"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.
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
I was trying to ride in my Benz
She was posted up with her friends
I was hanging with my partnas
But I told that ass to get in
Girl let's go for a spin
You know a nigga got ends
She was checking out my
Checking out my
Checking out my rims
Hey girls let's hit the hotel
Make a movie more like the matinee
You know do some things you know well
Thug dashing baby that's Alize
My car was all in your lane
Them thoughts were all in your brain
My hands is all in your hurr'
But I won't tell your man
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Tryna to get you up to my stable
Lay you out on the table
Clear out all of them dishes
Let do it like we on cable
Cut out both of them phones
Girl you need to be sippin'
Champagne or that 'tron
Then the headboards'll you be gripping
My V.I.P is the b-e-d or the backseat of my ride
Fog up my windows so they can't see from my side
You can call my daddy I'm a call you baby
Girl you can get at me who be fucking you lately
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Yea shawty lemme see what you got
Lemme see if you sweating or lemme see if its hot
Lemme show you why I am and show you why not
Shoot 'em all night long shawty you ain't need to stop
How bout I pick you up and throw you in the middle of the bed
Till you're over on your stomach start kissing from your neck
To your back to your thigh to the middle of the web
Keep going and going till you scream out damn
Yea baby I'm something like a nympho
A Saint Louis M.O. with a pimp flow
So hold on like your in for it
And get low show what you're in for
A whole lotta banging a whole lotta nice
Like a heavyweight fight with a '86 mike
Tyson slicing and you Holyfield biting
Biting biting
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
To you
Don't it feel good
Hey hey
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
I was trying to ride in my Benz
She was posted up with her friends
I was hanging with my partnas
But I told that ass to get in
Girl let's go for a spin
You know a nigga got ends
She was checking out my
Checking out my
Checking out my rims
Hey girls let's hit the hotel
Make a movie more like the matinee
You know do some things you know well
Thug dashing baby that's Alize
My car was all in your lane
Them thoughts were all in your brain
My hands is all in your hurr'
But I won't tell your man
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Tryna to get you up to my stable
Lay you out on the table
Clear out all of them dishes
Let do it like we on cable
Cut out both of them phones
Girl you need to be sippin'
Champagne or that 'tron
Then the headboards'll you be gripping
My V.I.P is the b-e-d or the backseat of my ride
Fog up my windows so they can't see from my side
You can call my daddy I'm a call you baby
Girl you can get at me who be fucking you lately
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Yea shawty lemme see what you got
Lemme see if you sweating or lemme see if its hot
Lemme show you why I am and show you why not
Shoot 'em all night long shawty you ain't need to stop
How bout I pick you up and throw you in the middle of the bed
Till you're over on your stomach start kissing from your neck
To your back to your thigh to the middle of the web
Keep going and going till you scream out damn
Yea baby I'm something like a nympho
A Saint Louis M.O. with a pimp flow
So hold on like your in for it
And get low show what you're in for
A whole lotta banging a whole lotta nice
Like a heavyweight fight with a '86 mike
Tyson slicing and you Holyfield biting
Biting biting
You better not let go
'Cause you ain't you even you ain't even close
Just wait until I get you out those clothes (out your clothes)
I'm a show what your body's for, I wanna know
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you girl
Hey don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Hey to you
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
Don't it feel good
Don't it feel good baby don't it feel good to you
To you
Don't it feel good
Hey hey
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Don't It Feel Good Lyrics as written by Eric Goudy Richard Butler
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