"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.
See'mon
Why'all don't feel me
Why'all don't here me
Yeah
Mmmm
Hey little mama
How you doin now
Had ta come on ova and introduce my self
Next
Are you tired
If ya not can we
Get out on the floor and you follow my lead
Chorus:
All my gurl in the party
(dont stop)
All my homies if ya feel me
(dont stop)
Dj if ya wit me
(dont stop)
If ya like it like I like it
(then get ya hands up)
I came to rock a party
(get ya hands up)
I'm shinin like a star beat
(get ya hands up)
Hey lil shawty
(get ya hands up)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
There's no need to
Be so nervous
So what you don't know (imma show u)
And what you don't do (i do it for u)
Jus' relax and
Music will have you feelin so fine
(how we do it)
(sho da doo doo doo)
Baby enjoy ya self tonite
Chorus:
All my gurl in the party
(dont stop)
All my homies if ya feel me
(dont stop)
Dj if ya wit me
(dont stop)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
I came to rock a party
(get ya hands up)
I'm shinin like a star beat
(get ya hands up)
Hey lil shawty
(get ya hands up)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
Gurl I came to rock this party
Don't you stop this party
If you came to party
Get yo hands up wit me
I came to rock this party
Don't you stop this party
If you came to party
Get yo hands up
Rap:
Hey fellaz you gotta do sumthin special
For these gurls
And I ain't talkin bout
Hop in da jet ta show 'um da world
You ain't even gotta come out ya clothes
Check it out when you get um on the floor
Make
Why'all don't feel me
Why'all don't here me
Yeah
Mmmm
Hey little mama
How you doin now
Had ta come on ova and introduce my self
Next
Are you tired
If ya not can we
Get out on the floor and you follow my lead
Chorus:
All my gurl in the party
(dont stop)
All my homies if ya feel me
(dont stop)
Dj if ya wit me
(dont stop)
If ya like it like I like it
(then get ya hands up)
I came to rock a party
(get ya hands up)
I'm shinin like a star beat
(get ya hands up)
Hey lil shawty
(get ya hands up)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
There's no need to
Be so nervous
So what you don't know (imma show u)
And what you don't do (i do it for u)
Jus' relax and
Music will have you feelin so fine
(how we do it)
(sho da doo doo doo)
Baby enjoy ya self tonite
Chorus:
All my gurl in the party
(dont stop)
All my homies if ya feel me
(dont stop)
Dj if ya wit me
(dont stop)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
I came to rock a party
(get ya hands up)
I'm shinin like a star beat
(get ya hands up)
Hey lil shawty
(get ya hands up)
If ya like it like I like it then
(get ya hands up)
Gurl I came to rock this party
Don't you stop this party
If you came to party
Get yo hands up wit me
I came to rock this party
Don't you stop this party
If you came to party
Get yo hands up
Rap:
Hey fellaz you gotta do sumthin special
For these gurls
And I ain't talkin bout
Hop in da jet ta show 'um da world
You ain't even gotta come out ya clothes
Check it out when you get um on the floor
Make
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Hands Up Lyrics as written by Donnie Scantz Darnley De Costa Scantlebury
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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