"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.
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
It's 1993 and niggas need to miss me, be savin' these hoes
You know how these tricks be, be buyin' 'em clothes
Wanna taxi hoes on vogues with the beat
And have 'em sittin' next to 'em in the front seat
But not B, see, I'm a hog up out the V
And my motto, is fuck a ho and hit the throttle
To the smoke, talkin' on my okie-doke
Worldwide I got a Clydes' up in Tokyo
Look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane
What's that nigga's name?
Captain save a ho, mayne
More faster than a speedin' bullet
To put on his cape his card, I pulled it
fake the fake, the funk the funk
Not me, that's not the way to do it
Captain, mothrefuckin', Save A Hoe came to me
Flashin' just like a little ol' bitch
All up in front of my company
Had to check his ass with an ear check thump and punked him
Talkin' to him while I'm beatin' his ass, pumpin' fear
Talkin' bout, "Nigga, you gon' retrospect somethin' here?"
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Mr. Super trick, Mr. Super snitch
Yeah, you wanna kill me 'cause I fucked ya bitch
You shoulda your cape on tight that night
'Cause a nigga like the Shot, sure plugs 'em right
And now yo' bitch is straight callin' me, lovin' me
On the under for the porno star that I be (that's right)
And don't you come in my face with that trick shit
(don't come with that shit, don't come with that shit, man)
You better try some more shit
I got the gift to grab any bitch that I want but I don't
'Cause bitches now a days'll get you caught up in some funk
Oh no, I'm not tryna save you hoes and
How come when I was broke you wasn't brown nosin'?
The other day you see me smobbin' down Magazine
With some ol' nigga in your car lookin' at me mean
I stopped in the middle of the street
Reached under seat to grab my heat
Man, this the same motherfucker
That I got into it with at the club last week
Man, them niggas can't fade, they bitch made and so they start
But niggas with no heart, don't want no parts of this
Nigga rollin' with the Funk Mobb (the Funk Mobb)
And when it's funk, the pump'll spit them double-aughts
So what you doin' when we roll through your hideout? (hideout, hideout, hideout)
Let my MAC get off and then I rides out
With your ass there smokin' like an incense
You savin' hoes, nigga, and that's bitch shit
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
I'm crossin' up niggas and bitches
And even snitches just for my riches
Captain Save A Hoe
I ain't got no problem with that ol shit (mm-hmm)
I gives a damn as long as he's payin'
It ain't my fault because he's sprung off my layin'
I'm takin' GA checks, go to the bank Hank
If your breath stank, you get ganked, mayne
Long as a trick comes fallin' down
That gets me all the sets to put on my suit and clown (check it)
But make that nigga take care your kids
Make that nigga call your kids his (uh)
Make that nigga get out there and work
Make his ass buy you a Dooney and Burke
It's all part of that, "Nigga, take care of me
Pussy-whipped nigga, come save me"
Bitches out there be on the look out
For Captain Save A Hoe
'Cause he's savin' hoes
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
Fuck that, what they talkin' about
I'll save a ho, hahaha
Yeah, baby, what's up?
You wanna get your nails done?
Come on let's go down to Lee to Kim Nail's, yeah, haha
We'll get your nails done, get your hair done
What about your kids? How many kids you got? Two?
Ah, that's cool, yeah we can go feed and clothe them kids
We'll get to go down and get the hook up at Durant Square
Yeah, baby, I'll do anything for ya
Want your phone turned on?
I can get it turned on to my name
Matter of fact, I'll get you a cellular phone and a pager
We can get that package deal down there at, uh, Cellular One
Baby, I'm- I'm here for you, I got you
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
It's 1993 and niggas need to miss me, be savin' these hoes
You know how these tricks be, be buyin' 'em clothes
Wanna taxi hoes on vogues with the beat
And have 'em sittin' next to 'em in the front seat
But not B, see, I'm a hog up out the V
And my motto, is fuck a ho and hit the throttle
To the smoke, talkin' on my okie-doke
Worldwide I got a Clydes' up in Tokyo
Look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane
What's that nigga's name?
Captain save a ho, mayne
More faster than a speedin' bullet
To put on his cape his card, I pulled it
fake the fake, the funk the funk
Not me, that's not the way to do it
Captain, mothrefuckin', Save A Hoe came to me
Flashin' just like a little ol' bitch
All up in front of my company
Had to check his ass with an ear check thump and punked him
Talkin' to him while I'm beatin' his ass, pumpin' fear
Talkin' bout, "Nigga, you gon' retrospect somethin' here?"
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Mr. Super trick, Mr. Super snitch
Yeah, you wanna kill me 'cause I fucked ya bitch
You shoulda your cape on tight that night
'Cause a nigga like the Shot, sure plugs 'em right
And now yo' bitch is straight callin' me, lovin' me
On the under for the porno star that I be (that's right)
And don't you come in my face with that trick shit
(don't come with that shit, don't come with that shit, man)
You better try some more shit
I got the gift to grab any bitch that I want but I don't
'Cause bitches now a days'll get you caught up in some funk
Oh no, I'm not tryna save you hoes and
How come when I was broke you wasn't brown nosin'?
The other day you see me smobbin' down Magazine
With some ol' nigga in your car lookin' at me mean
I stopped in the middle of the street
Reached under seat to grab my heat
Man, this the same motherfucker
That I got into it with at the club last week
Man, them niggas can't fade, they bitch made and so they start
But niggas with no heart, don't want no parts of this
Nigga rollin' with the Funk Mobb (the Funk Mobb)
And when it's funk, the pump'll spit them double-aughts
So what you doin' when we roll through your hideout? (hideout, hideout, hideout)
Let my MAC get off and then I rides out
With your ass there smokin' like an incense
You savin' hoes, nigga, and that's bitch shit
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
I'm crossin' up niggas and bitches
And even snitches just for my riches
Captain Save A Hoe
I ain't got no problem with that ol shit (mm-hmm)
I gives a damn as long as he's payin'
It ain't my fault because he's sprung off my layin'
I'm takin' GA checks, go to the bank Hank
If your breath stank, you get ganked, mayne
Long as a trick comes fallin' down
That gets me all the sets to put on my suit and clown (check it)
But make that nigga take care your kids
Make that nigga call your kids his (uh)
Make that nigga get out there and work
Make his ass buy you a Dooney and Burke
It's all part of that, "Nigga, take care of me
Pussy-whipped nigga, come save me"
Bitches out there be on the look out
For Captain Save A Hoe
'Cause he's savin' hoes
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
Uh-iz-I, uh-iz-I, should I save her?
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
I wanna be saved
Fuck that, what they talkin' about
I'll save a ho, hahaha
Yeah, baby, what's up?
You wanna get your nails done?
Come on let's go down to Lee to Kim Nail's, yeah, haha
We'll get your nails done, get your hair done
What about your kids? How many kids you got? Two?
Ah, that's cool, yeah we can go feed and clothe them kids
We'll get to go down and get the hook up at Durant Square
Yeah, baby, I'll do anything for ya
Want your phone turned on?
I can get it turned on to my name
Matter of fact, I'll get you a cellular phone and a pager
We can get that package deal down there at, uh, Cellular One
Baby, I'm- I'm here for you, I got you
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Captain Save a Hoe Lyrics as written by Danell Stevens Brandt Jones
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