"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 got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
This is for the little girls
That say "Nicki, you pretty"
When you come to the city
You don't act hassadiddy
You be all on the block
Or posted up in the drop
And everybody get a band
Whether you like it or not
But how you girls blow up
And don't come to the hood
How they turn their nose up
Like they don't come from the hood
Most of them be in sight
'Til it's time for picture
That's why everything
They write be a contradiction
I tell 'em I do it for the love
I do it for the hugs i do it for the bugs
I do it for the thugs i do it for the rich
I do it for the poor i do it for the kid
That can't do no more
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
This is for my lil homies
That be asking for kisses
When I'm granting their wishes
They be passing they digit's
Carry up on the block
Getting screwed by the cop
Cutting school, getting off
Whether they like it or not
They'll break in your dough
Might break in your joe
They'll bring back a lot
If you bring them an O
But what you really ain't know
They airborne for start
With the ball in the gutter
They can't turn no dodge
No matter the squadron lieutenant or sergent
Air force the army air force in army
Four teets is on 'em no heat is on 'em
'Cause grandmama prayed
That he leave the corner
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
I remember when I lost everything in a fire
And now I got fire 23s on my tire
Shoutout to my brothers jelani and Micaiah
Thanks to the Messiah
My money getting higher
One time for my niggas
That be hugging the block
Two times for my niggas
That be ducking the cop
Three times for my girls
That pushing they own ride
Specially they own life
Bitches they don't like
Sometimes you get mad when I blaze the gun
I see you without a man may I raise your son
But look, when you blow up
Everybody gon' shut up
This goes out to everybody on the come up
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
This is for the little girls
That say "Nicki, you pretty"
When you come to the city
You don't act hassadiddy
You be all on the block
Or posted up in the drop
And everybody get a band
Whether you like it or not
But how you girls blow up
And don't come to the hood
How they turn their nose up
Like they don't come from the hood
Most of them be in sight
'Til it's time for picture
That's why everything
They write be a contradiction
I tell 'em I do it for the love
I do it for the hugs i do it for the bugs
I do it for the thugs i do it for the rich
I do it for the poor i do it for the kid
That can't do no more
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
This is for my lil homies
That be asking for kisses
When I'm granting their wishes
They be passing they digit's
Carry up on the block
Getting screwed by the cop
Cutting school, getting off
Whether they like it or not
They'll break in your dough
Might break in your joe
They'll bring back a lot
If you bring them an O
But what you really ain't know
They airborne for start
With the ball in the gutter
They can't turn no dodge
No matter the squadron lieutenant or sergent
Air force the army air force in army
Four teets is on 'em no heat is on 'em
'Cause grandmama prayed
That he leave the corner
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
I remember when I lost everything in a fire
And now I got fire 23s on my tire
Shoutout to my brothers jelani and Micaiah
Thanks to the Messiah
My money getting higher
One time for my niggas
That be hugging the block
Two times for my niggas
That be ducking the cop
Three times for my girls
That pushing they own ride
Specially they own life
Bitches they don't like
Sometimes you get mad when I blaze the gun
I see you without a man may I raise your son
But look, when you blow up
Everybody gon' shut up
This goes out to everybody on the come up
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next i'm on my grind
I got next i'm gonna shine
I got next it's my time
I got next to get mine
I got next and it don't matter
What they say we gon' make it
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