"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.
Woo!
Music up please!
Born and raised in the U.S.A
By the way of New Orleans where the Killas stay, OK
Uh alright, yeah
Born and raised in the U.S.A
Where the governments watching what you do and say
Ay well alright, yea
Well I'm a tell you this story bout a n**** wit' glory
Ya I come from piss poor and now I live in six stories houses
Now hows this
Listening to my own voice in my black Rolls Royce
Get the girls of my choice to take off their shorts and blouses
Ha ha take off my trousers, ya
Ya don't know nothing bout this!
Ay! I'm a dope boy wit a guitar
Hey daddy can ya let me
Ride wit' the band in the back seat
Riding wit' the dope boy! (I'm a dope boy wit a guitar)
Tell 'em if they looking for me
I'm on the road to the next city
Riding wit' the dope boy!
Dope boy wit' a guitar
Born and raised in the U.S.A
By the way of New Orleans where the killas stay
But that's OK, yea, that's alright! ya
I'm loved and praised in the U.S.A
My ancestors where slaves in the U.S.A
But now today, its alright
Yea
Come on!
Ooh!
Dope boy wit' a guitar!
Hey daddy can ya let me (yea)
Ride wit' the band in the back seat
Riding wit' the dope boy! (I'm a dope boy wit' a guitar)
Tell 'em if they looking for me (damn)
I'm on the road to the next city
Riding wit' the dope boy! (woo!)
Bridge!
Born and raised in the U.S.A
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
I was born and raised in the U.S.A
And all I wanna do is play
So turn me up
Turn me up
So turn me up!
So turn me up!
Music up please!
Born and raised in the U.S.A
By the way of New Orleans where the Killas stay, OK
Uh alright, yeah
Born and raised in the U.S.A
Where the governments watching what you do and say
Ay well alright, yea
Well I'm a tell you this story bout a n**** wit' glory
Ya I come from piss poor and now I live in six stories houses
Now hows this
Listening to my own voice in my black Rolls Royce
Get the girls of my choice to take off their shorts and blouses
Ha ha take off my trousers, ya
Ya don't know nothing bout this!
Ay! I'm a dope boy wit a guitar
Hey daddy can ya let me
Ride wit' the band in the back seat
Riding wit' the dope boy! (I'm a dope boy wit a guitar)
Tell 'em if they looking for me
I'm on the road to the next city
Riding wit' the dope boy!
Dope boy wit' a guitar
Born and raised in the U.S.A
By the way of New Orleans where the killas stay
But that's OK, yea, that's alright! ya
I'm loved and praised in the U.S.A
My ancestors where slaves in the U.S.A
But now today, its alright
Yea
Come on!
Ooh!
Dope boy wit' a guitar!
Hey daddy can ya let me (yea)
Ride wit' the band in the back seat
Riding wit' the dope boy! (I'm a dope boy wit' a guitar)
Tell 'em if they looking for me (damn)
I'm on the road to the next city
Riding wit' the dope boy! (woo!)
Bridge!
Born and raised in the U.S.A
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
Where my president is B-L-A-C-K
I was born and raised in the U.S.A
And all I wanna do is play
So turn me up
Turn me up
So turn me up!
So turn me up!
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American Star Lyrics as written by Johnny Mollings Dwayne Carter
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