"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.
Dear god, I'm gonna teach you in this prayer
And I thank you for all the food you've given me
And all the health and strength
And may my family be held safely and strong
As well as myself
And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord
And I beg your forgivness
For I sin everyday
In your sons name, Christ Jesus
Amen
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
Nigga look at what the streets have done to me man
Hustlin and strugglin
I deserve a better hand
'cause I'm runnin these streets under they say
Motherfuckers like you can't relate
'cause you ain't all about the hustling all about the bustin
All about the thuggin, baby
Never let it go
If you gotta die, lie, shake it wit a fo'-fo'
Then do so, 'cause that's the life you chose
Shoul've fallowed the cracks in the road
You heart and your soul
'cause if there's one thing I know
Good niggaz come and they go
Bitch niggaz actin like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one
Hope you got yourself a gun niggaz
'cause you know I cock and blow niggaz
And if right silent the temp, get on some shit
Go on out, six feet deep and slump niggaz
'cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
To the day of my demise
I'ma ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
Take a look at what this worlds done made me
All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family
But I'm strong, motherfuckers can't break me down
Niggaz really gonna hate me now
As I'm givin a fuck
I'm tryna get my life together
Shit a nigga can't ride forever
Tryna see a hundred mil' or better
Befo' I die
Don't ask me why, I
Got a fasination wit for freak ho's
New whips wit two seats and two do's
I've been waitin so long to explode
Now watch me cock back and unload
Bullets goin threw the chest and out the back
Shit is usually how the babry acts
Now the look in your face is so relaxed
Now your family moans and deals wit that
But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
They all want me...Dead
Why the fuck would they want to see me live?
So I'm gearin up to get into some shit
Niggaz better kiss the wife and kids
It's just the way us niggaz live
And I run wit real niggaz that run wit big guns
That are designed to pop ya lid (Shit)
Never met a real nigga I didn't like
Never met a bitch nigga that I didn't fight
Now niggaz gon get down, and a nigga gon lay down
Dependin on how niggaz view life
And you'll never look in my eyes
And you'll never, ever smile
'cause your high, is comin down
And you can't touch me
But if you really want to fuck wit me
c'mon and get your heat my niggaz
Don't you ever prevoke my niggaz
Don't ever doubt this nigga
'cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child
Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Repeat once]
And I thank you for all the food you've given me
And all the health and strength
And may my family be held safely and strong
As well as myself
And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord
And I beg your forgivness
For I sin everyday
In your sons name, Christ Jesus
Amen
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
Nigga look at what the streets have done to me man
Hustlin and strugglin
I deserve a better hand
'cause I'm runnin these streets under they say
Motherfuckers like you can't relate
'cause you ain't all about the hustling all about the bustin
All about the thuggin, baby
Never let it go
If you gotta die, lie, shake it wit a fo'-fo'
Then do so, 'cause that's the life you chose
Shoul've fallowed the cracks in the road
You heart and your soul
'cause if there's one thing I know
Good niggaz come and they go
Bitch niggaz actin like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one
Hope you got yourself a gun niggaz
'cause you know I cock and blow niggaz
And if right silent the temp, get on some shit
Go on out, six feet deep and slump niggaz
'cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
To the day of my demise
I'ma ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
Take a look at what this worlds done made me
All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family
But I'm strong, motherfuckers can't break me down
Niggaz really gonna hate me now
As I'm givin a fuck
I'm tryna get my life together
Shit a nigga can't ride forever
Tryna see a hundred mil' or better
Befo' I die
Don't ask me why, I
Got a fasination wit for freak ho's
New whips wit two seats and two do's
I've been waitin so long to explode
Now watch me cock back and unload
Bullets goin threw the chest and out the back
Shit is usually how the babry acts
Now the look in your face is so relaxed
Now your family moans and deals wit that
But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Ja Rule]
They all want me...Dead
Why the fuck would they want to see me live?
So I'm gearin up to get into some shit
Niggaz better kiss the wife and kids
It's just the way us niggaz live
And I run wit real niggaz that run wit big guns
That are designed to pop ya lid (Shit)
Never met a real nigga I didn't like
Never met a bitch nigga that I didn't fight
Now niggaz gon get down, and a nigga gon lay down
Dependin on how niggaz view life
And you'll never look in my eyes
And you'll never, ever smile
'cause your high, is comin down
And you can't touch me
But if you really want to fuck wit me
c'mon and get your heat my niggaz
Don't you ever prevoke my niggaz
Don't ever doubt this nigga
'cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child
Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why
[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'cause this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Repeat once]
Lyrics submitted by Rachondaloose
The Warning Lyrics as written by Irving Domingo Lorenzo Andre S. Parker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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