"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.
My enemies, they ain't gone, they remember me!
Power on the, power on the
Money brings flees they put, put pop queens on ease.
Genetics is like the genes on dirty,
It's seven thirty and I feel like early,
I tried betting on these
Make the solo
Life's is been pushing me to the limit,
Of just getting by, there's no way to live it!
What are you taking me for?
Try to take you're be laying on the floor.
Some of these comrades were grieving here before,
I'm losing, losing, every time I'm leave it on the door.
They don't respect war,
This is the reason not to fall,
Heaven's door got to be better than have been seen before,
[Chorus]
Enough talking, let's take it to war!
Stay laying on the floor,
What are you taking me for?
I'll fall
I'd rather be not here and hungry,
I'm sick when I'm not near my money,
They want me to lose but I'm gonna win,
I made it here before; I know I can make it again.
I retaliate straight,
For me to end that's miracle,
Something chemical
I show shadow, I'm all
The for twenty four hours,
You're cowards, on my super powers,
Super dollars,
You've been drowning, I found
She and John are in front of the new battalion,
I don't cuddle,
No need for
Jealousy and crime telling,
Keep the neighborhood on edge,
Ain't nobody smiling for.
[Chorus]
Good, good and spell on my lungs,
Pick up on a form, I'm done.
Being broke at thirty give you chills,
Make the girls talk
Disrespect the hatred and learn to live some,
Being this between me and you,
And I'm a pill, my thoughts are
Driven of the old school.
So don't merge in my lane,
Tell what a game,
I built a
[Chorus]
Power on the, power on the
Money brings flees they put, put pop queens on ease.
Genetics is like the genes on dirty,
It's seven thirty and I feel like early,
I tried betting on these
Make the solo
Life's is been pushing me to the limit,
Of just getting by, there's no way to live it!
What are you taking me for?
Try to take you're be laying on the floor.
Some of these comrades were grieving here before,
I'm losing, losing, every time I'm leave it on the door.
They don't respect war,
This is the reason not to fall,
Heaven's door got to be better than have been seen before,
[Chorus]
Enough talking, let's take it to war!
Stay laying on the floor,
What are you taking me for?
I'll fall
I'd rather be not here and hungry,
I'm sick when I'm not near my money,
They want me to lose but I'm gonna win,
I made it here before; I know I can make it again.
I retaliate straight,
For me to end that's miracle,
Something chemical
I show shadow, I'm all
The for twenty four hours,
You're cowards, on my super powers,
Super dollars,
You've been drowning, I found
She and John are in front of the new battalion,
I don't cuddle,
No need for
Jealousy and crime telling,
Keep the neighborhood on edge,
Ain't nobody smiling for.
[Chorus]
Good, good and spell on my lungs,
Pick up on a form, I'm done.
Being broke at thirty give you chills,
Make the girls talk
Disrespect the hatred and learn to live some,
Being this between me and you,
And I'm a pill, my thoughts are
Driven of the old school.
So don't merge in my lane,
Tell what a game,
I built a
[Chorus]
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Take 'Em to War Lyrics as written by Christopher Charles Lloyd Carl E. Mccormick
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