"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.
[Swizz Beatz]
Woo yeah, yeah
Excuse me, is that candy paint?
Them bone boys is back
Cleveland!
Full surface!
[Chorus]
Rollin, rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
What you say?
I I I I I lohuhuhuhuve you
My Impala sittin' on them two fours
I I I I I lohuhuhuhuve you
My Cutless with them suicide doors
[Swizz Beatz]
Move out my way
Move out out
Nigga move out my way
Move out my way
Wait a minute now
Hold a second now
Wait a minute now
Ride on 'em!
[Krayzie Bone]
Here come grandaddy always classin' ain't no nigga badda than that
They know I'm gangsta twenty four on my black Cadillac
And as a matter of fact, flipped it and dipped it in some candy paint
Suckas get mad cause they can't
[Layzie Bone]
Your boy lil' Layzie comin' through all in that black Monte Carlo
I'm swtichin' lanes, givin' lanes like it ain't no tomorrow
I'm a tryna get around cars with no regards for this traffic
Look how I yank it, yeah I yank it makin' it look like it's magic
[Wish Bone]
If you see that dash strong ya know what to do, ya know what to do, ya know what to do
We was fittin' to roll not gon let me roll ?? watchin' for them popos mashin' down that seventy one
[Chorus]
[Wish Bone]
Stomp it bash it with my 350 rocket, Cutless
White on white it's tight from bumper to bumper can't touch this
For a little for juice I supercharge it
Yea his rides tight but ain't tight like mine cause we workin' on different ??
[Krayzie Bone]
I swing my doors open, my doors open
My niggas out in Cleveland swing them doors open, doors open
Big bumps, big bumps big trunks
Try to let off take it to the other side
Lets get high, pimpin' while I'm deep into my vibe
[Layzie Bone]
I'ma come with the cleanest I ain't gon be seen with these niggas don't know who the team is
I love that I breath with Swizz and bone, nigga that's who
We is
Whatever the purpose it's full surface what chu call architects
To hard to check and if you don't move we startin' shit
[Chorus]
[Layzie Bone]
Gotta have it nigga my weapon is automatic nigga
Nigga stepped his game up when he came up should have thought about it nigga
Cause these twenty four inches spinnin' is usually good for makin' they heads twirl
Just try to be nigga when I journey this world
[Krayzie Bone]
Switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes
We rollin' through your hood like bone thug
And I doubt if we ever need a gangbang it's because
[Chorus]
Woo yeah, yeah
Excuse me, is that candy paint?
Them bone boys is back
Cleveland!
Full surface!
[Chorus]
Rollin, rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hey keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
What you say?
I I I I I lohuhuhuhuve you
My Impala sittin' on them two fours
I I I I I lohuhuhuhuve you
My Cutless with them suicide doors
[Swizz Beatz]
Move out my way
Move out out
Nigga move out my way
Move out my way
Wait a minute now
Hold a second now
Wait a minute now
Ride on 'em!
[Krayzie Bone]
Here come grandaddy always classin' ain't no nigga badda than that
They know I'm gangsta twenty four on my black Cadillac
And as a matter of fact, flipped it and dipped it in some candy paint
Suckas get mad cause they can't
[Layzie Bone]
Your boy lil' Layzie comin' through all in that black Monte Carlo
I'm swtichin' lanes, givin' lanes like it ain't no tomorrow
I'm a tryna get around cars with no regards for this traffic
Look how I yank it, yeah I yank it makin' it look like it's magic
[Wish Bone]
If you see that dash strong ya know what to do, ya know what to do, ya know what to do
We was fittin' to roll not gon let me roll ?? watchin' for them popos mashin' down that seventy one
[Chorus]
[Wish Bone]
Stomp it bash it with my 350 rocket, Cutless
White on white it's tight from bumper to bumper can't touch this
For a little for juice I supercharge it
Yea his rides tight but ain't tight like mine cause we workin' on different ??
[Krayzie Bone]
I swing my doors open, my doors open
My niggas out in Cleveland swing them doors open, doors open
Big bumps, big bumps big trunks
Try to let off take it to the other side
Lets get high, pimpin' while I'm deep into my vibe
[Layzie Bone]
I'ma come with the cleanest I ain't gon be seen with these niggas don't know who the team is
I love that I breath with Swizz and bone, nigga that's who
We is
Whatever the purpose it's full surface what chu call architects
To hard to check and if you don't move we startin' shit
[Chorus]
[Layzie Bone]
Gotta have it nigga my weapon is automatic nigga
Nigga stepped his game up when he came up should have thought about it nigga
Cause these twenty four inches spinnin' is usually good for makin' they heads twirl
Just try to be nigga when I journey this world
[Krayzie Bone]
Switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes, pimpin', switchin' lanes
We rollin' through your hood like bone thug
And I doubt if we ever need a gangbang it's because
[Chorus]
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Candy Paint Lyrics as written by Charles Scruggs Anthony Henderson
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