"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.
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basically the way i see it he's sayin:
Yo fuck use guyz i ain' done and i don't care wat you think of me I don't give a shit about yo opinion and i have no regrets in my lyfe This song is not only tellin you that as the listner but also he's tellin himself thru this song that he's got more that he wantz 2 git out You'll all see wen Relapse and Relapse 2 drop this yr itz gonnna be sic
Peace out
this is the 22nd track off the Re-Up. the chorus is hard-hitting... definitely the best song on the album.
The Album? This is one of the best songs he's EVER done. The lyrics are absolutely sick
This song has got to get some radio play soon.
Man, great song, but I seriously doubt it will get played on the radio at all.
Goddamn... How come none of my friends dont like rap? I started to like rap cuz of this...
this is best song in rap HISTORY period, i dont think anyone ever will be able to produce a song better than this. this song is basically saying im not done yet so fuck off and it puts me in a mind state where i can't escape.
actually i have heard some of these lyrics on an older mixtape "The Freestyle Manual (DJ Exclusive Mixtape)" definitly written before proof died.
This made the album worth buying.. 100% percent, this is one of the most meaningful songs ever written by Mathers.. very very nice.
great song probably the best on the album but shady89 i dont know about the best song in rap history haha still a great song though
This song is f**king insane...I love it.
I don't quite get what's he's trying to say, other than 'I'm not finished, I still wanna' rap'
It's one of my favourites of his, already for sure. Got an awesome beat too...
"i'm not slowing or softenin
and i master this rap shit til my ass gets wasted... (gunshots) til my assassination, til i'm slain..
as long as there is still this hunger and will in me then expect the longer life expectancy"
He's gonna keep on going until he burns out and stops caring...like he says in soldier, 'until i retire my guersey, till the fire inside dies and expires at 30'
But that never happened
hopefully he keeps em' coming for a while.