"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.
Feel my fingerpaint
Color to stimulate ya
Rise relate ya
Passin' over nature
Rhymes to break ya take ya
Up to the maker
Away from the pain we feeling safer
The liberator rectify the soul
Written in red, green, black trimmed with gold
We've been in war,
Hey man we've seen it all before
Got you feelin' the fundamentals of flow
Toe-to-toe holla battle
Creepin' bout the shadow
??? bring a barage of marshmellow, yellow
Burbs and words curse slip style mellow
Zion the lion hearted fellow, bellow
Fingerpaint, you can hold the weight
When the mind is great let the soul create
Evaporate like I'm water when I change my state
Mindscape to the next levitate, (tate)
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowin all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breath in, out.....
Feel my fingerpaint as the world spins
Let my fingerpaint cleanse your sins
My fingers paintin all colors on your skin
See my reflection in my brother my twin
I'm sparkin a light to your soul deep within
You can hear the echo when I drop my pin
The children hold hands under the rainbow
Everywhere we go we bring the same flow
Feel my fingerpaint on my parabola
Supernovas, nebula's satellites
My fingers paintin all over the mic
My fingers paintin lightning when it strikes
Bring down the rain, release the pain
Master the craft to die and rise again
My fingers paint across all terrain
My fingerpaint penetrate your brain...
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowin all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Color to stimulate ya
Rise relate ya
Passin' over nature
Rhymes to break ya take ya
Up to the maker
Away from the pain we feeling safer
The liberator rectify the soul
Written in red, green, black trimmed with gold
We've been in war,
Hey man we've seen it all before
Got you feelin' the fundamentals of flow
Toe-to-toe holla battle
Creepin' bout the shadow
??? bring a barage of marshmellow, yellow
Burbs and words curse slip style mellow
Zion the lion hearted fellow, bellow
Fingerpaint, you can hold the weight
When the mind is great let the soul create
Evaporate like I'm water when I change my state
Mindscape to the next levitate, (tate)
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowin all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breath in, out.....
Feel my fingerpaint as the world spins
Let my fingerpaint cleanse your sins
My fingers paintin all colors on your skin
See my reflection in my brother my twin
I'm sparkin a light to your soul deep within
You can hear the echo when I drop my pin
The children hold hands under the rainbow
Everywhere we go we bring the same flow
Feel my fingerpaint on my parabola
Supernovas, nebula's satellites
My fingers paintin all over the mic
My fingers paintin lightning when it strikes
Bring down the rain, release the pain
Master the craft to die and rise again
My fingers paint across all terrain
My fingerpaint penetrate your brain...
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowin all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
Breaking all the shit that I don't want to hold
Making all the song words inside me flow
Sowing all the seeds that can make me grow
And I'm breathin, I'm breathin slow
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