"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'm a bad motherfucker not a fucking role model
Fuck church, hit a bong, then go smash a fucking bottle
Got a few sluts to help me roll a few blunts
And they never question me cause they know I hate cunts
Oh
Eat my words and swallow my sentences
Here we go you fucking asshole
Living off the dirt on my shoes, does it keep you alive?
What about that life
Hold me accountable
You're itching for the money that I use to wipe my ass
Here's some shitty Benjamin's
Too bad they'll never help you buy some fucking class
Trapped in a world where money controls you
Hustle hard or be a piece of shit
Watching the tears rolling down your face
I'm throwing away diamonds
I like a bad bitch
She fucks me all night
Then she counts my money while I'm on my play station
Every moment's always filled with sensation
Always fucking blazing America's my nation
I wouldn't have it any other fucking way
I'm about this fucking life I hustle hard and then I play
Put your lips on my dick so you can taste success
That's the shit swallow and don't spit
What about that life
Trapped in a world where money controls you
Hustle hard or be a piece of shit
Watching the tears rolling down your face
I'm throwing away diamonds
On and on it never stops till the money's gone
Rip this bong and get yo money bitch start stacking the paper
I had diamonds but I threw them away 'cause I don't give a fuck
Suck my fuck
She rides my dick like it's a merry go round
And I just bust my nut on her
Let me tell you something
Tighter than a virgin
Making money like a surgeon
And we stack it to the roof
Because my pockets started hurting
Balling and hauling and taking over like I'm Stalin
Got a few fucks but I do not give them to anyone.
Holy shit
I guess I'm really just about that life
Suck my fuck
Fuck church, hit a bong, then go smash a fucking bottle
Got a few sluts to help me roll a few blunts
And they never question me cause they know I hate cunts
Oh
Eat my words and swallow my sentences
Here we go you fucking asshole
Living off the dirt on my shoes, does it keep you alive?
What about that life
Hold me accountable
You're itching for the money that I use to wipe my ass
Here's some shitty Benjamin's
Too bad they'll never help you buy some fucking class
Trapped in a world where money controls you
Hustle hard or be a piece of shit
Watching the tears rolling down your face
I'm throwing away diamonds
I like a bad bitch
She fucks me all night
Then she counts my money while I'm on my play station
Every moment's always filled with sensation
Always fucking blazing America's my nation
I wouldn't have it any other fucking way
I'm about this fucking life I hustle hard and then I play
Put your lips on my dick so you can taste success
That's the shit swallow and don't spit
What about that life
Trapped in a world where money controls you
Hustle hard or be a piece of shit
Watching the tears rolling down your face
I'm throwing away diamonds
On and on it never stops till the money's gone
Rip this bong and get yo money bitch start stacking the paper
I had diamonds but I threw them away 'cause I don't give a fuck
Suck my fuck
She rides my dick like it's a merry go round
And I just bust my nut on her
Let me tell you something
Tighter than a virgin
Making money like a surgeon
And we stack it to the roof
Because my pockets started hurting
Balling and hauling and taking over like I'm Stalin
Got a few fucks but I do not give them to anyone.
Holy shit
I guess I'm really just about that life
Suck my fuck
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I dunno man, they're tote's some good Christian rock.
"Making money like a surgeon And we stack it to the roof Because my pockets started hurting Balling and hauling and taking over like I'm Stalin"
I started crying when I heard these lyrics omfg
Honestly, these guys are just living their lives... while they're kinda strange, they're allowed to do that.