"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.
Jah! Rastafarianism
Yes I, Ras Trent
Ba-da ding-ding-ding-ding whoa!
Who dem?
You no want test me champion sound
Oh fire pon Babylon
And fire pon a batty boy
Rude boy living in the shanty dorms
My roommate Nick is an ignorant ball head!
Now chant down Babylon
Midterm essays
Then puff from de chalice
I fi make from a Sprite can
Last week I read a book
About Selassie I
Then told my bomboclat parents
I was switching religions
Excuse I!
Oh hot stepper, you do so many dutty crimes
Nyabinghi!
And plus you're fully skylarking all the time
Unu look ya now!
Have you ever noticed
How ball-heads suck?
Ba-da-da ding-ding-ding-ding
Dong-dang ding-dong duck!
Excuse I for my skanking
Give thanks and praise
Me toil part-time
At jah Cold Stone Creamery
In a dub style!
Roller skates...a DVD of Cool Runnings, Murder, She Wrote
Yagga-yagga-yagga yowwww!
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Please guide me pon your bike path of righteousness
Oh stannaho, stannaho, stannaho, stannahoy Jaaaah!
Fussing and fighting and Zion and Roots
Red Stripe, Shabba, Ragamuffin and culture
Me night nurse never want to plant de corn
Skiddily-whoa
Diddily, skiddily diddily diddily
Yes I, Ras Trent
Ba-da ding-ding-ding-ding whoa!
Who dem?
You no want test me champion sound
Oh fire pon Babylon
And fire pon a batty boy
Rude boy living in the shanty dorms
My roommate Nick is an ignorant ball head!
Now chant down Babylon
Midterm essays
Then puff from de chalice
I fi make from a Sprite can
Last week I read a book
About Selassie I
Then told my bomboclat parents
I was switching religions
Excuse I!
Oh hot stepper, you do so many dutty crimes
Nyabinghi!
And plus you're fully skylarking all the time
Unu look ya now!
Have you ever noticed
How ball-heads suck?
Ba-da-da ding-ding-ding-ding
Dong-dang ding-dong duck!
Excuse I for my skanking
Give thanks and praise
Me toil part-time
At jah Cold Stone Creamery
In a dub style!
Roller skates...a DVD of Cool Runnings, Murder, She Wrote
Yagga-yagga-yagga yowwww!
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Are you there Jah? It's me, Ras Trent
Please guide me pon your bike path of righteousness
Oh stannaho, stannaho, stannaho, stannahoy Jaaaah!
Fussing and fighting and Zion and Roots
Red Stripe, Shabba, Ragamuffin and culture
Me night nurse never want to plant de corn
Skiddily-whoa
Diddily, skiddily diddily diddily
Lyrics submitted by Deflection1
Ras Trent Lyrics as written by Andrew D. Samberg Akiva Schaffer
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Mountain Song
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
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No one has said it yet, so I will. While Petary is right about why this song should be appreciated, it's ABOUT that guy/group on every college campus.
The fake rastas. The smelly white dudes with nasty dreads.
He's making fun of the many American High School and College aged "rebels" who claim Rastafarianism as their religion when really they're just trying to be rebellious and their lives don't represent what a real Rastafarian life should look like.
I think this song is so underrated! The first time I heard it in the Digital Short on SNL I was like, "Wtf? This is dumb." And then the more I listened to it, the more hilarious it got.
One thing though, the line where he mumbles when he walks past the real Rastas is 'please guide me pon your bike path of righteousness.'
thanks, just listened to it again and you're right
I nearly fell off my chair the first time I saw the mumbling scene. This song is the national anthem of white Trustafarian pathetism.
"Murder She Wrote" is a reference to the Chaka Demus and Pliers song. youtube.com/watch
A dvd of cool runnings! LMAO!
This song is way easier to appreciate if you listen to a lot of reggae already. Andy manages to touch on just about every generic reggae topic and word in this song. Hats off to him. I wish the song was longer!
Oh and the best part about him saying "Rastafarianism" is the fact that Rastas don't believe in "isms".
Hell, just hearing Jacob from GTAIV talk was enough for me to laugh my ass off because of Andy's blatant whiteness.
rofl petary791 got it down
I'm half Jamaican and ROFL when I saw this video. Plus Andy looks so friggin' good as Ras Trent.
Correction: "Unnu look ya now!" should be "Good Look Out Now" -- it's a Jamaican expression meaning "Good looking out for me" - giving thanks for someone having your back or helping/protecting you. He might be thanking Jah or just using hip Jamaican slang he learned in college.
i'm also half jamaican and as soon as i heard JAHHHHHHH! i was dying this song is the jamaican culture packed into 2 minutes. hilarious tune.great album.
"Ba-da ding-ding-ding-ding whooaaaaa!" "A DVD of Cool Runnings!" OMG. Fucking Epic.