"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.
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Potnah this bubonic cuts, that other shit is high
Fuck what you talkin' about, throw me that childproof lighter
Oh youse a smoker huh? Then go on and flame
I heard you got some shit and heard it come from Spain
Naw, Amsterdam, I got it from the hemp man
Bought the weed 'cause I love what it do to me
Five o'clock in the traffic and I be fiendin'
Without the bomb nigga life has no meanin'
Okay, see I be krunkin' to profession in American-oh
Cristal Brothers Brandy all down the throat
Steady dippin' call me Funk Master Flex
Ass since mom and daddy had sex
Got yo' nigga daydreamin', smebbin' in a check-you
Floatin' in a cloud, music up hella loud
Proud to be in the land of the lights and the beer
Got me where I ain't carin'
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
It's like this and that to fuckin' with your dick on hard
And nigga ain't no Pebble Beach in my backyard
Rackateerin', smearin', no foreseein'
Shit folks ain't even used to hearin'
We break bread with the [Incomprehensible], thick ass bitch with the tits
And the anus, off the English, how her body speak her own language
And it's cool when she speakin' to me
I let the hoochie run through me
I seen him walkin' in the rain
I guess the nigga owe too much to the game
They say the nigga used to drive a Mustang
I'm thinkin' potnah musta went against the grain like a lane
I cross artists? No not be-Legit
Catch nine of the last ten in my clip
Don't trip, a bitch can't do in me
But I be likin' what she doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Just think, I used to have to flip cabbage
And now I ride in a nine-seven whip Caddy
Meal game, they call me by my stage name
Hella G's when I spit this game
But just think, I used to sell them weights
But now I'm all off into real estates, huh
We put our city on the map, raise clientele
Made it so niggaz can be proud to say they from Vallel'
[Incomprehensible] side, man I went to school with them
Had him in my class, never thought the fool'd pass
But now I took advantage of the opportunity
And I love what it do to me
They say that I got cousins, I ain't never met
Think I'm big-headed, think I'm all that
They say that I don't give to my community
But I be likin' what they doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Potnah this bubonic cuts, that other shit is high
Fuck what you talkin' about, throw me that childproof lighter
Oh youse a smoker huh? Then go on and flame
I heard you got some shit and heard it come from Spain
Naw, Amsterdam, I got it from the hemp man
Bought the weed 'cause I love what it do to me
Five o'clock in the traffic and I be fiendin'
Without the bomb nigga life has no meanin'
Okay, see I be krunkin' to profession in American-oh
Cristal Brothers Brandy all down the throat
Steady dippin' call me Funk Master Flex
Ass since mom and daddy had sex
Got yo' nigga daydreamin', smebbin' in a check-you
Floatin' in a cloud, music up hella loud
Proud to be in the land of the lights and the beer
Got me where I ain't carin'
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
It's like this and that to fuckin' with your dick on hard
And nigga ain't no Pebble Beach in my backyard
Rackateerin', smearin', no foreseein'
Shit folks ain't even used to hearin'
We break bread with the [Incomprehensible], thick ass bitch with the tits
And the anus, off the English, how her body speak her own language
And it's cool when she speakin' to me
I let the hoochie run through me
I seen him walkin' in the rain
I guess the nigga owe too much to the game
They say the nigga used to drive a Mustang
I'm thinkin' potnah musta went against the grain like a lane
I cross artists? No not be-Legit
Catch nine of the last ten in my clip
Don't trip, a bitch can't do in me
But I be likin' what she doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Just think, I used to have to flip cabbage
And now I ride in a nine-seven whip Caddy
Meal game, they call me by my stage name
Hella G's when I spit this game
But just think, I used to sell them weights
But now I'm all off into real estates, huh
We put our city on the map, raise clientele
Made it so niggaz can be proud to say they from Vallel'
[Incomprehensible] side, man I went to school with them
Had him in my class, never thought the fool'd pass
But now I took advantage of the opportunity
And I love what it do to me
They say that I got cousins, I ain't never met
Think I'm big-headed, think I'm all that
They say that I don't give to my community
But I be likin' what they doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Because I like what you doin' to me
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
Good things come to those
Who stays on they toes
Don't you ever stop
Always keep it hot
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I Like What You Do to Me Lyrics as written by Larry Blackmon Anthony Lockett
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