"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.
[Intro:]
Shake oh yeah shake a shake shake a shake
Shake a shake shake a shake
[Verse 1:]
Bad ass strippa gonna flip you on ya back
Take you on the bed n take ur stack of 50 dolla bills
On the table international rock cable
Top neva eva stop drop you to the ground like a car,
Im a dancer high quality romancer im a tease
Every freeze and im gonna seaze real money
Im high class fill up ma chapagne glass
Ima choke if ur broke man coz u jus aint funny
[Chorus:]
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off into burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control
[Verse 2:]
Theres enough men out there tryna check me
Talkin to ma sister tryna get thru to me
Looking at my face when they feeling lonely
And they all wanna fone me get to kno me
Sittin in the cell with ya hands on ya head
Looking at the four walls wishing u were dead
U b gettin giggy wen u listen to ma rythme
Rock every god damn block inya prison
[Mini chorus:]
I have come to show you how to party u have got to get wit this
I wont take no shit from nobody i wont take no lyrical diss.
[Chorus:]
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off into burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off in suit burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control....
Shake oh yeah shake a shake shake a shake
Shake a shake shake a shake
[Verse 1:]
Bad ass strippa gonna flip you on ya back
Take you on the bed n take ur stack of 50 dolla bills
On the table international rock cable
Top neva eva stop drop you to the ground like a car,
Im a dancer high quality romancer im a tease
Every freeze and im gonna seaze real money
Im high class fill up ma chapagne glass
Ima choke if ur broke man coz u jus aint funny
[Chorus:]
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off into burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control
[Verse 2:]
Theres enough men out there tryna check me
Talkin to ma sister tryna get thru to me
Looking at my face when they feeling lonely
And they all wanna fone me get to kno me
Sittin in the cell with ya hands on ya head
Looking at the four walls wishing u were dead
U b gettin giggy wen u listen to ma rythme
Rock every god damn block inya prison
[Mini chorus:]
I have come to show you how to party u have got to get wit this
I wont take no shit from nobody i wont take no lyrical diss.
[Chorus:]
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off into burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control
Bad ass strippa in an escalade jump out the trunk im in San Tropez
Boys on the beach and they wanna play so i strip off in suit burberry
Bad ass strippa in a gucci thong see through dress by louis vuitton,
Bounce on a yacht and dance round a pole show em wot i got im outta control....
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