"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 said fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
T Raww go stay Westside, killa' cat pillar,
No ceiling, probably worth ten million
Poor nigga watch chilla, you ain't even gotta feel it
That's chin chinchilla flyer than a caterpillar
I sick my dogs at you, yeah
They ain't call the dog catcher, bitch
Spark the fire, no matches, yeah
So high just laughing, hah
Burners in the attic, they ain't know I had it
Shoot sporadic, fire automatic, pop a target
Driving backwards, I'm a hundred bill fanatic
Bring the static, make vows to the money, but I skipped marriage
Keep staring, rather die that nigga than live average, get you embarrassed
Thousand karats on my wheel that my kids inherit
Black card credit, told them I don't use debit
Nigga know that's my motto, I could do this shit forever so
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, talkin' get you hit up
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
We don't rock with them niggas anyway, fuck 'em
We'd ever caught them in the hood, we'd a stuck 'em
Things coming in, we get them off by the dozen
We about that action, y'all ain't about nothin'
Girl of your dreams, I already had her
If it ain't my team, it don't really matter
Short stay, I'm only in town for the figures
Even when I'm up, I'm still down for my niggas
Nothing else, don't concern me or worry me
Nah, I'ma ride 'til they burn me or bury me
'Cause the truth is, niggas die every day
Heard about me, I hope you heard thoroughly
I don't switch sides, I just switch rides
Might just get a little head, let the bitch slide
Knowing that I can, knowing that I will
Far as the other side go, you know how I feel
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, talkin' get you hit up
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
T Raww go stay Westside, killa' cat pillar,
No ceiling, probably worth ten million
Poor nigga watch chilla, you ain't even gotta feel it
That's chin chinchilla flyer than a caterpillar
I sick my dogs at you, yeah
They ain't call the dog catcher, bitch
Spark the fire, no matches, yeah
So high just laughing, hah
Burners in the attic, they ain't know I had it
Shoot sporadic, fire automatic, pop a target
Driving backwards, I'm a hundred bill fanatic
Bring the static, make vows to the money, but I skipped marriage
Keep staring, rather die that nigga than live average, get you embarrassed
Thousand karats on my wheel that my kids inherit
Black card credit, told them I don't use debit
Nigga know that's my motto, I could do this shit forever so
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, talkin' get you hit up
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
We don't rock with them niggas anyway, fuck 'em
We'd ever caught them in the hood, we'd a stuck 'em
Things coming in, we get them off by the dozen
We about that action, y'all ain't about nothin'
Girl of your dreams, I already had her
If it ain't my team, it don't really matter
Short stay, I'm only in town for the figures
Even when I'm up, I'm still down for my niggas
Nothing else, don't concern me or worry me
Nah, I'ma ride 'til they burn me or bury me
'Cause the truth is, niggas die every day
Heard about me, I hope you heard thoroughly
I don't switch sides, I just switch rides
Might just get a little head, let the bitch slide
Knowing that I can, knowing that I will
Far as the other side go, you know how I feel
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, talkin' get you hit up
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, 'cause I'm down for my niggas
Fuck them other niggas, I ride for my niggas
I die for my niggas, nigga I hit 'em up
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Hit'em Up Lyrics as written by Jess Reed Jackson Dijon Isaiah Mcfarlane
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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