"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.
Bitch lemme get that head
What the fuck is friends
She callin me lil twin
Guess she uppin bands
Throw her on the roster as a backup Trevor Siemien
Anytime time it's war
Just ask the bros I'm shootin 10/10
Man
Can't a pussy nigga touch me
Fumblin the sack
I ran it back
Call that a tuddy
Please make one mistake
I'm in your place
This shit ain't funny
I ain't care about no one on one
Go get your buddies
Lil Pussy
I'm out the door
I'm makin dough
Sonny see my face
He start to shit like smoking dope
I done seen some Niggas turn to fiends
Said fuck em bro
Man I be got damned I let a nigga leave me cold
Spend the winter with some shorties
I'm a pretty lil fucker
Had to change her name to Ryan
Cause she love givin me Succop
Thought I pulled up on a carpet
Cause I'm floatin in this bitch
Tat the city on the chest
Cause bitch you know the fuck it is
Tavvy hit her cellular
She start to do a backflip
Told her calm her ass down
I wanna see that ass twitch
Yeah throw it a circle
While I blow this Purple Urkel
Pour my 40 on that ass
Cause in my fridge I got a store full
Back with vengeance
Like a proton blast when the pen hits
How the flow the gas like a engine
Cause we don't hold we just send it
I could teach cookin crack to a infant
I could give some dick to your mama
Come around me talkin that big shit
Choppa named Kuzco
Meet my llama
You can make friends wit a coffin
Watch yo comment
Spin around the block so many times
They think we bought it
Man I got time for no drama or no problems
I a smack the shit out anyone
And get right back to walkin
Bitch it's Lil Tav
Say it right or you get fucked up
Lil Tav
Play me nice or you get stomped out
Lil Tav
Bitch you know the fuckin name
Lil Tav
Get the fuck up out my face
Bitch it's Lil Tav
Say it right or you get fucked up
Lil Tav
Play me nice or you get stomped out
Lil Tav
Bitch you know the fuckin name
Lil Tav
Get the fuck up out my face
What the fuck is friends
She callin me lil twin
Guess she uppin bands
Throw her on the roster as a backup Trevor Siemien
Anytime time it's war
Just ask the bros I'm shootin 10/10
Man
Can't a pussy nigga touch me
Fumblin the sack
I ran it back
Call that a tuddy
Please make one mistake
I'm in your place
This shit ain't funny
I ain't care about no one on one
Go get your buddies
Lil Pussy
I'm out the door
I'm makin dough
Sonny see my face
He start to shit like smoking dope
I done seen some Niggas turn to fiends
Said fuck em bro
Man I be got damned I let a nigga leave me cold
Spend the winter with some shorties
I'm a pretty lil fucker
Had to change her name to Ryan
Cause she love givin me Succop
Thought I pulled up on a carpet
Cause I'm floatin in this bitch
Tat the city on the chest
Cause bitch you know the fuck it is
Tavvy hit her cellular
She start to do a backflip
Told her calm her ass down
I wanna see that ass twitch
Yeah throw it a circle
While I blow this Purple Urkel
Pour my 40 on that ass
Cause in my fridge I got a store full
Back with vengeance
Like a proton blast when the pen hits
How the flow the gas like a engine
Cause we don't hold we just send it
I could teach cookin crack to a infant
I could give some dick to your mama
Come around me talkin that big shit
Choppa named Kuzco
Meet my llama
You can make friends wit a coffin
Watch yo comment
Spin around the block so many times
They think we bought it
Man I got time for no drama or no problems
I a smack the shit out anyone
And get right back to walkin
Bitch it's Lil Tav
Say it right or you get fucked up
Lil Tav
Play me nice or you get stomped out
Lil Tav
Bitch you know the fuckin name
Lil Tav
Get the fuck up out my face
Bitch it's Lil Tav
Say it right or you get fucked up
Lil Tav
Play me nice or you get stomped out
Lil Tav
Bitch you know the fuckin name
Lil Tav
Get the fuck up out my face
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