"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.
Mmm
Yeah
Yeah yeah
Uhh uhh
Yeah uhh yeah (yeah yeah yeah)
Aye 4 Rings on my coupe ouu it’s a Audi
Someone tell these fuck niggas stay far from round me (Far from round me)
Aye if I need a lawyer call Mike Lowry and Guadi
Need me a mansion built in the Saudi (Build it)
I can see the hate they 'tryna down me
Hear they waiting for me to drop like now please (Aye 'K now)
Miami booling up on South Beach
Shoes off at the door before you walk inside my house please (Inside my house please)
Told myself I was gonna see better times (Times)
So now I’m seeing better times (Yeah)
'Ima stone cold stunner (Yeah)
Take off with her in the back no 'longa
I wanna ride in my S5 not no Honda
Wicked one on my left no Kensuike Honda
Just met this bachelor I’m feeling honoured
No I’m not from Wales but this fit came from Bonner
You girls be crazy (Woo)
If were Mario you wouldn’t be my Daisy (Crazy)
Yeah see through the hazy
'Cause my third eyes working it’s not lazy
I be thinking maybe (Be)
I can teach you style but only if you pay me (50 racks now)
Through life I’m pacing
Only me against myself i’m not racing (Usain ting)
Aye 4 Rings on my coupe ouu it’s a Audi (Yeah)
Someone tell these fuck niggas stay far from round me (Don't come here)
Yeah if I need a lawyer call Mike Lowry and Guadi
Need me a mansion built in the Saudi
Aye I can see the hate they 'tryna down me
Hear they waiting for me to drop like now please (I'm riding)
Miami booling up on South Beach
Shoes off at the door before you walk inside my house please (Can't you see the carpet)
Get this shit off my chest
No way to digest
This ain’t chequers this is chess (This is chess)
People keep techs full of lead (Pew pew pew)
If I aim for net (That's a goal yeah)
It’s getting sold unlike a let (That's a house yeah)
I like a plain Patek (On my wrist yeah)
Gang got rose gold chains for respect (This shit is bliss yeah)
Yeah
Yeah yeah
Uhh uhh
Yeah uhh yeah (yeah yeah yeah)
Aye 4 Rings on my coupe ouu it’s a Audi
Someone tell these fuck niggas stay far from round me (Far from round me)
Aye if I need a lawyer call Mike Lowry and Guadi
Need me a mansion built in the Saudi (Build it)
I can see the hate they 'tryna down me
Hear they waiting for me to drop like now please (Aye 'K now)
Miami booling up on South Beach
Shoes off at the door before you walk inside my house please (Inside my house please)
Told myself I was gonna see better times (Times)
So now I’m seeing better times (Yeah)
'Ima stone cold stunner (Yeah)
Take off with her in the back no 'longa
I wanna ride in my S5 not no Honda
Wicked one on my left no Kensuike Honda
Just met this bachelor I’m feeling honoured
No I’m not from Wales but this fit came from Bonner
You girls be crazy (Woo)
If were Mario you wouldn’t be my Daisy (Crazy)
Yeah see through the hazy
'Cause my third eyes working it’s not lazy
I be thinking maybe (Be)
I can teach you style but only if you pay me (50 racks now)
Through life I’m pacing
Only me against myself i’m not racing (Usain ting)
Aye 4 Rings on my coupe ouu it’s a Audi (Yeah)
Someone tell these fuck niggas stay far from round me (Don't come here)
Yeah if I need a lawyer call Mike Lowry and Guadi
Need me a mansion built in the Saudi
Aye I can see the hate they 'tryna down me
Hear they waiting for me to drop like now please (I'm riding)
Miami booling up on South Beach
Shoes off at the door before you walk inside my house please (Can't you see the carpet)
Get this shit off my chest
No way to digest
This ain’t chequers this is chess (This is chess)
People keep techs full of lead (Pew pew pew)
If I aim for net (That's a goal yeah)
It’s getting sold unlike a let (That's a house yeah)
I like a plain Patek (On my wrist yeah)
Gang got rose gold chains for respect (This shit is bliss yeah)
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Pretty obvious story I think. Ex bf/gf that just calls and doesn't say anything. Obsessively in love, even after it's over. After some time this love turns into hate. Horrible, don't ever let that happen to you.
Why doesn't this song have any comments?.. I Love it! haha, great song. In a tie with Grace Kelly as my favourite by him! I think i totally agree with what MavDude said, including the advice. I wouldn't want to be the person being sung about!
i'm sad to say, that i've actually felt this way before. eekk.
this song really reminds me of my friend, she has liked this boy for over 2 yrs and he really doesnt like her but has told her he want 2 be good friends, when he really doesnt. I really want 2 tell her but i dont know how because it will break her heart. I hope pinaichicka08 is feeling better now :D xxx
Why is there no comments yet about the woman speaking at the end? The accent is soooo heavy I can get all the words? What is she saying about her "eye's being taken" or something like that?
I think there was an interview about how he knew someone who was in a war or something and she actually got her eyes taken. I think its awful but its nice that he cares for these people...
Easily one of the standout tracks on the album. It's almost as if Freddie Mercury and Elton John had a child who was raised on nothing but Twilight Singers. It's an impossibility, i know, but that's what it seems like.
Does this remind anyone else of the Killers?
Does this remind anyone else of the Killers?
As far as I can tell, the woman's speaking part at the end goes like this:
"Same day I wanted dress for wedding...Same day while I want married...when he's married (somewhere), I am very very sad...I can't walk...(something about her legs)...how he's married different lady...I no believe...after one month, I am sent out in balcony, someone come for my eyes...my eyes gone...my eyes gone and from now, I have only one eyes...I am sad until now, I no married any man after..."
thats as much as I can tell from listening to it. if anyone has any corrections thats fine b/c it's really hard for me to understand what she's saying