"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.
No keys, push
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
Push button start swear this shit is like a space ship
Hanging with them killas we gorillas we go apeshit
I just went and busted down the Rollie now the face lit
I was gonna go and fuck yo hoe but she too basic
You know when she pull up to the party she want the whole team
Sitting at the top we stayin high off all the evergreen
Addicted to the cash yeah my mama raised a fuckin fiend
Addicted to the cash yeah had to go and get the green
All my shit is one of one I'm rockin shit you've never seen
Got all of the latest drop like Gucci Louis and supreme
White shoes with the purple shirt it's makin me walk with a lean
Dip and dodgin all the cops and somehow keep my record clean
If he go around talkin down we gon show aggression
Know I keep the ruler like a tutor teach his ass a lesson
We get violent but we keep it silent chopper with suppression
Five seven, double Mac 11 send his ass to heaven
Yeah I just pulled up in that brand new McClairin
Yeah I got the bag and I ain't down with sharin
You can see I'm winnin damn it's so apparent
All the fame and money's getting over bearin
No keys, push
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
Drive around like I'm wanted
White mounds look like summits
I count my Guap I sum it
I get my bag then run it
Feelin like I'm gonna Rage
Broke out the cage
Jump off the stage
Ridin shotty
That's my shawty
Wit my shotty
12 gauge
Yeah she ride with the metal
Put it in reverse put the floor to the pedal
Know I'm winnin check my medals
Tryna be the best no I'm not gon settle
Smokin, tokin, now I'm floatin
Got your girlfriend got her chokin
Get behind it now I'm strokin
Got behind her back got broken
No keys, push
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
Push button start swear this shit is like a space ship
Hanging with them killas we gorillas we go apeshit
I just went and busted down the Rollie now the face lit
I was gonna go and fuck yo hoe but she too basic
You know when she pull up to the party she want the whole team
Sitting at the top we stayin high off all the evergreen
Addicted to the cash yeah my mama raised a fuckin fiend
Addicted to the cash yeah had to go and get the green
All my shit is one of one I'm rockin shit you've never seen
Got all of the latest drop like Gucci Louis and supreme
White shoes with the purple shirt it's makin me walk with a lean
Dip and dodgin all the cops and somehow keep my record clean
If he go around talkin down we gon show aggression
Know I keep the ruler like a tutor teach his ass a lesson
We get violent but we keep it silent chopper with suppression
Five seven, double Mac 11 send his ass to heaven
Yeah I just pulled up in that brand new McClairin
Yeah I got the bag and I ain't down with sharin
You can see I'm winnin damn it's so apparent
All the fame and money's getting over bearin
No keys, push
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
Drive around like I'm wanted
White mounds look like summits
I count my Guap I sum it
I get my bag then run it
Feelin like I'm gonna Rage
Broke out the cage
Jump off the stage
Ridin shotty
That's my shawty
Wit my shotty
12 gauge
Yeah she ride with the metal
Put it in reverse put the floor to the pedal
Know I'm winnin check my medals
Tryna be the best no I'm not gon settle
Smokin, tokin, now I'm floatin
Got your girlfriend got her chokin
Get behind it now I'm strokin
Got behind her back got broken
No keys, push
Smoke screen, kush
Puff puff pass
VV's hit flash
Got Some Cash up on the dash
Got Hunnids in the stash
Speeding through the lights
Swervin through the night
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