"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.
(I don' got in trouble again)
What the fuck
I tried man
I'm back
(I fucking tried)
(I don' got in trouble again)
Yea (I don' got in trouble again)
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
When the singer Rob calls the police on me
Y'all niggaz ran out and copped the CD
See what I discovered is y'all snitch lovers
I might speak, but I don't fuck with nobody
See what Doug, Jimmy & L.A. don't know
These youngins crossed the line with Hov, I'm letting it blow
Had the papers writing stories like "Didn't they know
This what happen when they made that rapper CEO"
I know, its just a matter of time before the steady hate
Starts to overflow then the levee breaks
And my conscience go, you escape the rico
Why throw everything away over ego?
You paper chasing, they paper hating
Billionare Hov you on the pace to make it
Fuck that exclamation, comma, quotations, I love drama, period
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
Smelling like Patron singing dirty rap songs
Tip-toeing in the crib like six in the morn
Every day its the same I said in blueprint
That I'd never change, its just a part of the game
Respect me I'm a thug, I might cool out for a sec
But expect me to bug its in my blood
But if my chick leave me she gonna leave me for something
She gone leave me 'cause Halie
She ain't gonna leave me for nothing
Picture me getting up with something sleazy
Something, something so easy
You could take out its beat like nothing, something
Soon as you finish cutting you like leave me please
Not me, I need Angelina Jolie's company
So I ain't gonna make a move unless I got I got a plan B
That'll happen the day I have a baby by free
Not to say that anything is wrong with free
Just to say that ain't nothing wrong with me
If my hands in the cookie jar, know one thing
I'ma take the cookie not leave my ring
If my hands in the cookie jar know one thing
I'ma take - y'all know what I mean
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
You little niggas ain't deep you dumb
You niggas ain't gangsta you gum
I chew little niggas
Hock-too, spew little niggas
I can only view little niggas like little niggas
But in lieu of little niggas trying to play that boy
I pkew pkew little niggas with the latest toy
Unlike you little nigga, I'm a grown ass man
Big shoes to fill nigga, grown ass pants
Prolly hustled with your pops, go ask your parents
Its apparent you're staring at a legend
Who, put a few little niggas in the they place before
Trying to eat without saying they grace before
Blasphemous bastard get your faith restored
You're viewing your version of the lord God
MC little nigga, applaud, or forever burn in the fire that I spit at y'all
I rebuke you little nigga
The meek shall perish, I'll roof you little nigga
I'm a project terrorist, cute you little niggas
Think you in my class, substitute little niggas soon feel my wrath
I mute you little niggas You a little nigga
I shall abuse you little nigga, I'm a ill nigga
Now shoot you little niggas
Go somewhere and play, 'cause the day I lose to you little niggas, no day
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
What the fuck
I tried man
I'm back
(I fucking tried)
(I don' got in trouble again)
Yea (I don' got in trouble again)
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
When the singer Rob calls the police on me
Y'all niggaz ran out and copped the CD
See what I discovered is y'all snitch lovers
I might speak, but I don't fuck with nobody
See what Doug, Jimmy & L.A. don't know
These youngins crossed the line with Hov, I'm letting it blow
Had the papers writing stories like "Didn't they know
This what happen when they made that rapper CEO"
I know, its just a matter of time before the steady hate
Starts to overflow then the levee breaks
And my conscience go, you escape the rico
Why throw everything away over ego?
You paper chasing, they paper hating
Billionare Hov you on the pace to make it
Fuck that exclamation, comma, quotations, I love drama, period
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
Smelling like Patron singing dirty rap songs
Tip-toeing in the crib like six in the morn
Every day its the same I said in blueprint
That I'd never change, its just a part of the game
Respect me I'm a thug, I might cool out for a sec
But expect me to bug its in my blood
But if my chick leave me she gonna leave me for something
She gone leave me 'cause Halie
She ain't gonna leave me for nothing
Picture me getting up with something sleazy
Something, something so easy
You could take out its beat like nothing, something
Soon as you finish cutting you like leave me please
Not me, I need Angelina Jolie's company
So I ain't gonna make a move unless I got I got a plan B
That'll happen the day I have a baby by free
Not to say that anything is wrong with free
Just to say that ain't nothing wrong with me
If my hands in the cookie jar, know one thing
I'ma take the cookie not leave my ring
If my hands in the cookie jar know one thing
I'ma take - y'all know what I mean
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
You little niggas ain't deep you dumb
You niggas ain't gangsta you gum
I chew little niggas
Hock-too, spew little niggas
I can only view little niggas like little niggas
But in lieu of little niggas trying to play that boy
I pkew pkew little niggas with the latest toy
Unlike you little nigga, I'm a grown ass man
Big shoes to fill nigga, grown ass pants
Prolly hustled with your pops, go ask your parents
Its apparent you're staring at a legend
Who, put a few little niggas in the they place before
Trying to eat without saying they grace before
Blasphemous bastard get your faith restored
You're viewing your version of the lord God
MC little nigga, applaud, or forever burn in the fire that I spit at y'all
I rebuke you little nigga
The meek shall perish, I'll roof you little nigga
I'm a project terrorist, cute you little niggas
Think you in my class, substitute little niggas soon feel my wrath
I mute you little niggas You a little nigga
I shall abuse you little nigga, I'm a ill nigga
Now shoot you little niggas
Go somewhere and play, 'cause the day I lose to you little niggas, no day
I try to pretend that I'm different, but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same (all the same)
I pray to god, father forgive a nigga, I'm never gonna change (never gonna change)
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Trouble Lyrics as written by Che Pope Andre Young
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