
Usually, I'd walk away
The peace offering another day
He seems not to want to trade
So he must pay (it's the inevitable, it's going down)
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
(Thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) You ain't know (thrasher)
That I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher) I'm a
Every once in a while there's that same asshole
Trying swing and hit, 'cause the things he can't control
And god knows what we'll unfurl
Either with or without his girl
'Cause I browsed down, his fingers curled
Like it's his world (it's the inevitable, it's going down)
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
(Thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) You ain't know (thrasher)
That I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher) I'm a
Now I know that slime ballers laying out and all
But he said things that were so uncalled for
But he deserved it (the boy deserved it)
And I know your his girl but you should ride wit' me
'Cause I'll show you feelings that you've never seen
Keep this rocking it's brown mixed with green (we'll be swervin')
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Every once in a while there is some asshole
Giving you shit, 'cause something in his life won't fold
Usually, I'd walk away
The peace offering another day
He seems not to want to trade
So he must pay (it's the inevitable, it's going down)
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
(Thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) You ain't know (thrasher)
That I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher) I'm a
Every once in a while there's that same asshole
Trying swing and hit, 'cause the things he can't control
And god knows what we'll unfurl
Either with or without his girl
'Cause I browsed down, his fingers curled
Like it's his world (it's the inevitable, it's going down)
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
(Thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) You ain't know (thrasher)
That I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher)
I'm a (thrasher) I'm a (thrasher) I'm a
Now I know that slime ballers laying out and all
But he said things that were so uncalled for
But he deserved it (the boy deserved it)
And I know your his girl but you should ride wit' me
'Cause I'll show you feelings that you've never seen
Keep this rocking it's brown mixed with green (we'll be swervin')
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
He's talking (fuck him up) at me (fuck him up)
Instead of (fuck him up) to me (fuck him up)
My intelligence (fuck him up) sacked me (fuck him up)
But he says (fuck him up) he'll run through me (fuck him up)
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nice hooking song. Good to excersise to. N.E.R.D. rocks.
The story of the person getting bullied finally gaining the courage to knock the bully the fuck out.....become the thrasher
This song is great when I'm frustrated. Like when someone's patronising you, obviously looking for a fight, trying to treat you like you're unequal when they're the one with the problem, and you just gotta beat 'em down (verbally or otherwise) and that's what I reckon this song's about.
obviously it's about a bully or some cocky fucker looking to start drama but in the end, he gets his ass laid out cause the speaker (Pharell) finally beats his ass up. pretty dope.