"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.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Swizz, swizz, swizz
Hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, hey ho OK
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
How ya doin ma
Yeah come on ma,
What up you in a rush,
What's going on ma, you can keep going ma
But in dis cruel world you goin need a man
thats thurl to keep you warm ma,
You and me we can take the world by storm ma.
So let me have yo math then I'm going ma,
I'm having a after party later on ma,
so you should cancel whatever you was doing ma.
We can get a telly adn visit and get it on ma, you wit it,
I hit it till six in the morn ma,
You ain't hear da song ma,
Yeah I'm a don ma
so if you ridin' wit a playa than come on ma.
How ya doin ma (oh) dis ya song ma (yeah)
yeah come on ma (oh) dis ya song
Ma (yeah) we can get it on ma (oh)
dis ya song ma
(Yeah) yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scream at me
Me and you (it don't get no better) what we can do
(it don't get no better) our love
(it don't get no better) it reminds me of the first time
Hey you know what you remind me of the sun that shines above
I think that I'm in Love
cuz every time I look in your eyes
the be dumb bright like the sunlight when I look in
The sky adn you always look fly,
you stay with a mean outfit and got shoes that didn't even
Come out yet.
Always got your your nails done,
always got yourself fixed you da type of chick I
Can see me going out wit and I ain't knockin yo hustle
but you should be somebody's wifey icey
Wit a rock on your knuckle and we would look hot as a couple
cuz you shaped so beautifully and
You almost as cute as me.
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
Mmmm wit yo sexy self go to my hotel
and undress yourself and after we have sex
Don't stress yourself I will respect you if you respect yourself girl
it's whatever I get da
Chedda when we get together
it don't be no better and you can see I'm throwin' it cuz my arm
On chill it look like i spilled freon on it.
I make hella paper on da block that's why I'm bout
To put a three story elevator in my yacht
they goin keep hatin it boo, but keep holdin' me
Down strong dis song dedicated to you.
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
Baby I can't deny that I'm feelin you,
the way that you look and the things you do.
Knowing, knowing baby it don't whoa o
h whoa it don't get no better
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
I go by the name of cassidy "da problem", me and mashonda
Swizz, swizz, swizz
Hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, hey ho OK
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
How ya doin ma
Yeah come on ma,
What up you in a rush,
What's going on ma, you can keep going ma
But in dis cruel world you goin need a man
thats thurl to keep you warm ma,
You and me we can take the world by storm ma.
So let me have yo math then I'm going ma,
I'm having a after party later on ma,
so you should cancel whatever you was doing ma.
We can get a telly adn visit and get it on ma, you wit it,
I hit it till six in the morn ma,
You ain't hear da song ma,
Yeah I'm a don ma
so if you ridin' wit a playa than come on ma.
How ya doin ma (oh) dis ya song ma (yeah)
yeah come on ma (oh) dis ya song
Ma (yeah) we can get it on ma (oh)
dis ya song ma
(Yeah) yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scream at me
Me and you (it don't get no better) what we can do
(it don't get no better) our love
(it don't get no better) it reminds me of the first time
Hey you know what you remind me of the sun that shines above
I think that I'm in Love
cuz every time I look in your eyes
the be dumb bright like the sunlight when I look in
The sky adn you always look fly,
you stay with a mean outfit and got shoes that didn't even
Come out yet.
Always got your your nails done,
always got yourself fixed you da type of chick I
Can see me going out wit and I ain't knockin yo hustle
but you should be somebody's wifey icey
Wit a rock on your knuckle and we would look hot as a couple
cuz you shaped so beautifully and
You almost as cute as me.
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
Mmmm wit yo sexy self go to my hotel
and undress yourself and after we have sex
Don't stress yourself I will respect you if you respect yourself girl
it's whatever I get da
Chedda when we get together
it don't be no better and you can see I'm throwin' it cuz my arm
On chill it look like i spilled freon on it.
I make hella paper on da block that's why I'm bout
To put a three story elevator in my yacht
they goin keep hatin it boo, but keep holdin' me
Down strong dis song dedicated to you.
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
Baby I can't deny that I'm feelin you,
the way that you look and the things you do.
Knowing, knowing baby it don't whoa o
h whoa it don't get no better
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
How you doin ma, dis ya song ma, yeah come on ma,
dis ya song ma, dis ya song ma, dis ya song
I go by the name of cassidy "da problem", me and mashonda
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lol yea it iz