"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.
da girl be cookin and cleanin
cleanin and cookin
she be constanly dushin and cleanin her pussy
and when she step on the scene everybody be lookin
and to get in dem jeans everbody be wishin
but she only want playas dat far from rooky
and you aint got the cake cant play with the nookie
her tities sittin pretty and she soft as a cushion
if you try to holla she might holla she tooken
and she walk like a bad bitch
talk like a bad bitch
and go and get her hair shit fixed is a habit
bad bitches go and buy fits more than average
and bad bitches go and take trips with da savage
can't neva tell a bad bitch from a freak she too classy
but i can tell by her lips that she nasty
expensive ass pantses
grip to them asses
she mean like a pitbull
sweet like candy
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
see now i can impress da bitch da gon smile
caress da bad bitch now the girl gon wild
i feed it and treat it like thats my child
and freak it up and beat it up and thats my style
you get alot of head when yo bread enpile
im on right now what im sayin im loud
a triflin ass bitch make the big dog growl
a bad ass bitch make the big dog proud
which one is the baddest
thats the one im havin the one with no kids
or just one baby daddy
and she aint hard headed
can listen and respect it
and you aint a bad bitch if you got bad credit
a thong and press ons
know how to cook neckbones
i want that mvp with that throwback dress on
don't like to get dirty and don't mind workin
and she don't mind givin me some mouth and lip service
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
Now make yo self seen
cause yo a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
yeah you a bad bitch
now show yo ass off
cause you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
yeah you a bad bitch
man i love dem bad bitches with dem sexy ass tattoos
dem bad bitches with dem bad bitches attitude
she a damn fool got a crib she'll let me camp
make sure her nigga stay filled with dem food stamps
i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t do you know what that means man
own damn house flossed out big screen man
i'll bring da whole hundred shit what you gon do for me man
look at her own income she a beast man
bad bitches handle business first den streets man
she aint cryin over no nigga she aint weak man
da kinda bitch that put a real nigga on his feet man
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
repeat
cleanin and cookin
she be constanly dushin and cleanin her pussy
and when she step on the scene everybody be lookin
and to get in dem jeans everbody be wishin
but she only want playas dat far from rooky
and you aint got the cake cant play with the nookie
her tities sittin pretty and she soft as a cushion
if you try to holla she might holla she tooken
and she walk like a bad bitch
talk like a bad bitch
and go and get her hair shit fixed is a habit
bad bitches go and buy fits more than average
and bad bitches go and take trips with da savage
can't neva tell a bad bitch from a freak she too classy
but i can tell by her lips that she nasty
expensive ass pantses
grip to them asses
she mean like a pitbull
sweet like candy
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
see now i can impress da bitch da gon smile
caress da bad bitch now the girl gon wild
i feed it and treat it like thats my child
and freak it up and beat it up and thats my style
you get alot of head when yo bread enpile
im on right now what im sayin im loud
a triflin ass bitch make the big dog growl
a bad ass bitch make the big dog proud
which one is the baddest
thats the one im havin the one with no kids
or just one baby daddy
and she aint hard headed
can listen and respect it
and you aint a bad bitch if you got bad credit
a thong and press ons
know how to cook neckbones
i want that mvp with that throwback dress on
don't like to get dirty and don't mind workin
and she don't mind givin me some mouth and lip service
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
Now make yo self seen
cause yo a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
yeah you a bad bitch
now show yo ass off
cause you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
yeah you a bad bitch
man i love dem bad bitches with dem sexy ass tattoos
dem bad bitches with dem bad bitches attitude
she a damn fool got a crib she'll let me camp
make sure her nigga stay filled with dem food stamps
i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t do you know what that means man
own damn house flossed out big screen man
i'll bring da whole hundred shit what you gon do for me man
look at her own income she a beast man
bad bitches handle business first den streets man
she aint cryin over no nigga she aint weak man
da kinda bitch that put a real nigga on his feet man
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
now thats a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
girl you a bad bitch
repeat
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