"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.
Shake your tambourine go and get yourself a whistle and [Repeat: x3]
Shake your tambourine go and [Repeat: x2]
Shake your tambourine go and get yourself a whistle and [Repeat: x8]
E.V.E. come through in the Mazarati
Doin it big like I live in the Taj Mahal,
Talk shit, and I don't get in the bla the bla
Ha, thats why they loving, ahh
Dats real, when the chick that they talk about
Goddamn is the words that come out they mouth
She look good always, without a doubt
Ask for her, she back and caking ou
So they be watching while we wiggle around
Look at them drooling, niggas ain't used to dis sound
I keep em moving, all ma ladies put ya hands in the air
It's all right now we gonna keep you on ya feet the whole night now
Pop them bottles, yea drink that up man
Got you feeling crazy yea that was the plan
Waiting for me wasn't ready for dis
He got the game sewn up, know I'm talking bout Swizz
Yeah I know u wanna fight it but why would you try
We got them shaking everything from the hood to Dubai
Yea we do it big man why would we lie?
C'mon
(1, 2, 3 everybody!)
Get low, get low then pick up, pick up
Get your hands in the air it's a stick-up, stick-up
Shake your tambourines move it quicker, quicker
Shake it down in town get the pitch up, pitch up
Shake it shake it to the floor, gotta love that
How she keep it goin' on you know you love that
Shake it shake it to the floor you gotta love that
Get ya ass on the dance floor
Dance on the dance floor
Move em out the way
If they ain't doing it how you want y'all
You ain't gotta ask me
C'mon, don't need my permission
Y'all heard, what you waiting for?
Shake your tambourine go and get yourself a whistle and [Repeat: x4]
Shake your tambourine go and [Repeat: x2]
Shake your tambourine go and get yourself a whistle and [Repeat: x8]
E.V.E. come through in the Mazarati
Doin it big like I live in the Taj Mahal,
Talk shit, and I don't get in the bla the bla
Ha, thats why they loving, ahh
Dats real, when the chick that they talk about
Goddamn is the words that come out they mouth
She look good always, without a doubt
Ask for her, she back and caking ou
So they be watching while we wiggle around
Look at them drooling, niggas ain't used to dis sound
I keep em moving, all ma ladies put ya hands in the air
It's all right now we gonna keep you on ya feet the whole night now
Pop them bottles, yea drink that up man
Got you feeling crazy yea that was the plan
Waiting for me wasn't ready for dis
He got the game sewn up, know I'm talking bout Swizz
Yeah I know u wanna fight it but why would you try
We got them shaking everything from the hood to Dubai
Yea we do it big man why would we lie?
C'mon
(1, 2, 3 everybody!)
Get low, get low then pick up, pick up
Get your hands in the air it's a stick-up, stick-up
Shake your tambourines move it quicker, quicker
Shake it down in town get the pitch up, pitch up
Shake it shake it to the floor, gotta love that
How she keep it goin' on you know you love that
Shake it shake it to the floor you gotta love that
Get ya ass on the dance floor
Dance on the dance floor
Move em out the way
If they ain't doing it how you want y'all
You ain't gotta ask me
C'mon, don't need my permission
Y'all heard, what you waiting for?
Shake your tambourine go and get yourself a whistle and [Repeat: x4]
Lyrics submitted by kooky-gurl
Tambourine Lyrics as written by Charles Brown Carl Kidd
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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