"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.
Sometimes you gotta pick sides
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes
It's the birth of a God
We be the Knights of the Round
Equipped to fight till you down
Let off infinite rounds we come with a frightening sound
Enemy skill, we gettin this gil up
Maxing all Materia and sell for a mill-ion
Silence a doubter and handle a coward
Snakes popping up daily like, random encounters
And my stigma is bizarro, you likely won't see tomorrow
We steal as well so Ante Up cause we ain't come to borrow
Aerith's gone so we gotta ride out
Center of the earth, send a rocket to his hide out
In a crater to the north, I display a little force
Separate the planet, leave you with no way to get across
Guess my minds playin tricks, cause the grind stay intense
But the God stay entrenched - so it's time they repent
Chalk it up, give the Soldier the win
Feel like it's 1997 all over again
GoD
Sometimes you gotta pick sides
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes
It's the birth of a God
They call me Vincent Valentine awaken from a dream
You're looking for an answer and nothings what it seems
Your searching for Sephiroth and you need my help
I can sense the energy a power never felt
Dr. Hojo is the man that you're looking for
I been looking for him too what's the plan say no more
Body all infused weapons ineffective
Thoughts all confused brain experimented
Sins of the father always pass to the son
Sleeping in my coffin always sleeping by my guns
Hojos gotta go he's the reason for the problem
Made us all monsters now we gotta stop him
Jenova was the project stole my father research
Infused with the maco started having seizures
Lucrecia my love her heart was stolen from me
Time for revenge ain't a damn thing funny
Sometimes you gotta pick sides
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes...
It's the birth of a God
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes
It's the birth of a God
We be the Knights of the Round
Equipped to fight till you down
Let off infinite rounds we come with a frightening sound
Enemy skill, we gettin this gil up
Maxing all Materia and sell for a mill-ion
Silence a doubter and handle a coward
Snakes popping up daily like, random encounters
And my stigma is bizarro, you likely won't see tomorrow
We steal as well so Ante Up cause we ain't come to borrow
Aerith's gone so we gotta ride out
Center of the earth, send a rocket to his hide out
In a crater to the north, I display a little force
Separate the planet, leave you with no way to get across
Guess my minds playin tricks, cause the grind stay intense
But the God stay entrenched - so it's time they repent
Chalk it up, give the Soldier the win
Feel like it's 1997 all over again
GoD
Sometimes you gotta pick sides
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes
It's the birth of a God
They call me Vincent Valentine awaken from a dream
You're looking for an answer and nothings what it seems
Your searching for Sephiroth and you need my help
I can sense the energy a power never felt
Dr. Hojo is the man that you're looking for
I been looking for him too what's the plan say no more
Body all infused weapons ineffective
Thoughts all confused brain experimented
Sins of the father always pass to the son
Sleeping in my coffin always sleeping by my guns
Hojos gotta go he's the reason for the problem
Made us all monsters now we gotta stop him
Jenova was the project stole my father research
Infused with the maco started having seizures
Lucrecia my love her heart was stolen from me
Time for revenge ain't a damn thing funny
Sometimes you gotta pick sides
Life ain't a game we just try to survive
It's wild in these times. So I ride with a squad
Y'all know the vibes...
It's the birth of a God
Lyrics submitted by MrDelirious
Birth of a God (feat. Penny The Great) Lyrics as written by Raheem Jarbo Justin Correa
Lyrics © TUNECORE INC, TuneCore Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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