"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.
Everyday talk in the ghetto
Who's got the hottest whip
Who's got the hottest chic
Who won't acknowledge it
Who takes care of the kids
Who shows tha most
Who talks the most
Who's doin' what's what
Who's skrewin' who's chic
Who's really full of it
Who stacks the most chips
Who makes the most bids
Who's getting out of it
Who runs the projects
Who's car is the flyest
It takes to be a supa star
Don't knock till ya try it!
Everybody wants to be a supa star ('round my way) supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
Who got tha most dice
Who's the twenty to life
Who's really ghetto
Ghetto is a state of mind
Who got who got knocked up
Who called the cops up
Won't somebody stop em
Who robbed the bodega
Asalaam Alaikum
Do we eva think about will we really make it
Its pressure in these videos
Dream cast and the radio
That's the ghetto house hold
Every body here we go
'Cause I'm in a ghetto state of mind
And I'm jus tryin to get tha hell up outta of here
'Cause I'm in a ghetto state of mind
And I'm jus tryin to get tha hell up outta here
'Cause everybody
Everybody wants to be a supa star supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
'Cause every body wants to shine every body wants to live the life and every
Body wants to go where every body knows their name
Every body really wants to see there name in bright lights
That's why I gotta get outta here cause every body wants to be
Everybody wants to be a supa star supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
Who's got the hottest whip
Who's got the hottest chic
Who won't acknowledge it
Who takes care of the kids
Who shows tha most
Who talks the most
Who's doin' what's what
Who's skrewin' who's chic
Who's really full of it
Who stacks the most chips
Who makes the most bids
Who's getting out of it
Who runs the projects
Who's car is the flyest
It takes to be a supa star
Don't knock till ya try it!
Everybody wants to be a supa star ('round my way) supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
Who got tha most dice
Who's the twenty to life
Who's really ghetto
Ghetto is a state of mind
Who got who got knocked up
Who called the cops up
Won't somebody stop em
Who robbed the bodega
Asalaam Alaikum
Do we eva think about will we really make it
Its pressure in these videos
Dream cast and the radio
That's the ghetto house hold
Every body here we go
'Cause I'm in a ghetto state of mind
And I'm jus tryin to get tha hell up outta of here
'Cause I'm in a ghetto state of mind
And I'm jus tryin to get tha hell up outta here
'Cause everybody
Everybody wants to be a supa star supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
'Cause every body wants to shine every body wants to live the life and every
Body wants to go where every body knows their name
Every body really wants to see there name in bright lights
That's why I gotta get outta here cause every body wants to be
Everybody wants to be a supa star supa stara
Everybody wants to be a supa star that's what you are
Hey hey
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Supa Star Lyrics as written by Darryl Mcclary Cynthia Loving
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