"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.
[Chorus]
Baby don't, baby don't act so sweet
Just gimme that Cantaloupe.
That - that Cantaloupe
Tha- tha - tha- tha - that Cantaloupe.
Baby don't, baby don't act so sweet
Just gimme that Cantaloupe.
That - that, that Cantaloupe
Gimme that - gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Campa]
I be that shitty mother fucker, you hate him but you love him
You took a million shots while I beat it on the buzzer
Fly, sitting sideways, bitch I'm on another
Gettin' high on a Friday, call me Mr. Tucker
Tucker ice cubes, chilling in my ice room
Bitch I'm like a typhoon, kinda like a monsoon
I'm about to get you, wet you, take you to the vet like an animal
Baby don't act so sweet, just gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Cyrano]
Yo it's that shitty mother fucker, back up in the buildin'
Make that money bubble like the back of a Brazilian
Ow, Campa Cold my Bra, we the army.
Gettin' Cantaloupe from your Auntie, heard she got that Donkey
Extra Jalapeno, sippin' on vino
My dick is on "timber"! Tell her watch out below.
Don't watch me, watch T.V.
Livin' my dreams out while y'all sleep
While y'all freeze, I'm in beach clothes
Chillin' in a beach cove
Mean flow, but I ain't PMSin'
PML, though, pretty much a legend.
All these bitches stressin', but the money come first
And the pussy come second, man, it's time to go to work.
[Chorus x 4]
[Cyrano and Campa]
Here we go, Cyrano back with the lyrical miracle, Campa grab it.
These bitches on my Johnson.
Why?
'Cause I got that magic.
It's tragic, I told these kids not to play in traffic.
Don't get caught up in the fire when we come through Cataracin'.
Y'all be drivin', we be cabbin'
We're cabbin' up in Cali
Where these pretty YOUNG girls
Like to show their hidden valley.
I heard her name was Sally, but she go by Eden,
And she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season.
(And she - and she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season)
[Chorus x 4]
[Campa]
I be that shitty mother fucker, you hate him but you love him
You took a million shots while I beat it on the buzzer
Fly, sitting sideways, bitch I'm on another
Gettin' high on a Friday, call me Mr. Tucker
Tucker ice cubes, chilling in my ice room
Bitch I'm like a typhoon, kinda like a monsoon
I'm about to get you, wet you, take you to the vet like an animal
Baby don't act so sweet, just gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Chorus x4]
[x2]
I heard her name was Sally, but she go by Eden,
And she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season.
Baby don't, baby don't act so sweet
Just gimme that Cantaloupe.
That - that Cantaloupe
Tha- tha - tha- tha - that Cantaloupe.
Baby don't, baby don't act so sweet
Just gimme that Cantaloupe.
That - that, that Cantaloupe
Gimme that - gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Campa]
I be that shitty mother fucker, you hate him but you love him
You took a million shots while I beat it on the buzzer
Fly, sitting sideways, bitch I'm on another
Gettin' high on a Friday, call me Mr. Tucker
Tucker ice cubes, chilling in my ice room
Bitch I'm like a typhoon, kinda like a monsoon
I'm about to get you, wet you, take you to the vet like an animal
Baby don't act so sweet, just gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Cyrano]
Yo it's that shitty mother fucker, back up in the buildin'
Make that money bubble like the back of a Brazilian
Ow, Campa Cold my Bra, we the army.
Gettin' Cantaloupe from your Auntie, heard she got that Donkey
Extra Jalapeno, sippin' on vino
My dick is on "timber"! Tell her watch out below.
Don't watch me, watch T.V.
Livin' my dreams out while y'all sleep
While y'all freeze, I'm in beach clothes
Chillin' in a beach cove
Mean flow, but I ain't PMSin'
PML, though, pretty much a legend.
All these bitches stressin', but the money come first
And the pussy come second, man, it's time to go to work.
[Chorus x 4]
[Cyrano and Campa]
Here we go, Cyrano back with the lyrical miracle, Campa grab it.
These bitches on my Johnson.
Why?
'Cause I got that magic.
It's tragic, I told these kids not to play in traffic.
Don't get caught up in the fire when we come through Cataracin'.
Y'all be drivin', we be cabbin'
We're cabbin' up in Cali
Where these pretty YOUNG girls
Like to show their hidden valley.
I heard her name was Sally, but she go by Eden,
And she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season.
(And she - and she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season)
[Chorus x 4]
[Campa]
I be that shitty mother fucker, you hate him but you love him
You took a million shots while I beat it on the buzzer
Fly, sitting sideways, bitch I'm on another
Gettin' high on a Friday, call me Mr. Tucker
Tucker ice cubes, chilling in my ice room
Bitch I'm like a typhoon, kinda like a monsoon
I'm about to get you, wet you, take you to the vet like an animal
Baby don't act so sweet, just gimme that Cantaloupe.
[Chorus x4]
[x2]
I heard her name was Sally, but she go by Eden,
And she got that Cantaloupe that's ripe in every season.
Lyrics submitted by itsthecata
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