"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.
Have you ever been to South Beach
Tipsy with your bottles to the sky, sky, sky
Dancin' with this Puertorican princess
Damn girl, you got that look up on her eye
Well what you drinkin'? (I'm drinkin' champagne)
Well I was thinkin (What, what's your campaign?)
Champagne make me tipsy
Patron might make me sick
Attitude and vodka does the trick
Somebody pour me a sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
Have you ever been to Paris
With a model workin' on your French?
And you let her know your ballin'
And the coldest players comin' off the bench
Well, what you smokin'? (I smoke that good shit)
Across the ocean (but I'm on that hood shit)
Champagne make me tipsy
Patron make me sick
Attitude and vodka does the trick
Somebody pour me a sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your smoking like I'm smoking, put your hands in the air
If your smoking like I'm smoking, put your hands in the air
If your humping like I'm humping, put your hands in the air
If your humping like I'm humping, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
Sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
Tipsy with your bottles to the sky, sky, sky
Dancin' with this Puertorican princess
Damn girl, you got that look up on her eye
Well what you drinkin'? (I'm drinkin' champagne)
Well I was thinkin (What, what's your campaign?)
Champagne make me tipsy
Patron might make me sick
Attitude and vodka does the trick
Somebody pour me a sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
Have you ever been to Paris
With a model workin' on your French?
And you let her know your ballin'
And the coldest players comin' off the bench
Well, what you smokin'? (I smoke that good shit)
Across the ocean (but I'm on that hood shit)
Champagne make me tipsy
Patron make me sick
Attitude and vodka does the trick
Somebody pour me a sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your smoking like I'm smoking, put your hands in the air
If your smoking like I'm smoking, put your hands in the air
If your humping like I'm humping, put your hands in the air
If your humping like I'm humping, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
If your drinking like I'm drinking, put your hands in the air
Sex on the beach (that's how I like it)
Sex on the beach (I wanna have)
Sex on the beach (your body drive me crazy)
Sex on the beach (I wanna rock)
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Sex On the Beach Lyrics as written by Jamie Foxx Ainsworth Prasad
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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