"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.
Oh another one of those songs huh?
Beautiful day!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
This is your, this is your song
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you
Couldn't be wrong
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
Aiiyo Mike, yeah
Remember back in the day?
We never smoked weed, never rapped in this way
We had so much energy, ambition to play
Yeah we was hitten the wits
And tryin to live everyday to the fullest
Weed was some bullshit to my peeps
Till we stole it
Locked in the Honda and rolled it
We smoked out, no doubt we got blazed
Remember that? I used your hat as the ashtray!
And that was the last day I'd ever be sober
Consensing life as I knew it was over (Yeah me too)
It's so much better now
My vision is clear but my eyes seem redder now
It's so great when I wake up and puke up A pile
Wipe my face with a towel
It's Sickening...
Yo sometimes I smoke so much my eyes close shut
I'm always hungry and I can't seem to eat enough
Times it's rough, A partners life is tough
But as soon as I'm waking up I'm in my room taking a puff
Oh, good morning world...
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you
Couldn't be wrong
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
Ayo now weed is not a bad thing, It's a good thing
A neighbourhood thing, so much joy that it could bring
Kinda like the time your girl taught you a lesson
Dump chuck and you ended up on anti-depressants
Yeah man, That was stressin
Ended up in the mental clinic, doc said I had to finish
With the weed game and everything that's in it
But I didn't so I'm livin in this world filled with misery
Weed seems to get to me,
Better leave and let it be
I can't believe that I ever put that shit in me
Man that shits nothin to me anymore
Wassup, You wanna smoked this joint?
Naw, I can't stand that
Yo one time I was in Curley's, The old back pub
We was smokin in the bathroom till the bouncer broke it up
Kicked me out for smokin dope,
I'd stop, holy fuck
it's just weed, It's not like I'm throwin up
Oh well, Now I'm in the parkin lot waitin by myself
Hear my name get called inside go win a trip down south
Thought to myself I gotta quit this weed
But we all know Class' would be blazed by three
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you,
Don't be wrong,
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you,
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you,
Don't be wrong,
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
It's sickening!
Beautiful day!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
This is your, this is your song
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you
Couldn't be wrong
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
Aiiyo Mike, yeah
Remember back in the day?
We never smoked weed, never rapped in this way
We had so much energy, ambition to play
Yeah we was hitten the wits
And tryin to live everyday to the fullest
Weed was some bullshit to my peeps
Till we stole it
Locked in the Honda and rolled it
We smoked out, no doubt we got blazed
Remember that? I used your hat as the ashtray!
And that was the last day I'd ever be sober
Consensing life as I knew it was over (Yeah me too)
It's so much better now
My vision is clear but my eyes seem redder now
It's so great when I wake up and puke up A pile
Wipe my face with a towel
It's Sickening...
Yo sometimes I smoke so much my eyes close shut
I'm always hungry and I can't seem to eat enough
Times it's rough, A partners life is tough
But as soon as I'm waking up I'm in my room taking a puff
Oh, good morning world...
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you
Couldn't be wrong
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
Ayo now weed is not a bad thing, It's a good thing
A neighbourhood thing, so much joy that it could bring
Kinda like the time your girl taught you a lesson
Dump chuck and you ended up on anti-depressants
Yeah man, That was stressin
Ended up in the mental clinic, doc said I had to finish
With the weed game and everything that's in it
But I didn't so I'm livin in this world filled with misery
Weed seems to get to me,
Better leave and let it be
I can't believe that I ever put that shit in me
Man that shits nothin to me anymore
Wassup, You wanna smoked this joint?
Naw, I can't stand that
Yo one time I was in Curley's, The old back pub
We was smokin in the bathroom till the bouncer broke it up
Kicked me out for smokin dope,
I'd stop, holy fuck
it's just weed, It's not like I'm throwin up
Oh well, Now I'm in the parkin lot waitin by myself
Hear my name get called inside go win a trip down south
Thought to myself I gotta quit this weed
But we all know Class' would be blazed by three
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you,
Don't be wrong,
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you,
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I eat my weed,
It's sickening!
I smoke my weed,
I love my weed,
I sleep with my weed,
It's sickening!
This is your, this is your song,
Yes I'm telling the world there's no living without you,
Don't be wrong,
Cause I wake up every morning thinking about you
It's sickening!
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