"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.
[Shanell]
Im calling your daddy
daddy
can you be my daddy
daddy
i need a daddy
daddy
could you be my daddy
daddy
come and make it wayne down on mee
come and make it wayne down on mee
[Lil Wayne]
uhh
wide receiver weezy
throw da pussy at me
ya pussy lips smilin
i make da pussy happy
take your panties off
the pussy lookin at me
im the pussy monster
now get the pussy ready
i like to kiss, she like to kiss
dat beef stroke, and make her bite her fist
the lights is on, the night is grown
we get it poppin cuz we know we can when wifey home
california kush strong as a tightness what im lighten on
we get high as fuck and we just do it put ya nikes on
tattoos on her waist she like the tattoos on my face
and if theres something she like to say i let her say it on my microphone
she love my style, but thats expected
she comin back to you, the chance is anorexic
i new she had it in her, so i got it out her
she give me neck around the clock i call it round a collar
she rub my back, she say im tight
she cook fucking clean
and still make her flight
first class pussy
crystal glass pussy
i get it wetter then bass pussy
(Shanell: you done be)
uhh
i like some chicken red
Ralph Lauren spread
lady in the streets
porn star in bed
she like to fuck fight
so we spar in bed
she got that pink pussy
i be the orange red
i fuck american pie
and i get foreign head
she sit down and ride
like im a thoroughbred
she kiss mine
and i kiss hers back
if shes a bad bitch
she deserve that
she send me pictures to my iphone
then i gotta clear em cuz my girl be checkin my phone
im in the buildin with the mind blown
and im in the pussy honey im home
[Shanell]
u done been good
but you can do better
i done been weighed
but i can get with her
come and make it way down on me
(yeh no ceilings muthafucka ahhh)
you done been good
but you can do better
i done been weighed
but i can get with her
come and make it way down on me
(yeahh i like that)
im calling you daddy
(her name shanell by the way)
daddy
can you be my daddy (young money)
daddy
i need a daddy (no ceilings)
daddy
would you be my daddy
daddy
come and make it way down on me (young mula baby)
come and make it way down on me (no ceilings muthafucka ahh)
Im calling your daddy
daddy
can you be my daddy
daddy
i need a daddy
daddy
could you be my daddy
daddy
come and make it wayne down on mee
come and make it wayne down on mee
[Lil Wayne]
uhh
wide receiver weezy
throw da pussy at me
ya pussy lips smilin
i make da pussy happy
take your panties off
the pussy lookin at me
im the pussy monster
now get the pussy ready
i like to kiss, she like to kiss
dat beef stroke, and make her bite her fist
the lights is on, the night is grown
we get it poppin cuz we know we can when wifey home
california kush strong as a tightness what im lighten on
we get high as fuck and we just do it put ya nikes on
tattoos on her waist she like the tattoos on my face
and if theres something she like to say i let her say it on my microphone
she love my style, but thats expected
she comin back to you, the chance is anorexic
i new she had it in her, so i got it out her
she give me neck around the clock i call it round a collar
she rub my back, she say im tight
she cook fucking clean
and still make her flight
first class pussy
crystal glass pussy
i get it wetter then bass pussy
(Shanell: you done be)
uhh
i like some chicken red
Ralph Lauren spread
lady in the streets
porn star in bed
she like to fuck fight
so we spar in bed
she got that pink pussy
i be the orange red
i fuck american pie
and i get foreign head
she sit down and ride
like im a thoroughbred
she kiss mine
and i kiss hers back
if shes a bad bitch
she deserve that
she send me pictures to my iphone
then i gotta clear em cuz my girl be checkin my phone
im in the buildin with the mind blown
and im in the pussy honey im home
[Shanell]
u done been good
but you can do better
i done been weighed
but i can get with her
come and make it way down on me
(yeh no ceilings muthafucka ahhh)
you done been good
but you can do better
i done been weighed
but i can get with her
come and make it way down on me
(yeahh i like that)
im calling you daddy
(her name shanell by the way)
daddy
can you be my daddy (young money)
daddy
i need a daddy (no ceilings)
daddy
would you be my daddy
daddy
come and make it way down on me (young mula baby)
come and make it way down on me (no ceilings muthafucka ahh)
Lyrics submitted by lookinginward, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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