"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.
It's a small minded world in the middle of a crowd
The room is fucking dark and the musics loud
Sleeves cut through and they don't say goodbye
But there's no room to run cause the floor is packed tight
A voice shouts loud, "Never Surrender"
A voice in the crowd, "Never Surrender"
A howl in the crowd getting louder and louder
"Never Surrender", "We'll Never Surrender"
Girls in their short skirts are running at the bar
While they're nodding along to Jamie T's bass guitar
It's so fucking hot the walls are dripping sweat
The boys in the corner are fucked off their heads
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Dancing with the rude bois [x2]
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Some boys roll in with their hats pulled down
They ain't from around here, they're not from my town
The lights flicker when the girls start screaming
Hats covered in blood and the boys not breathing
A voice shouts loud, "Never Surrender"
A voice in the crowd, "Never Surrender"
A howl in the crowd getting louder and louder
"Never Surrender", "We'll Never Surrender"
[Bizzle]
Yeah; The Bizzle
Same shit different day but they call them urban soldiers
Lil kids with big revolvers repping post codes on their shoulders
You with no respect for olders, money, guns, range rovers
By then when your game is over mommy crying on the sofa
And that's the way it is, I'm not saying that it's right
But these streets are so fucked you gotta stick with a shank tonight
Pray tomorrow will be alright, try and avoid another fight
But if it's all fuck it
I'll never surrender
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Dancing with the rude bois [x2]
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
The room is fucking dark and the musics loud
Sleeves cut through and they don't say goodbye
But there's no room to run cause the floor is packed tight
A voice shouts loud, "Never Surrender"
A voice in the crowd, "Never Surrender"
A howl in the crowd getting louder and louder
"Never Surrender", "We'll Never Surrender"
Girls in their short skirts are running at the bar
While they're nodding along to Jamie T's bass guitar
It's so fucking hot the walls are dripping sweat
The boys in the corner are fucked off their heads
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Dancing with the rude bois [x2]
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Some boys roll in with their hats pulled down
They ain't from around here, they're not from my town
The lights flicker when the girls start screaming
Hats covered in blood and the boys not breathing
A voice shouts loud, "Never Surrender"
A voice in the crowd, "Never Surrender"
A howl in the crowd getting louder and louder
"Never Surrender", "We'll Never Surrender"
[Bizzle]
Yeah; The Bizzle
Same shit different day but they call them urban soldiers
Lil kids with big revolvers repping post codes on their shoulders
You with no respect for olders, money, guns, range rovers
By then when your game is over mommy crying on the sofa
And that's the way it is, I'm not saying that it's right
But these streets are so fucked you gotta stick with a shank tonight
Pray tomorrow will be alright, try and avoid another fight
But if it's all fuck it
I'll never surrender
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
Dancing with the rude bois [x2]
Staring at the rude bois [x2]
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Great version of a great song,
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richfrmblacklist is right, this song fucking sucks. They took a classic "fly under the radar" punk song, and turned it shit in so many ways. This song didn't need modernising, "Lethal Bizzle" will be a non-entity in 5 years time, as will all chavvy shit.
What the fuck's going on with all these shitty music hybrids? Everybody's so busy trying to make something unique that they forget there was nothing wrong with Punk, Rock or Metal on their own, you don't need some dipshit "rapper", or any of those shitty synthetic sound effects used in rave music/techno/other shit, it doesn't make it better, it doesn't make it original, it just makes it absolutely shit.
Eventually, we'll just combine every different kind of music to make something absolutely fucking wank.