"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.
[Chorus]
On a mission wishing upon a star young boweezy with the caviar.
In the back of a limo no demo this is the real breaking niggas down like Evander Hollyfeild.
I might come to your town shut a show down
Got the whole crowd screaming lil bow wow.
Without the lil but I'm still on top back
With sad record sales won't flop (nah)
That's what you thought but I'm in that
New Porsche no box earrings chain on no
Watch (that's big) picture a grandfather clock with diamonds,
That's just the kinda mind state that I'm in.
Caviar, Cartier, carter-drop on my neck call her dear cute shorty called lenier (come here).
I'm on my P's and my Q's stones green to the blue 23's when I cruise.
Feel my calf muscle on my brake pedal ain't another younging on my bank level (where you at?).
I'm right here never late please see clear its no blur yes sir.
[Chorus: x2]
I'm on leer jets,
Know what make your face from your tears wet while you rocking last years sweats.
Swag yeah I got it Prada bags for my luggage,
Face on screen for everything I does in the public.
Boy wonder, make the other boys wonder how we keep it
Coming different every summer.
Don't be amazed cause of me,
Be amazed cause the v came with a five year opped out lease (yea)
That's cause I paid what I paid if you
Paid like I'm paid den yo cribs came wit the maids
And if it didn't den you slipping catch up but by the time you do I'll probably do it different.
I'm advanced the the pants see the kicks see the stones on the risk u see the phone on my hip? (where it at?) it's right there up to date please see clear
Its no blur yes sir.
[Chorus: x2]
[Snoop]
Shooting niggas down, slapping bitches up, straight cash strut with some heny in my cup.
Rude for the hell of it, I should be the president hey yo homey
Doggy dogg got the medicine (where, where?) in the cabinet,
I'm the magnet, of attracting the badest bitches on the planet dig it.
I once was a pup never scared to run up I did it till the day I came up and stars do shine,
I take my 32 lines and try to make you unwind first I,
Chop um and den some, flop um den flip um, break um and bend um,
Den fix um convince them to buy my records
Cause you know its all hits spread the word cause you know its the shit! Quit
Playing go get it quit hesitating its the young and the big on the real my nig.
[Chorus: x4]
On a mission wishing upon a star young boweezy with the caviar.
In the back of a limo no demo this is the real breaking niggas down like Evander Hollyfeild.
I might come to your town shut a show down
Got the whole crowd screaming lil bow wow.
Without the lil but I'm still on top back
With sad record sales won't flop (nah)
That's what you thought but I'm in that
New Porsche no box earrings chain on no
Watch (that's big) picture a grandfather clock with diamonds,
That's just the kinda mind state that I'm in.
Caviar, Cartier, carter-drop on my neck call her dear cute shorty called lenier (come here).
I'm on my P's and my Q's stones green to the blue 23's when I cruise.
Feel my calf muscle on my brake pedal ain't another younging on my bank level (where you at?).
I'm right here never late please see clear its no blur yes sir.
[Chorus: x2]
I'm on leer jets,
Know what make your face from your tears wet while you rocking last years sweats.
Swag yeah I got it Prada bags for my luggage,
Face on screen for everything I does in the public.
Boy wonder, make the other boys wonder how we keep it
Coming different every summer.
Don't be amazed cause of me,
Be amazed cause the v came with a five year opped out lease (yea)
That's cause I paid what I paid if you
Paid like I'm paid den yo cribs came wit the maids
And if it didn't den you slipping catch up but by the time you do I'll probably do it different.
I'm advanced the the pants see the kicks see the stones on the risk u see the phone on my hip? (where it at?) it's right there up to date please see clear
Its no blur yes sir.
[Chorus: x2]
[Snoop]
Shooting niggas down, slapping bitches up, straight cash strut with some heny in my cup.
Rude for the hell of it, I should be the president hey yo homey
Doggy dogg got the medicine (where, where?) in the cabinet,
I'm the magnet, of attracting the badest bitches on the planet dig it.
I once was a pup never scared to run up I did it till the day I came up and stars do shine,
I take my 32 lines and try to make you unwind first I,
Chop um and den some, flop um den flip um, break um and bend um,
Den fix um convince them to buy my records
Cause you know its all hits spread the word cause you know its the shit! Quit
Playing go get it quit hesitating its the young and the big on the real my nig.
[Chorus: x4]
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