"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.
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
Vvs on me
All my whips they foreign
I know bitches calling
I just keep ignoring
Everyday I'm touring
Everyday Am balling
Flexing, they annoyed
I just keep on balling
Made the money
What's next
Now they so obsessed
I'm not just impressed
That's fake loving
I raise my hands
And touch the sky
I put all my trust in Christ
I don't fuck with anti-Christ
You can not touch me that's a lie
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
Fuck your opinion
I'm fighting my demons
Got me a vision so ain't sleeping
Am on a mission
This niggas be beneath me
They didn't believe me
Got me a jeweler
Cost me about 50
My life is a movie
Yeah i'm alive
Thanks to the man above
Paid
Blessed from the rest
Making money was the plan
Mama look how i made it
Sacrificed, yeah i paid it
Now i'm living all my dreams
Live is a lesson
I'm counting my blessings
Money is the reason
I change the weather
Call me the season
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
Vvs on me
All my whips they foreign
I know bitches calling
I just keep ignoring
Everyday I'm touring
Everyday Am balling
Flexing, they annoyed
I just keep on balling
Made the money
What's next
Now they so obsessed
I'm not just impressed
That's fake loving
I raise my hands
And touch the sky
I put all my trust in Christ
I don't fuck with anti-Christ
You can not touch me that's a lie
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
Fuck your opinion
I'm fighting my demons
Got me a vision so ain't sleeping
Am on a mission
This niggas be beneath me
They didn't believe me
Got me a jeweler
Cost me about 50
My life is a movie
Yeah i'm alive
Thanks to the man above
Paid
Blessed from the rest
Making money was the plan
Mama look how i made it
Sacrificed, yeah i paid it
Now i'm living all my dreams
Live is a lesson
I'm counting my blessings
Money is the reason
I change the weather
Call me the season
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
All my life
All my life
I be asking one question
All my life
All my life
I be trying to get the message
All my life
I normalize
Sacrifice and I pay the price
Lyrics submitted by avantreese
All My Life Lyrics as written by Uwagboe Gabriel
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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