"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.
50 Cent is my favourite rapper in the whole world
Not because of the rhymes or the shoes or the stuff that he does
He owns
I just think we'd get along
And make 400 million
No matter what you could pretty much be okay for the rest of your life
Then he bought a boat
Could have bought a goddamn tv station
And if I don't get my hands on him soon
If I don't get some bling of my own
And get straight out of this town
And start again new
I need 50 Cent
I want to be 50 Cent
Regardless of his vitamin water campaign
Just think he's a cool guy that I'd like to hang out with
who knows we should grab a drink maybe a beer
If you don't drink beer than coffee
No not coffee either then tea
Or something like that
Cuz I got your first record
Don't think anythings done as well since then
That just seems to be how it goes
So don't get bummed out...
'Cause even if your raps don't sell out,
You've still got,like, half a billion fucking dollars.
So try to be cool, and call me back.
I've left you seven messages since we've met outside the El Rey in Los Angeles.
I think you were busy, I don't know.
You were holding your Sidekick telephone.
When I bumped into you, I dropped it in my glass of Coke.
Your bodyguards beat the fuck out of me...
And that part of that Los Angeles trip sucked...
Not because of the rhymes or the shoes or the stuff that he does
He owns
I just think we'd get along
And make 400 million
No matter what you could pretty much be okay for the rest of your life
Then he bought a boat
Could have bought a goddamn tv station
And if I don't get my hands on him soon
If I don't get some bling of my own
And get straight out of this town
And start again new
I need 50 Cent
I want to be 50 Cent
Regardless of his vitamin water campaign
Just think he's a cool guy that I'd like to hang out with
who knows we should grab a drink maybe a beer
If you don't drink beer than coffee
No not coffee either then tea
Or something like that
Cuz I got your first record
Don't think anythings done as well since then
That just seems to be how it goes
So don't get bummed out...
'Cause even if your raps don't sell out,
You've still got,like, half a billion fucking dollars.
So try to be cool, and call me back.
I've left you seven messages since we've met outside the El Rey in Los Angeles.
I think you were busy, I don't know.
You were holding your Sidekick telephone.
When I bumped into you, I dropped it in my glass of Coke.
Your bodyguards beat the fuck out of me...
And that part of that Los Angeles trip sucked...
Lyrics submitted by Miki-Kiwa
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