"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.
Girl, you must think that I'm crazy
But we all know you's a cutie
And you're all like, "Nuh uh boys don't wanna get with me"
Girl, please
I can see right through those
Fake colored contacts
Your eyes ain't blue, I bet that hair's held by glue
Hey shorty, why you playing games
These games were played, the rules were made,
You dropped these names and now you got nothing to say
It's like an episode of cheaters
And I'm that dude with the gun
Hiding cameras in your bedroom
Girl, I know what you've done
I might be your baby's daddy
But that don't mean shit
When every dude on the block
Knows that you're a trick
Hey shorty, why you playing games
These games were played, the rules were made,
You dropped these names and now you got nothing to say
Uh, I'm not a rockstar but I still tend to rock hard
You trying to play games tease and trying to keep me rock hard
Trying to make me slap you and see me in a cop car
Catch me speeding in stock cars expecting me to stop hard
You playing with the mind of the craziest kind
Telling me how much you love me when I know that you're lying
You must be snorting lines if you think that I'm crying
You manipulating backstabbing cold and kaniving
I went from last to first but this is first to last
I'm the major league playa you can kiss my ass, trick
(Drop it like it's...)
...Hot! Shake it like a salt shaker [x4]
Fuck [x4]
Fuck you [many times]
But we all know you's a cutie
And you're all like, "Nuh uh boys don't wanna get with me"
Girl, please
I can see right through those
Fake colored contacts
Your eyes ain't blue, I bet that hair's held by glue
Hey shorty, why you playing games
These games were played, the rules were made,
You dropped these names and now you got nothing to say
It's like an episode of cheaters
And I'm that dude with the gun
Hiding cameras in your bedroom
Girl, I know what you've done
I might be your baby's daddy
But that don't mean shit
When every dude on the block
Knows that you're a trick
Hey shorty, why you playing games
These games were played, the rules were made,
You dropped these names and now you got nothing to say
Uh, I'm not a rockstar but I still tend to rock hard
You trying to play games tease and trying to keep me rock hard
Trying to make me slap you and see me in a cop car
Catch me speeding in stock cars expecting me to stop hard
You playing with the mind of the craziest kind
Telling me how much you love me when I know that you're lying
You must be snorting lines if you think that I'm crying
You manipulating backstabbing cold and kaniving
I went from last to first but this is first to last
I'm the major league playa you can kiss my ass, trick
(Drop it like it's...)
...Hot! Shake it like a salt shaker [x4]
Fuck [x4]
Fuck you [many times]
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best rap/rock song ever!! Makes me wanna battle someone.
I lied.
hahahah
SHAKE IT LIKE A SALT SHAKERRRRRR
<3 love it.
whos the rapper guy at the end??? anybody know?
I'm pretty sure its Sage Francis... he's on Epitaph, just like FFTL...
He also rapped on the track "Let Them Eat War" for Bad Religion's album The Empire Strikes First
nah the rap guy on this song is Major League Playa
FFTL is my favourite band ever ther amazing
SHAKE IT LIKE A SALT SHAKER
thats awsum
yea, the guy def is Major League Playa, i was at one of their shows recently and Sonny said "yea, Major League Playa could'nt make it out here tonight".....
am i the only one who doesnt hear the words 'drop it like its hot' in this song?
Nah, he starts screaming "drop it like its hot" when Major League Playa is mid sentence on his last line. After he says "you can...."
Yeah, it's definitely Major League Playa. I mean, HELLO, it says in the lyrics of his rap part
"Went from last to first but this is first to last I'm the major leauge playa you can kiss my ass trick."