"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.
[ CHORUS ]
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Would you sex me and my mens?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Or could I sex you and your girlfriends?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Would you sex me and my mens?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex
Sex
Sex
Sex
Because 3...
Talkin bout the number 3
Somewhere in this bedroom it's just you, her and me
A ménage à trois
That's what it is
(Word up)
Puttin us two with you
[ VERSE 1 ]
Ha! Did Ginger and Marianne ever hit The Skipper?
The _Three's Company_ chicks ever fuck Jack Tripper?
Did Orca and Jaws ever run up in Flipper?
Did that Spud dog ever fuck them three frog Bud sippers?
Huh, that's outlandish shit
Two guys dancin with one girl, that's that sandwich shit
Was Wyclef and Praswell scorin on Lauryn?
Was Lil' Cease and Un hittin Lil' Kim?
Did Red Alert and Scale ever fuck Wendy well?
Did Ak and Flex ever fuck Jess and Stress?
Shit, we can take it down the alphabets
Did SWV get with TLC
And fuck them three fellas down with BBD?
Remember Mike Bivins, ABC
They had more than three
But if they cut a few
Would they fuck them three girls from 702?
Would Erykah Badu fuck them two righteous dudes
>From the Brand Nubian crew and include Grand Pu?
Did Mary J. Blige ever fuck Case and Nas?
Was ??? ever comin on Kimberly Drummond?
Check it, remember this record:
And when I'm cool like that, I'm cool like that
I don't know they name, damn it
But I wonder did them niggas ever ram it
In that girl from Digable Planets?
[ CHORUS ]
[ VERSE 2 ]
Remember in the early '80s, did ???
Fuck them ladies from the Brady's?
Stanford & Son fuck Esther Grady
Or could it be
Ed Lover and Dr. Dre fucked Lisa G?
Is it that old school chick
Gladys Knight fucked them Pips?
And damsels, we goin back to old school jams
Did UTFO fuck The Real Roxanne?
Did Cagney and Lacey ever fuck Dick Tracy?
Did Jasmine Guy ever fuck Teddy Ri'
And them other two guys
Cause they was all part of Guy
Remember Aaron Hall, Damon Hall
Did the Gay Rapper ever fuck are you Paul two balls?
Who you want to sex, where you want to sex
And when it comes to talkin bi-sex, I'm the muthafuckin best
Check the rhyme, did Changing Faces
Ever let R. Kelly bump and grind in they behind?
Did Laverne and Shirley ever fuck Carmine?
Was Gina and Pam humpin on Martin?
And all you freaks on that motorcycle shit
I wonder would you ever fuck them two police from _Chips_?
_New York Undercover_, what's that puertorican's name?
Yeah, did him and Leeroy fuck Debbie Allen from _Fame_?
And if Miss Braxton said at first, then three times 'I'm feelin horny'
Does it mean she's fuckin Tony Toni Tonë?
[ CHORUS ]
Just imagine you could have
Who you want to fuck
Where you want to fuck
When you want to fuck
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Would you sex me and my mens?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Or could I sex you and your girlfriends?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex?
Would you sex me and my mens?
Who you want to sex?
Where you want to sex?
When you want to sex
Sex
Sex
Sex
Because 3...
Talkin bout the number 3
Somewhere in this bedroom it's just you, her and me
A ménage à trois
That's what it is
(Word up)
Puttin us two with you
[ VERSE 1 ]
Ha! Did Ginger and Marianne ever hit The Skipper?
The _Three's Company_ chicks ever fuck Jack Tripper?
Did Orca and Jaws ever run up in Flipper?
Did that Spud dog ever fuck them three frog Bud sippers?
Huh, that's outlandish shit
Two guys dancin with one girl, that's that sandwich shit
Was Wyclef and Praswell scorin on Lauryn?
Was Lil' Cease and Un hittin Lil' Kim?
Did Red Alert and Scale ever fuck Wendy well?
Did Ak and Flex ever fuck Jess and Stress?
Shit, we can take it down the alphabets
Did SWV get with TLC
And fuck them three fellas down with BBD?
Remember Mike Bivins, ABC
They had more than three
But if they cut a few
Would they fuck them three girls from 702?
Would Erykah Badu fuck them two righteous dudes
>From the Brand Nubian crew and include Grand Pu?
Did Mary J. Blige ever fuck Case and Nas?
Was ??? ever comin on Kimberly Drummond?
Check it, remember this record:
And when I'm cool like that, I'm cool like that
I don't know they name, damn it
But I wonder did them niggas ever ram it
In that girl from Digable Planets?
[ CHORUS ]
[ VERSE 2 ]
Remember in the early '80s, did ???
Fuck them ladies from the Brady's?
Stanford & Son fuck Esther Grady
Or could it be
Ed Lover and Dr. Dre fucked Lisa G?
Is it that old school chick
Gladys Knight fucked them Pips?
And damsels, we goin back to old school jams
Did UTFO fuck The Real Roxanne?
Did Cagney and Lacey ever fuck Dick Tracy?
Did Jasmine Guy ever fuck Teddy Ri'
And them other two guys
Cause they was all part of Guy
Remember Aaron Hall, Damon Hall
Did the Gay Rapper ever fuck are you Paul two balls?
Who you want to sex, where you want to sex
And when it comes to talkin bi-sex, I'm the muthafuckin best
Check the rhyme, did Changing Faces
Ever let R. Kelly bump and grind in they behind?
Did Laverne and Shirley ever fuck Carmine?
Was Gina and Pam humpin on Martin?
And all you freaks on that motorcycle shit
I wonder would you ever fuck them two police from _Chips_?
_New York Undercover_, what's that puertorican's name?
Yeah, did him and Leeroy fuck Debbie Allen from _Fame_?
And if Miss Braxton said at first, then three times 'I'm feelin horny'
Does it mean she's fuckin Tony Toni Tonë?
[ CHORUS ]
Just imagine you could have
Who you want to fuck
Where you want to fuck
When you want to fuck
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