"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.
And I am coming with the range
Not calling no names on P
But this them same boys they said would never reach the key
Met Mister E. and him and me decided we could win
We flipped the script and we bout to be legal kingpins
Up in the wind
That message sent from old Savannah
They down with me so I ain't got to call Atlanta
But if I do it ain't nothing but even worse for you
Go call your soldiers
Tell them to bring the hearse for you
Just call me and tell Peter I be the Peter of the cipher
Down South Georgia Boy
Pastor Troy pass the rifle
Any rival ain't no rival lest we make the rivalry
Having problems with my rifle
Y'all watch y'all enemies
Well cause
War has been declared
What's up
Cuz war has been declared
What's up
Cuz war has been declared
What's up
What y'all gone do
What y'all gone do
[Chorus:]
And I declare war
[Repeat 4x]
For my whole number connected
Bout to give life to all you punks
Y'all talk, we pop the trunk
Picture me and mine drunk
And crunk up cuz we mad
Ain't never had before we hooked
Time to pull a kick doe
Negro we wrote the hook
Shook the dice up
The price I pay
My navy still my bill
Say yall want to go to war
And that's ok cause now will
You know we filthy
Because to us no love was given
Somebody's gone come up missing
Drooooom, die quickly
[Chorus:]
I declare war
And I declare war
[Repeat x8]
Not calling no names on P
But this them same boys they said would never reach the key
Met Mister E. and him and me decided we could win
We flipped the script and we bout to be legal kingpins
Up in the wind
That message sent from old Savannah
They down with me so I ain't got to call Atlanta
But if I do it ain't nothing but even worse for you
Go call your soldiers
Tell them to bring the hearse for you
Just call me and tell Peter I be the Peter of the cipher
Down South Georgia Boy
Pastor Troy pass the rifle
Any rival ain't no rival lest we make the rivalry
Having problems with my rifle
Y'all watch y'all enemies
Well cause
War has been declared
What's up
Cuz war has been declared
What's up
Cuz war has been declared
What's up
What y'all gone do
What y'all gone do
[Chorus:]
And I declare war
[Repeat 4x]
For my whole number connected
Bout to give life to all you punks
Y'all talk, we pop the trunk
Picture me and mine drunk
And crunk up cuz we mad
Ain't never had before we hooked
Time to pull a kick doe
Negro we wrote the hook
Shook the dice up
The price I pay
My navy still my bill
Say yall want to go to war
And that's ok cause now will
You know we filthy
Because to us no love was given
Somebody's gone come up missing
Drooooom, die quickly
[Chorus:]
I declare war
And I declare war
[Repeat x8]
Lyrics submitted by p609
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