"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.
(feat. MC Chris)
[Intro, MC Nate]
hey, welcome to the orientation
my name's Nate and I'll be your homie for this year
today we'll be moving into our dorms and building community
so go get your keys from the main office
come back,and get ready to meet your roommates
alright?
(alright alright alright)
He was the roommate from hell
He was the roommate from hell
[verse 1, MC Lars]
Satan was my roommate, so junior year was hell
he lacked social skills and had a pudgent smell
when your roommate is the devil it can be extremely wack
putting posters on the wall of Trapt and Nickelback
until the break of dawn he'd be mutilating sheep
it's 4 A.M. Satan, can you please go to sleep?
I can't have girls over when the dorm smells like Sterno
when did room 56 become Dante's Inferno?
he likes death and destruction, I like radio and art
he likes holding down Christians and reading (?)
while I'm going class studying my notes
he's eating baby fetuses and sacrificing goats
he tricks the freshmen girls into eating apples
holding black masses down at the campus chapel
should of never moved in (but no) wished I were dead
should of found a place off campus on Craig's List instead
[chorus]
he was the roommate from hell
his name was Lucifier
someone call a priest
and bring the crucifer
he was the roommate from hell
leaves his pitchfork in my bed
I'm in a satanic panic
cuz he is messing with my head
[repeat chorus]
(yo)
(wut)
(pass the dope helium over here yo)
(okay, but wait... Satan, that's too much!)
[verse 2, mcchris]
boy you need a bitch slap, not my fault we're mismatched
you geek out over Beakman's World, I dig out World of Witchcraft
you thinkin' that I'm riff-raff, huffin' on a dishrag
I am just a player, play Slayer then I kick back
I know I reek of sulfer, leave the shower curtain open
I come home drunk, make crank calls to (?)
but college is like Salem, all these bitches be so smokin'
if you're thinkin' that I'm leavin' then I'm thinkin' that you're jokin'
I gotta share my bong with this post-punk chump
(?) says you've been through all my stuff
"I wish you'd go to hell", I say "hey that's where I'm from"
blast Death Cab and Devo, he's too emo to get crunk
I was a very nice boss down in Paradise Lost
I have very nice bling cuz my minions (?)
colleges is knowledge at a very high cost
gotta go do some blow with that ho Kate Moss
[repeat chorus]
[outro, mcchris]
Lars you're causing laughter
when you call yourself a rapper dude
how many dope albums are there named after you?
I always got beer, I always got weed
best roommate ever if you ever asked me
[Intro, MC Nate]
hey, welcome to the orientation
my name's Nate and I'll be your homie for this year
today we'll be moving into our dorms and building community
so go get your keys from the main office
come back,and get ready to meet your roommates
alright?
(alright alright alright)
He was the roommate from hell
He was the roommate from hell
[verse 1, MC Lars]
Satan was my roommate, so junior year was hell
he lacked social skills and had a pudgent smell
when your roommate is the devil it can be extremely wack
putting posters on the wall of Trapt and Nickelback
until the break of dawn he'd be mutilating sheep
it's 4 A.M. Satan, can you please go to sleep?
I can't have girls over when the dorm smells like Sterno
when did room 56 become Dante's Inferno?
he likes death and destruction, I like radio and art
he likes holding down Christians and reading (?)
while I'm going class studying my notes
he's eating baby fetuses and sacrificing goats
he tricks the freshmen girls into eating apples
holding black masses down at the campus chapel
should of never moved in (but no) wished I were dead
should of found a place off campus on Craig's List instead
[chorus]
he was the roommate from hell
his name was Lucifier
someone call a priest
and bring the crucifer
he was the roommate from hell
leaves his pitchfork in my bed
I'm in a satanic panic
cuz he is messing with my head
[repeat chorus]
(yo)
(wut)
(pass the dope helium over here yo)
(okay, but wait... Satan, that's too much!)
[verse 2, mcchris]
boy you need a bitch slap, not my fault we're mismatched
you geek out over Beakman's World, I dig out World of Witchcraft
you thinkin' that I'm riff-raff, huffin' on a dishrag
I am just a player, play Slayer then I kick back
I know I reek of sulfer, leave the shower curtain open
I come home drunk, make crank calls to (?)
but college is like Salem, all these bitches be so smokin'
if you're thinkin' that I'm leavin' then I'm thinkin' that you're jokin'
I gotta share my bong with this post-punk chump
(?) says you've been through all my stuff
"I wish you'd go to hell", I say "hey that's where I'm from"
blast Death Cab and Devo, he's too emo to get crunk
I was a very nice boss down in Paradise Lost
I have very nice bling cuz my minions (?)
colleges is knowledge at a very high cost
gotta go do some blow with that ho Kate Moss
[repeat chorus]
[outro, mcchris]
Lars you're causing laughter
when you call yourself a rapper dude
how many dope albums are there named after you?
I always got beer, I always got weed
best roommate ever if you ever asked me
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"but college is like Salem, all these bitches be so smokin'"
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I actually first heard about MC Lars through someone I know on an Internet forum who did a brilliant remix of this track (myspace.com/scuzzy89music, if you're interested... sorry if this isn't allowed).
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HAHA - Satan becomes MC Chris when he swallows helium! XD
was always a big mcchris fan and later (independently) got into MC Lars, you couldn't imagine how excited i was for this song. "pass that giant balloon of helium over here"
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