"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.
[Bow Wow]
Oh, oh
Uh huh, uh huh, oh
Let's take a pause for a minute
Let's go (I)
Check it out man
See man, Bow Weezy right here live and direct (OH I)
I'm talking to y'all young n's out there baby
Can't wait until I turn eighteen
I know it's the same for y'all man, I know, I know (I)
I'm talking bout pulling up in them big cars on them 22's
No forget that, I'm talking 'bout Charlie Woodson's man
I'm a pull up, I'm talking bout 24's
It's a wrap for y'all when I turn eighteen man
listen to the hook
[Chorus]
When I turn eighteen
I need to ride on some rims that's clean
And them brand new J's when I hit the scene
When I turn eighteen
I need a girlfriend older than me
And she gonna have to be a dime if she rollin with me
When I turn eighteen
I pull up and stop, let my system knock
They all know I'm super cool when I drop the top
When I turn eighteen
I get my crib up on my first day
And every week we celebrate like it's my birthday
When I turn eighteen
Yeah
[Bow Wow]
I'm a be leaning and dipping, sitting on inches riding
Getting at women they loving my every sentence
It's Weezy baby, from the truck, to the drop, to the Coupe to the high 2's
See that y'all, you gotta believe me baby
The game tight and the bank right
Since fame came and the bright lights
You gotta release me baby, I can't be tied up
Can't be handcuffed to no chick at the party when I ride up
Cause I gotta mingle, I know I'm great with the lingo
but check it I gotta motivate, I just gotta be single
And yeah like when I see you, yeah like how you jingle
And yeah said I'm a ring you but baby I can't bring you
Can't wait 'til the day comes
When I wake up and I'm eighteen
Not a young pup but a big dog
And I bark loud and I switch cars
It sounds hard but it's not y'all
When I get there that's it y'all
Ninth day of the third month, it's on
[Chorus]
[Bow Wow]
I'm up in that H2 with them wheels to match
Got them big dog speakers bumping up in the back
Got that Snoop Dogg CD is what I insert
Roll down my windows, sounds like a concert
And on a beautiful day, I might just switch to the Rover
"So Fresh So Clean" like Outkast, a PD can't pull me over
I'm "Big Pimpin" like Jay-Z, steady "Stunning" like Baby
"I Need A Girl" like Free, mixed with some Halle Berry
And a little hood which is good like Trina to be my lady
Just call me Cassius Clay, baby cause I'm the greatest
And can't nobody my age can ever ever fade this
I'm unfadeable, I'm untouchable
I'm on a mission now, I'm in transition now
B-O-double-double-O-double, y'all
It's Bow Wow, I'm in the house now and I'm up outta the pound
Now listen to the hook, this how it's going down
[Chorus]
[Bow Wow]
YEAH! (*laughing*)
You know what I'm saying?
I'm speaking for all the young ones my age
You know what I mean?
Being told you can't do this
You can't get in here and you want to do it
This the song right here
This the anthem for us right here, cause I'm one of them
Always told no, you can't get in
But you know what
That's fitting to change man
Ha, when I
[Chorus: x2]
Oh, oh
Uh huh, uh huh, oh
Let's take a pause for a minute
Let's go (I)
Check it out man
See man, Bow Weezy right here live and direct (OH I)
I'm talking to y'all young n's out there baby
Can't wait until I turn eighteen
I know it's the same for y'all man, I know, I know (I)
I'm talking bout pulling up in them big cars on them 22's
No forget that, I'm talking 'bout Charlie Woodson's man
I'm a pull up, I'm talking bout 24's
It's a wrap for y'all when I turn eighteen man
listen to the hook
[Chorus]
When I turn eighteen
I need to ride on some rims that's clean
And them brand new J's when I hit the scene
When I turn eighteen
I need a girlfriend older than me
And she gonna have to be a dime if she rollin with me
When I turn eighteen
I pull up and stop, let my system knock
They all know I'm super cool when I drop the top
When I turn eighteen
I get my crib up on my first day
And every week we celebrate like it's my birthday
When I turn eighteen
Yeah
[Bow Wow]
I'm a be leaning and dipping, sitting on inches riding
Getting at women they loving my every sentence
It's Weezy baby, from the truck, to the drop, to the Coupe to the high 2's
See that y'all, you gotta believe me baby
The game tight and the bank right
Since fame came and the bright lights
You gotta release me baby, I can't be tied up
Can't be handcuffed to no chick at the party when I ride up
Cause I gotta mingle, I know I'm great with the lingo
but check it I gotta motivate, I just gotta be single
And yeah like when I see you, yeah like how you jingle
And yeah said I'm a ring you but baby I can't bring you
Can't wait 'til the day comes
When I wake up and I'm eighteen
Not a young pup but a big dog
And I bark loud and I switch cars
It sounds hard but it's not y'all
When I get there that's it y'all
Ninth day of the third month, it's on
[Chorus]
[Bow Wow]
I'm up in that H2 with them wheels to match
Got them big dog speakers bumping up in the back
Got that Snoop Dogg CD is what I insert
Roll down my windows, sounds like a concert
And on a beautiful day, I might just switch to the Rover
"So Fresh So Clean" like Outkast, a PD can't pull me over
I'm "Big Pimpin" like Jay-Z, steady "Stunning" like Baby
"I Need A Girl" like Free, mixed with some Halle Berry
And a little hood which is good like Trina to be my lady
Just call me Cassius Clay, baby cause I'm the greatest
And can't nobody my age can ever ever fade this
I'm unfadeable, I'm untouchable
I'm on a mission now, I'm in transition now
B-O-double-double-O-double, y'all
It's Bow Wow, I'm in the house now and I'm up outta the pound
Now listen to the hook, this how it's going down
[Chorus]
[Bow Wow]
YEAH! (*laughing*)
You know what I'm saying?
I'm speaking for all the young ones my age
You know what I mean?
Being told you can't do this
You can't get in here and you want to do it
This the song right here
This the anthem for us right here, cause I'm one of them
Always told no, you can't get in
But you know what
That's fitting to change man
Ha, when I
[Chorus: x2]
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