"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.
(High on sunshine)
(Lightin' my way)
(Let it flow)
And, yes, y'all
You are about to bear witness
From the lands of Long Island (Long Island)
Takin' you to the sky's forever, forever (Long Island forever, kid)
I am your captain, Enola
On this endless journey
To invisions, to broaden your outer visions
To where you never been before
It's just a one night trip to love
Sun shinin' forever and forever sun shines
Yo, leaving lasting impressions like cuts to flesh
Be that crew from the 516 point of view
With skills so tight, they the rhymes of a vagina
Them clits will turn into a diamond, the level of rhymin'
Pressure comes from lesser forms than me and my man
And we go back like life created from um, specks of sand
And there's money to be made 'cause cacaussians are paid
Only brothers who rhyme, seek bounce and catch balls
Plug 1 with them rhymes makin' your heart stall
Like them girls when you in they room when they man calls
It ain't nothin' but the thing Wonder Why can bring
As we come to the bring the pain everyone will sing
De la is the crew that you must hear
But please don't rush the stage
'Cause even though them stakes are really high
We're really not here to race
We're just here to move your mind and soul
With perpetuated ease
Let's just rock the show until it's time to go
And get with the young ladies because
I'm on travellin' to places that the eye can't see
But kinder 'cause yo' strife don't mean a thing to me
Throwin' me criminal looks, y'all need to get in the books
And drop some water in your melon 'stead of actin' like a felon
Ayo, son, who you tellin'? I'd make a mil' if it was up to me
But since it ain't, I teach my seed to bank hard
And thank God I smoke a substance of a different kind
Catch me trippin' on Earth when I'm high off sunshine
Down right to dirt, Wonder Why makes it work
With access to talent like caucasians to yellow cabs
With an Arab driver
I liven parties with marvelous conviction
Ain't no friction when life claims
Them victims who be ready to suck dry up the funds
Best believe that the life is trife
'Cause the gun made a man outta pussies from around my way
Who usually wouldn't have a fuckin' thing to say
Last year's hard rocks are now petrified boulders
And L.I.'s finest is movin' yo' necks and shoulders
The anthem of this guy has been place in yo' eye
So you can be blessed to see in 3D double-E
De la is the crew that you must hear
But please don't rush the stage
'Cause even though them stakes are really high
We're really not here to race
We're just here to move your mind and soul
With perpetuated ease
Let's just rock the show until it's time to go
And get with the young ladies because
(Lightin' my way)
(Let it flow)
And, yes, y'all
You are about to bear witness
From the lands of Long Island (Long Island)
Takin' you to the sky's forever, forever (Long Island forever, kid)
I am your captain, Enola
On this endless journey
To invisions, to broaden your outer visions
To where you never been before
It's just a one night trip to love
Sun shinin' forever and forever sun shines
Yo, leaving lasting impressions like cuts to flesh
Be that crew from the 516 point of view
With skills so tight, they the rhymes of a vagina
Them clits will turn into a diamond, the level of rhymin'
Pressure comes from lesser forms than me and my man
And we go back like life created from um, specks of sand
And there's money to be made 'cause cacaussians are paid
Only brothers who rhyme, seek bounce and catch balls
Plug 1 with them rhymes makin' your heart stall
Like them girls when you in they room when they man calls
It ain't nothin' but the thing Wonder Why can bring
As we come to the bring the pain everyone will sing
De la is the crew that you must hear
But please don't rush the stage
'Cause even though them stakes are really high
We're really not here to race
We're just here to move your mind and soul
With perpetuated ease
Let's just rock the show until it's time to go
And get with the young ladies because
I'm on travellin' to places that the eye can't see
But kinder 'cause yo' strife don't mean a thing to me
Throwin' me criminal looks, y'all need to get in the books
And drop some water in your melon 'stead of actin' like a felon
Ayo, son, who you tellin'? I'd make a mil' if it was up to me
But since it ain't, I teach my seed to bank hard
And thank God I smoke a substance of a different kind
Catch me trippin' on Earth when I'm high off sunshine
Down right to dirt, Wonder Why makes it work
With access to talent like caucasians to yellow cabs
With an Arab driver
I liven parties with marvelous conviction
Ain't no friction when life claims
Them victims who be ready to suck dry up the funds
Best believe that the life is trife
'Cause the gun made a man outta pussies from around my way
Who usually wouldn't have a fuckin' thing to say
Last year's hard rocks are now petrified boulders
And L.I.'s finest is movin' yo' necks and shoulders
The anthem of this guy has been place in yo' eye
So you can be blessed to see in 3D double-E
De la is the crew that you must hear
But please don't rush the stage
'Cause even though them stakes are really high
We're really not here to race
We're just here to move your mind and soul
With perpetuated ease
Let's just rock the show until it's time to go
And get with the young ladies because
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Sunshine Lyrics as written by Lionel Richie Thomas Mcclary
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