"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.
Pull up the vibes that you're playing
Can you play some more?
(How the dance 'ya nice)
Can you play some more?
(So we play we good vibe, good vibe)
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Without the Dancehall, ah weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Whine up, jump up, when you hear sweet again
Buju Banton, Beres Hammond haffi tell dem, today
Without the Dancehall, weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Whine up, jump up, when you hear sweet again
Buju Banton, Beres Hammond haffi tell dem, today
Everyone ah do di dance weh dem love
Indecent dance and nuff form a crowd
Greet everyone that enter wit' a hug
Come spread out and listen to some sweet
Rub-a-du-du-dub
Pull up the vibes that you're playing
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Scary and the one name Skellion
Dem know everything weh ah gwan (weh unnuh ah say?)
Me ah go rope dem inna mi corner (oh)
Fi find out if mi bredren dem inna di lawn
Everywhere I look is pure skanking
I see no statue around, yeah
Too ratid! I see girls ah get wild
Selectah ah spin music versatile
Dem wan' turn down we sound
And bruk we vibes down
Who dem ah try turn inna a clown?
Dance hall fill up and me cyaan' get a chance
How me ah go find mi sistren inna di dance?
Music ah play, people jump and prance
Bruk out, you selectah boy!
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Di whole dance ah cry
Di whole dance ah cry
I said di whole dance ah cry
Can't get a chance fi mek ah likkle step
Dance hall ram and me seh no place to left
Ah police come ah tun it off, di vibes dem wan' fi wreck
And dis is Buju Banton, me seh no respect
Well listen Beres Hammond who's a true intellect, say
Yes, you got me rocking in a corner
With all the lights turn down low (music alone can do that boy!)
Can't express how mi glad mi come 'round 'ya
I never seen so much good vibes flow
Everyone inside is like family, yeah
I see no strangers around
And every massive is here
And tonight we nuh care
Kill the violence dead, mek we rock it instead (violence dead)
Jump and palave every man get red now (question)
Pull up the vibes that you're playing
Can you play some more? (Dancehall haffi nice)
Can you play some more?
My, my
Without the Dancehall, weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Women ah jump up, women ah whine up
When dem hear sweet again
Buju Banton seh fi, "Go deh, go deh"
Can you play some more?
(How the dance 'ya nice)
Can you play some more?
(So we play we good vibe, good vibe)
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Without the Dancehall, ah weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Whine up, jump up, when you hear sweet again
Buju Banton, Beres Hammond haffi tell dem, today
Without the Dancehall, weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Whine up, jump up, when you hear sweet again
Buju Banton, Beres Hammond haffi tell dem, today
Everyone ah do di dance weh dem love
Indecent dance and nuff form a crowd
Greet everyone that enter wit' a hug
Come spread out and listen to some sweet
Rub-a-du-du-dub
Pull up the vibes that you're playing
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Scary and the one name Skellion
Dem know everything weh ah gwan (weh unnuh ah say?)
Me ah go rope dem inna mi corner (oh)
Fi find out if mi bredren dem inna di lawn
Everywhere I look is pure skanking
I see no statue around, yeah
Too ratid! I see girls ah get wild
Selectah ah spin music versatile
Dem wan' turn down we sound
And bruk we vibes down
Who dem ah try turn inna a clown?
Dance hall fill up and me cyaan' get a chance
How me ah go find mi sistren inna di dance?
Music ah play, people jump and prance
Bruk out, you selectah boy!
Lift it up, jock it up, pull it up, come again
Can you play some more?
Can you play some more?
Di whole dance ah cry
Di whole dance ah cry
I said di whole dance ah cry
Can't get a chance fi mek ah likkle step
Dance hall ram and me seh no place to left
Ah police come ah tun it off, di vibes dem wan' fi wreck
And dis is Buju Banton, me seh no respect
Well listen Beres Hammond who's a true intellect, say
Yes, you got me rocking in a corner
With all the lights turn down low (music alone can do that boy!)
Can't express how mi glad mi come 'round 'ya
I never seen so much good vibes flow
Everyone inside is like family, yeah
I see no strangers around
And every massive is here
And tonight we nuh care
Kill the violence dead, mek we rock it instead (violence dead)
Jump and palave every man get red now (question)
Pull up the vibes that you're playing
Can you play some more? (Dancehall haffi nice)
Can you play some more?
My, my
Without the Dancehall, weh we would a do?
Reggae music hall, you mus' answer to
Women ah jump up, women ah whine up
When dem hear sweet again
Buju Banton seh fi, "Go deh, go deh"
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