"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.
She work it girl, she work the pole
She break it down, she take it low
She fine as hell, she about the dough
She doing her thing out on the floor
Her money money, she makin'
Look at the way she shakin'
Make you want to touch her, want to taste her
Have you lustin' for her,
Go crazy face it
She's so much more than you're used to
Knows just how to move to seduce you
She gone do the right thing and touch the right spot
Dance in you're lap till you're ready to pop
She always ready, when you want it she want it
Like a nympho, the info
Show you where to meet her
On the late night, till daylight the club jumpin'
If you want a good time, she gone give you what you want
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smoke's got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here,
You got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology,
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
In her fantasy, there's plain to see
Just how it be, on me, backstrokin',
Sweat soaking
All into my set sheets
When she ready to ride, I'm ready to roll
I'll be in this bitch till the club close
What should I do, on all fours
Now that that shit should be against the law
Different style, different move,
Damn I like the way you move
Girl you got me thinking about,
All the things I'd do to you
Let's get it poppin' shorty
We can switch positions
From the couch to the counters in my kitchen
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smokes got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here, you got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology,
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
Ooh she wants it, ooh she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
She wants it, hmm she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
I got to give it to her
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smoke's got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here, you got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
She break it down, she take it low
She fine as hell, she about the dough
She doing her thing out on the floor
Her money money, she makin'
Look at the way she shakin'
Make you want to touch her, want to taste her
Have you lustin' for her,
Go crazy face it
She's so much more than you're used to
Knows just how to move to seduce you
She gone do the right thing and touch the right spot
Dance in you're lap till you're ready to pop
She always ready, when you want it she want it
Like a nympho, the info
Show you where to meet her
On the late night, till daylight the club jumpin'
If you want a good time, she gone give you what you want
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smoke's got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here,
You got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology,
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
In her fantasy, there's plain to see
Just how it be, on me, backstrokin',
Sweat soaking
All into my set sheets
When she ready to ride, I'm ready to roll
I'll be in this bitch till the club close
What should I do, on all fours
Now that that shit should be against the law
Different style, different move,
Damn I like the way you move
Girl you got me thinking about,
All the things I'd do to you
Let's get it poppin' shorty
We can switch positions
From the couch to the counters in my kitchen
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smokes got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here, you got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology,
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
Ooh she wants it, ooh she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
She wants it, hmm she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
I got to give it to her
Baby it's a new age,
You like my new craze
Let's get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smoke's got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don't do you justice baby
Why don't you come over here, you got me saying
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
Why don't you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me
Lyrics submitted by ANOUKoldfashioned, edited by lize
Ayo Technology Lyrics as written by Curtis James Jackson Justin R Timberlake
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Anthem Entertainment, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Cool song anyways, I like Milow's version better than the original tho...
And of course the "technology"-part is meaning porn. He's tired of porn, he want the stripper, pornstar, or whatever in real life :P