"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.
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four
Out the gate I brought the horsepower
Rev-Mex to your hard drive
We run a hard bargain
Pardon the trip
I sneeze jealousies into these rhyme cartel
We park the art well
Hung on all fours, box and start sell
Available to you and yours
Other songs only make attempts
To love they inner
Understand I am just saying it
To validate displaying Ozomatli
Stance at first glance
It's like the train
Brought to hit you like James
With the 1, 2, 3, 4
True martial arts
Official souls my brainchild
Sing the song name now
1, 2, 3, 4
Bust a track till they flat on they back
Have the referee smacking the mat like
1, 2, 3, 4
We do it on the phone
When we stuff the funk in it, huh
Now wait a minute, so allot of us
Yo, I'm the East Coast south paw
Hanging with these West Coast north stars
Shining bright, height five elev'
Come on
Formatic for the handlin' the trouble
Comin' my way
The highway to heaven
Is a long road among the lyrical coves
The bus
Allot of us
Punk minds with the one of a kind rhymes
I .M.C., spit, kick for fee
Then all, not the player baby
But I running while you crawl
Too fast on your comprehension
Did I mention
Dave Madden scored a goal from the team
Second team I
I'm ready for crunch time
The lunch line was my favorite
Till I graduated to bus
Uh, uh, then I spewed to spit it
Now it's the three of us
Connected like Siameses
We on time
Like shiny bits of metal
Strapped to your wrist
We are tattoo to this rap thing
With invisible ink
I'm gone in a blink
Lethal like my pinkie
And clown like Bozo
Don't you know that Ozo bring the
1, 2, 3, 4
To hard to face
But lovin' the taste
Squeeze it out like paste alright
1, 2, 3, 4
Plug 2 will only rock a few
So now I roll with Ozomatli crew
Bringing you
1, 2, 3, 4
We know the backs to break
Ozomatli the great
Bring it
1, 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4
One, two, three, four
Out the gate I brought the horsepower
Rev-Mex to your hard drive
We run a hard bargain
Pardon the trip
I sneeze jealousies into these rhyme cartel
We park the art well
Hung on all fours, box and start sell
Available to you and yours
Other songs only make attempts
To love they inner
Understand I am just saying it
To validate displaying Ozomatli
Stance at first glance
It's like the train
Brought to hit you like James
With the 1, 2, 3, 4
True martial arts
Official souls my brainchild
Sing the song name now
1, 2, 3, 4
Bust a track till they flat on they back
Have the referee smacking the mat like
1, 2, 3, 4
We do it on the phone
When we stuff the funk in it, huh
Now wait a minute, so allot of us
Yo, I'm the East Coast south paw
Hanging with these West Coast north stars
Shining bright, height five elev'
Come on
Formatic for the handlin' the trouble
Comin' my way
The highway to heaven
Is a long road among the lyrical coves
The bus
Allot of us
Punk minds with the one of a kind rhymes
I .M.C., spit, kick for fee
Then all, not the player baby
But I running while you crawl
Too fast on your comprehension
Did I mention
Dave Madden scored a goal from the team
Second team I
I'm ready for crunch time
The lunch line was my favorite
Till I graduated to bus
Uh, uh, then I spewed to spit it
Now it's the three of us
Connected like Siameses
We on time
Like shiny bits of metal
Strapped to your wrist
We are tattoo to this rap thing
With invisible ink
I'm gone in a blink
Lethal like my pinkie
And clown like Bozo
Don't you know that Ozo bring the
1, 2, 3, 4
To hard to face
But lovin' the taste
Squeeze it out like paste alright
1, 2, 3, 4
Plug 2 will only rock a few
So now I roll with Ozomatli crew
Bringing you
1, 2, 3, 4
We know the backs to break
Ozomatli the great
Bring it
1, 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4
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