"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.
I ain't got no time for no bitches
I gotta clock my dough clownin'
Hittin' switches in a green 6-4
With the drink on deck and the bombest indo
A car full of gas and nowhere to go
I gets a call on the phone "what's happenin'?"
Pimpin', chillin' with bitches drinking silver satin
Is them bitches on deck, on deck to the fullest
Got that type of game and I'm know just to pull 'em
Now as I stroll and as I pass by
I'm maxin' with my doggs feelin' dandy and high
Is that looney motherfucker that they call Kurupt
Billin' out the house with some gin in his cup
Now I found myself blowin' out smoke
Bombed out looney and locced
Open up them doors let me see some of the hoes
It's kurupt and I'm liable to fuck three or four
I'm hittin' hoes like I'm hittin' licks
But I don't love that trick bitch
'Cause bitches gettin' niggas dick sick
I don't pay pay rent, my rent gets paid
I pimp hoes like silky train
On and on it goes
I thought these motherfuckers knew, but now you know
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
1975 I was just a young pup
Tryin' to learn to be a dogg
But in the process steadily gettin' fucked
I met this lil' sexy dame y'all (I once had a bitch named Annie Mae)
Before I knew all the rules to the game
It ain't no need to lie (about shit)
A lil' nigga like me got played
And if she left me I thought I'd die y'all
Don't ask, I don't the reason why
Thought she was sent from the heavens above y'all
It's just a bad taste of puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Sometimes I sit and think of how I used to be
Before I got converted to a d-o-double g
I'd like to thank that girl
From way back in the days
Cause if it weren't for you I wouldn't pimp this way
Call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love call it what you want
Puppy love, call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love call it what you want
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
I gotta clock my dough clownin'
Hittin' switches in a green 6-4
With the drink on deck and the bombest indo
A car full of gas and nowhere to go
I gets a call on the phone "what's happenin'?"
Pimpin', chillin' with bitches drinking silver satin
Is them bitches on deck, on deck to the fullest
Got that type of game and I'm know just to pull 'em
Now as I stroll and as I pass by
I'm maxin' with my doggs feelin' dandy and high
Is that looney motherfucker that they call Kurupt
Billin' out the house with some gin in his cup
Now I found myself blowin' out smoke
Bombed out looney and locced
Open up them doors let me see some of the hoes
It's kurupt and I'm liable to fuck three or four
I'm hittin' hoes like I'm hittin' licks
But I don't love that trick bitch
'Cause bitches gettin' niggas dick sick
I don't pay pay rent, my rent gets paid
I pimp hoes like silky train
On and on it goes
I thought these motherfuckers knew, but now you know
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
1975 I was just a young pup
Tryin' to learn to be a dogg
But in the process steadily gettin' fucked
I met this lil' sexy dame y'all (I once had a bitch named Annie Mae)
Before I knew all the rules to the game
It ain't no need to lie (about shit)
A lil' nigga like me got played
And if she left me I thought I'd die y'all
Don't ask, I don't the reason why
Thought she was sent from the heavens above y'all
It's just a bad taste of puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Sometimes I sit and think of how I used to be
Before I got converted to a d-o-double g
I'd like to thank that girl
From way back in the days
Cause if it weren't for you I wouldn't pimp this way
Call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love call it what you want
Puppy love, call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love call it what you want
Puppy love call it what you want, bitch
Puppy love, call it what you want
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
Puppy love
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