"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.
Extravagant Hendrix
Switch hands like lil' pitcher
Super astronomical
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' 'em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
Three rings on my left, I feel like King James
They see the way we represent, they see the way we get it
You can't be never slippin', you gotta show you're different
I came through and took all they bitches with me
Nigga I get all the way faded, I can't get tipsy
I'm eating something, start busting and rushing on a daily basis, I'm guilty
Let this champagne start flowin', drink it up 'til it's empty
Got this V.I.p. Section burnin' like a chimney
We ain't gotta emphasize nobody, we done bought the building
Let's go zip out to Australia, we can go to Switzerland
We got a chauffeur and a translator for it, he don't speak English
Sometimes when you speak from your soul it sound like you singing
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
Gotta put a whole lot of kush into my lungs
I put a whole lot of work and I just begun
And when that green money on the turf, it's their call
Gotta put that steel under my shirt and do it large
Fuck the cops, she gon' ride you like my dog
Chinchilla, I put it on and let it fall
Gorilla, let it drag on the floor
I forgot to get the money, lay low
We take shoppin' sprees, I can bring the store to me
I don't get top money, please, bitch I'm out they league
Raf Simons, Rick Owens, cost 200 G's
Cash out mad G's, bustin' down AP's
Hand made one of one Riccardo Tisci
Crystal diamonds on my sleeves, L-O-V-E
Changed the whips about a week, yes I do agree
Louis V on my carry-on, yes indeed
Have to pay for it tonight as you charge a fee
Order the PJ at one, we land tomorrow at three
Steak and shrimps, caviar for seven days
Let's flick it up for my dawgs in the cage
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
I'm a keep it real with you
Lookin' exotic
Got a half mil' on me
I'm 'bout to recount it now
Switch hands like lil' pitcher
Super astronomical
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' 'em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
Three rings on my left, I feel like King James
They see the way we represent, they see the way we get it
You can't be never slippin', you gotta show you're different
I came through and took all they bitches with me
Nigga I get all the way faded, I can't get tipsy
I'm eating something, start busting and rushing on a daily basis, I'm guilty
Let this champagne start flowin', drink it up 'til it's empty
Got this V.I.p. Section burnin' like a chimney
We ain't gotta emphasize nobody, we done bought the building
Let's go zip out to Australia, we can go to Switzerland
We got a chauffeur and a translator for it, he don't speak English
Sometimes when you speak from your soul it sound like you singing
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
Gotta put a whole lot of kush into my lungs
I put a whole lot of work and I just begun
And when that green money on the turf, it's their call
Gotta put that steel under my shirt and do it large
Fuck the cops, she gon' ride you like my dog
Chinchilla, I put it on and let it fall
Gorilla, let it drag on the floor
I forgot to get the money, lay low
We take shoppin' sprees, I can bring the store to me
I don't get top money, please, bitch I'm out they league
Raf Simons, Rick Owens, cost 200 G's
Cash out mad G's, bustin' down AP's
Hand made one of one Riccardo Tisci
Crystal diamonds on my sleeves, L-O-V-E
Changed the whips about a week, yes I do agree
Louis V on my carry-on, yes indeed
Have to pay for it tonight as you charge a fee
Order the PJ at one, we land tomorrow at three
Steak and shrimps, caviar for seven days
Let's flick it up for my dawgs in the cage
Peel you off a couple bands, girl like "Here you go"
Then lookin' like the baddest bitch in my videos
I wanna take you out to Paris and buy you better clothes
White Phantom, white Phantom or the white rose
We livin' marvelous, we livin' marvelous
Hit your girl up and tell' em that you're all iced up (iced up)
I try my best to put my ego first, I need to stop it
Keep it real, you lookin' exotic, no
I'm a keep it real with you
Lookin' exotic
Got a half mil' on me
I'm 'bout to recount it now
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Lookin' Exotic Lyrics as written by Joshua Luellen Jacob Brian Dutton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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