"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.
What ya hear this time
Go on and speak ya mind
I know somebody's lying
It's always somethin'
Her auntie told your cousin
Then all your homies jumped in
And now the whole hoods buzzin'
He said, she said
Don't let it get in ya head
Baby don't say
Something that you will regret
I'm on your team
It's us against them you'll see
Hey, we ain't gon stop
They just want what we got
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
I swear they got some nerve
Spreadin' what they heard
I can't give them no run
I can't be concerned with all that talk
I won't be involved
That's my word
See I'm not the one
They got me confused
They got me messed up
Don't you think I've had enough
When it comes to what we do
All that matters is us two
Don't pay them no mind
We just gon show and prove
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
Here's a couple of things I can't honor man
How you listen to a girl who still want to man
Tell me the truth is that a man or Juwanna Man
I'm wonderin' why she red to go like Wanda Van
When we met you was a V like manana man
Now you went field runnin' plays like Donovan
Knick nav before you get in a cab
I trade in my cab
Just to take you back to last summer man
You don't remember when you was my sweetest
You don't remember I called you Reeses Pieces
Cause it's no wrong way to do you know what
She turned around giggle said you so nuts
But nowadays we actin' way too grown up
But how ya ex girl get that new numba
The rumors was so numerous
For sticking by me I had to give you two thumbs up
And that's why
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
Go on and speak ya mind
I know somebody's lying
It's always somethin'
Her auntie told your cousin
Then all your homies jumped in
And now the whole hoods buzzin'
He said, she said
Don't let it get in ya head
Baby don't say
Something that you will regret
I'm on your team
It's us against them you'll see
Hey, we ain't gon stop
They just want what we got
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
I swear they got some nerve
Spreadin' what they heard
I can't give them no run
I can't be concerned with all that talk
I won't be involved
That's my word
See I'm not the one
They got me confused
They got me messed up
Don't you think I've had enough
When it comes to what we do
All that matters is us two
Don't pay them no mind
We just gon show and prove
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
Here's a couple of things I can't honor man
How you listen to a girl who still want to man
Tell me the truth is that a man or Juwanna Man
I'm wonderin' why she red to go like Wanda Van
When we met you was a V like manana man
Now you went field runnin' plays like Donovan
Knick nav before you get in a cab
I trade in my cab
Just to take you back to last summer man
You don't remember when you was my sweetest
You don't remember I called you Reeses Pieces
Cause it's no wrong way to do you know what
She turned around giggle said you so nuts
But nowadays we actin' way too grown up
But how ya ex girl get that new numba
The rumors was so numerous
For sticking by me I had to give you two thumbs up
And that's why
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
The more they talk about our love
The more they make it obvious
The more they seem so envious
How can they talk about our love
When they don't know one thing about
Instead they just runnin' they mouth
So all we do is tune them out
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Talk About Our Love Lyrics as written by Harold Spencer Jr Lilly Claude B. Ii Cave
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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