"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.
“And it's not smart to be dumb
It's not smart to be dumb dumb de dumb dumb dumb
Back where I come from it's not considered smart to be dumb”
[Immortal Technique]
I coulda chose another life with feds try'na get me
Little kids putting work in like at Gap and Disney
In the whip high as shit like Bobby and Whitney
Grab your hand and push the motherfuckin' pedal to sixty
Harlem cops frisk me to get me to make their quotas
But I told yo, “Siempre hay que separar las drogas”
Bar brawl in the club popping and rocking jaws
Shot it out leaving bullet holes the size of matzu balls
I love thick chicks, never fucked with a slim broad
Played soccer and hammered nails into their shin guards
Gambled at cee-lo with Dominicans locked in the tombs
We was there for robbing niggas for them Spanish doubloons
Remember Goonie-era graffiti of all sorts
Now they wanna foreclose on the hood to build a golf course
I'll put your hand in a blender to make an entree
Then cut your dick off and glue it back on the wrong way
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
[Swave Sevah]
I'm a certified Goonie, the type to burglarize your crib
And leave it smellin' like sour and Afghan gooey
Life is a movie but yours was filmed on a greener screen
I give you pure uncut raw no deleted scenes
War with a broadsword dumping a tech nine
Slit your throat give you a Colombian neck tie
The best buy to get we let die let fly the next guy to try some shit
Listen, a few words just to describe my clique
We like a gang of Spartans, walking on the Gaza Strip
Never say die it's time to fight and we never run
My Goonies rob niggas for jewelry, we call 'em treasure hunts
Let him front like he a tough guy with wippe?
I'll hit 'em slug turn him to one eye Willy water grave hide ya chips
I'll hijack ya boat and cruise away on my pirate ship
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers had better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
[Diabolic]
Before Duncan Pinderhughes was runnin' with Doug E. Doug
My team got away with murder we ain't fit the bloody glove
Those jungle breeze and we come to feed our hungry cubs
With hoes pulling out our pipes like Goonies under country clubs
Let these funny thugs know whoever steps in 'Bolic's spot
Is getting crushed with solid rock like Chester Copperpot
I suggest the drama stops I'll flood blocks with mustard gas
You're up shit's creek in a rubber raft cut in half
Cross my fucking path I'll dare you I'll mangle who lit the fuse
Quick to lose my marbles like Mikey replacing his with jewels
Watching y'all enslave the game I'm forced to say the truth
Break the chains quick as sloth reaching for baby roof
We got AD proof and whores in daisy dukes extra low
While fat bitches do the truffle shuffle just to get in shows
Fuck what your record sol respect the code and recognize
The rebel tribe that my people kept alive will never die
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers had better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
It's not smart to be dumb dumb de dumb dumb dumb
Back where I come from it's not considered smart to be dumb”
[Immortal Technique]
I coulda chose another life with feds try'na get me
Little kids putting work in like at Gap and Disney
In the whip high as shit like Bobby and Whitney
Grab your hand and push the motherfuckin' pedal to sixty
Harlem cops frisk me to get me to make their quotas
But I told yo, “Siempre hay que separar las drogas”
Bar brawl in the club popping and rocking jaws
Shot it out leaving bullet holes the size of matzu balls
I love thick chicks, never fucked with a slim broad
Played soccer and hammered nails into their shin guards
Gambled at cee-lo with Dominicans locked in the tombs
We was there for robbing niggas for them Spanish doubloons
Remember Goonie-era graffiti of all sorts
Now they wanna foreclose on the hood to build a golf course
I'll put your hand in a blender to make an entree
Then cut your dick off and glue it back on the wrong way
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
[Swave Sevah]
I'm a certified Goonie, the type to burglarize your crib
And leave it smellin' like sour and Afghan gooey
Life is a movie but yours was filmed on a greener screen
I give you pure uncut raw no deleted scenes
War with a broadsword dumping a tech nine
Slit your throat give you a Colombian neck tie
The best buy to get we let die let fly the next guy to try some shit
Listen, a few words just to describe my clique
We like a gang of Spartans, walking on the Gaza Strip
Never say die it's time to fight and we never run
My Goonies rob niggas for jewelry, we call 'em treasure hunts
Let him front like he a tough guy with wippe?
I'll hit 'em slug turn him to one eye Willy water grave hide ya chips
I'll hijack ya boat and cruise away on my pirate ship
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers had better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
[Diabolic]
Before Duncan Pinderhughes was runnin' with Doug E. Doug
My team got away with murder we ain't fit the bloody glove
Those jungle breeze and we come to feed our hungry cubs
With hoes pulling out our pipes like Goonies under country clubs
Let these funny thugs know whoever steps in 'Bolic's spot
Is getting crushed with solid rock like Chester Copperpot
I suggest the drama stops I'll flood blocks with mustard gas
You're up shit's creek in a rubber raft cut in half
Cross my fucking path I'll dare you I'll mangle who lit the fuse
Quick to lose my marbles like Mikey replacing his with jewels
Watching y'all enslave the game I'm forced to say the truth
Break the chains quick as sloth reaching for baby roof
We got AD proof and whores in daisy dukes extra low
While fat bitches do the truffle shuffle just to get in shows
Fuck what your record sol respect the code and recognize
The rebel tribe that my people kept alive will never die
[Immortal Technique]
All my revolutionary soldiers had better ride
My words is mathematics bitch, numbers never lie
So even if they tell you I'm dead, nigga, I'm still alive
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Witness protection program, rappers better hide
I serve revenge out the freezer niggas never slide
So if they tell you I'm gone and you safe, niggas lied
Because, motherfucker, Goonies never die
Lyrics submitted by M4ND1BL3
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