"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.
Ha ha yeah it's yours truly Houston's own
Chamillionaire holding it down
For the player that don't believe in love at first sight
But the player that believes that he
Can get love on the first night that's right
So before I get to discussing
What type of eye candy I need
What type of visual stimulation
She needs to be able to achieve
There's something special bout ya
That ain't hard to see
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
From the moment you flashed your teeth
I knew that we had to meet
Your face was the Mona Lisa
Your ass was a masterpiece
Asked ya if you was married
And that's when you answered no
I asked if you had a nigga
And that's when you said for sho
So I didn't care as you walked away
I was stare at your bottom in apple bottoms
Your waist was shaped like a pear
Really round at the bottom a little thin up there
So instead of letting ya leave
I pursued ya just like the player that I am and damn
Couldn't help but to help myself
To a helping because I smelled some perfume
That can make me melt
And you shoulda seen my demeanor
I had to control myself
Approaching you from the rear
As I tapped you right on your belt
And you tried to look surprised
Like you didn't know I was behind ya
But I could tell by your smile
You was waiting on me to find ya
Mess with my thought a bit
And tried to play hard to get
You don't wanna look like you're freaky
Pretend like it's hard to hit
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Let's give a toast to the ladies that look better up close
That look better by the behind
And better when you approach
You try your best to get up close
Until you smelling the soap
Lovely ladies from coast to coast
Get in bed and she dope
Not a eight and not a nine
Grade you more than just a dime
Bentley steering wheel body
Cause you look better from behind
Grip around your waist turn it
Like I'm just trying to get a better view
Cause God must of been working hard
When he assembled you
I'm trying to test drive
Your rear and your shape
And I'm power steering your waist
And I see your rear is in shake
If you thought I couldn't handle it
Then you're really mistaken
No one here to keep you near
Then you're here for the taking
I'm still waiting for you to give me one good reason
Why you couldn't leave and be speeding
Off in some good breezing
You'll never spend another boring night
In some hood freezing
But posted up by standing water
During some good season
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Had to tell you that I'm really feeling your style
Saw you walking by and couldn't let you pass
Gotta tell ya that I'm really feeling your smile
But even better is the beauty of your ass
Staring right into the beauty of your profile
There's something that I gotta ask
Can you let me let me
Let me view your beauty from the back
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Grown and sexy
Chamillionaire holding it down
For the player that don't believe in love at first sight
But the player that believes that he
Can get love on the first night that's right
So before I get to discussing
What type of eye candy I need
What type of visual stimulation
She needs to be able to achieve
There's something special bout ya
That ain't hard to see
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
From the moment you flashed your teeth
I knew that we had to meet
Your face was the Mona Lisa
Your ass was a masterpiece
Asked ya if you was married
And that's when you answered no
I asked if you had a nigga
And that's when you said for sho
So I didn't care as you walked away
I was stare at your bottom in apple bottoms
Your waist was shaped like a pear
Really round at the bottom a little thin up there
So instead of letting ya leave
I pursued ya just like the player that I am and damn
Couldn't help but to help myself
To a helping because I smelled some perfume
That can make me melt
And you shoulda seen my demeanor
I had to control myself
Approaching you from the rear
As I tapped you right on your belt
And you tried to look surprised
Like you didn't know I was behind ya
But I could tell by your smile
You was waiting on me to find ya
Mess with my thought a bit
And tried to play hard to get
You don't wanna look like you're freaky
Pretend like it's hard to hit
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Let's give a toast to the ladies that look better up close
That look better by the behind
And better when you approach
You try your best to get up close
Until you smelling the soap
Lovely ladies from coast to coast
Get in bed and she dope
Not a eight and not a nine
Grade you more than just a dime
Bentley steering wheel body
Cause you look better from behind
Grip around your waist turn it
Like I'm just trying to get a better view
Cause God must of been working hard
When he assembled you
I'm trying to test drive
Your rear and your shape
And I'm power steering your waist
And I see your rear is in shake
If you thought I couldn't handle it
Then you're really mistaken
No one here to keep you near
Then you're here for the taking
I'm still waiting for you to give me one good reason
Why you couldn't leave and be speeding
Off in some good breezing
You'll never spend another boring night
In some hood freezing
But posted up by standing water
During some good season
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Had to tell you that I'm really feeling your style
Saw you walking by and couldn't let you pass
Gotta tell ya that I'm really feeling your smile
But even better is the beauty of your ass
Staring right into the beauty of your profile
There's something that I gotta ask
Can you let me let me
Let me view your beauty from the back
Grown and sexy from your head down
To your toes you know you're fine (You know you're fine)
Got that perfect face a perfect shape
And perfect smile (A perfect smile)
But soon as you turned around (Turned around)
It's something that I realized yeah
You look better from behind
You look better from behind grown and sexy
Grown and sexy
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Grown And Sexy [Album] Lyrics as written by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds Daryl Simmons
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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sexist... chamillionare should go die
get this tune bangin' when am club bound!!
i guess hes like really ugly so she looks beter from behing