"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.
Hit the block around twenty to nine,
Checking my girl
But then I see this girl lookin' fine, so I
Asked her if she wouldn't mind,
Could you tell me your name and what you're doing tonight ?
Body like nothin' I seen,
She's telling me she's on the cover of GQ magazine.
Tellin' me she had to go
So I dropped her at the spot in my four by four
So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said
Baby give me what you got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot
Got my woman crazy on the phone,
She's talking bout why the fuck my ass ain't at home.
Had to tell her I was stuck,
In some brand new business, I was all tied up.
Told the girl I was late,
I had to rhyme.
I got to be backstage at a quarter past nine.
Telling me to change my mind
She's like Britney Spears "Baby hit me one more time"
So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said
Baby give me what you got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot
Checking my girl
But then I see this girl lookin' fine, so I
Asked her if she wouldn't mind,
Could you tell me your name and what you're doing tonight ?
Body like nothin' I seen,
She's telling me she's on the cover of GQ magazine.
Tellin' me she had to go
So I dropped her at the spot in my four by four
So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said
Baby give me what you got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot
Got my woman crazy on the phone,
She's talking bout why the fuck my ass ain't at home.
Had to tell her I was stuck,
In some brand new business, I was all tied up.
Told the girl I was late,
I had to rhyme.
I got to be backstage at a quarter past nine.
Telling me to change my mind
She's like Britney Spears "Baby hit me one more time"
So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said
Baby give me what you got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot
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What You Got Lyrics as written by Althea Rose Forrest Richard Breen
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