"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.
Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, Bounce
Repeat
But a mi got the bang wid di billie bang skeng
A mi got the bang wid di Shocking Vibes deng
Repeat
[Chorus 1]
Everybody's talking all the crap about me
Why they just don't let me live
Tell me why
(He's the girls dem sugar)
It's my decision and that's my paragative
They say I'm crazy and they even said I'm (beep)
While I'm living on the girls dem way
So move wid yuh nasty question
You try to destroy my life
Ooh, just llow a man
Mek him deejay him tune and try to survive
[Chorus 2:]
Bad mind is active (ah)
Den a watch nex people business
Bad mind is active (ah, ah, ah, ah)
And its the way the they want to live
Bad mind is active (ah, ah)
Dem neva stop and think positive
Bad mind is active (ah, ah) But all pon dem mind is negative
Everybody asking me what's the dealio
How mi naah throw nuh wud, I'm just chillio
Number one mi meking part two oh no
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no zero
Listen how mi voice clean through di stereo
How yuh fi slam mi I'm no mono
How yuh fi dis mi, I'm the star of the show
I'm a movie star and the world done know
I'm the king rapper dancehall disco
I'm not a groupie, well I'm just solo
Pull it mi selector waan yuh tek it down low
Come all my fans let mi tell yuh what mi know
Why the girls really love Beenie Man (Beenie)
Mi and mi girls a flex through Ontario
Drinking Alozane, driving the limo
Ohh, gee, ahh, let's go
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no jigalo
Mi and mi friend Future Troubles flexing hi-pro
Mi hear a knock pon mi door
When mi look out nuh Suzanne and Flo
Whem mi si weh dem a carry well mi interest grow
Like a cupid a so mi fire mi arrow
Bup she get it down inna de burrow
Oh cho, a so di punch line go
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
But hear sey hey some bwoy a ketcher
Some bwoy a tekka, dem a wrecker
Don't trust dem, dem a penny ketcher
How yuh fi dis mi when yuh ever lesser, never better
Listen to the Brother Proper
Some bwoy dem all a style man as fella
When mi dome have Angella, Anabella
Mi use to date all Cinderella
When she run lef di silver slipper
Ah, ah, ah, ah some bwoy a flex like liar liar
Now mi friend this is a girls roll call
Nuff shot fall beat nuff ball, woman a stall
Repeat
But a mi got the bang wid di billie bang skeng
A mi got the bang wid di Shocking Vibes deng
Repeat
[Chorus 1]
Everybody's talking all the crap about me
Why they just don't let me live
Tell me why
(He's the girls dem sugar)
It's my decision and that's my paragative
They say I'm crazy and they even said I'm (beep)
While I'm living on the girls dem way
So move wid yuh nasty question
You try to destroy my life
Ooh, just llow a man
Mek him deejay him tune and try to survive
[Chorus 2:]
Bad mind is active (ah)
Den a watch nex people business
Bad mind is active (ah, ah, ah, ah)
And its the way the they want to live
Bad mind is active (ah, ah)
Dem neva stop and think positive
Bad mind is active (ah, ah) But all pon dem mind is negative
Everybody asking me what's the dealio
How mi naah throw nuh wud, I'm just chillio
Number one mi meking part two oh no
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no zero
Listen how mi voice clean through di stereo
How yuh fi slam mi I'm no mono
How yuh fi dis mi, I'm the star of the show
I'm a movie star and the world done know
I'm the king rapper dancehall disco
I'm not a groupie, well I'm just solo
Pull it mi selector waan yuh tek it down low
Come all my fans let mi tell yuh what mi know
Why the girls really love Beenie Man (Beenie)
Mi and mi girls a flex through Ontario
Drinking Alozane, driving the limo
Ohh, gee, ahh, let's go
How yuh fi dis mi when I'm no jigalo
Mi and mi friend Future Troubles flexing hi-pro
Mi hear a knock pon mi door
When mi look out nuh Suzanne and Flo
Whem mi si weh dem a carry well mi interest grow
Like a cupid a so mi fire mi arrow
Bup she get it down inna de burrow
Oh cho, a so di punch line go
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
But hear sey hey some bwoy a ketcher
Some bwoy a tekka, dem a wrecker
Don't trust dem, dem a penny ketcher
How yuh fi dis mi when yuh ever lesser, never better
Listen to the Brother Proper
Some bwoy dem all a style man as fella
When mi dome have Angella, Anabella
Mi use to date all Cinderella
When she run lef di silver slipper
Ah, ah, ah, ah some bwoy a flex like liar liar
Now mi friend this is a girls roll call
Nuff shot fall beat nuff ball, woman a stall
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