"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.
Yah
Ayy yo Calvin Harris, they ain't see this one comin'! (Yah)
Another one
Yah, yah
We the Best Music! DJ Khaled
You know I like 'em special made for me
I call 'em and they demonstrate for me
Spent 200K up on that body, yeah
'Cause my lil' baby ain't for everybody, yeah
That's why I hit her with that upgrade (upgrade)
I told her, "Stunt, that's the upstage" (upstage, upstage)
Everything up and up, babe (up, up and up, babe)
Out here ballin' like we upstate
Oh, I drip her down in gold (drip, drip, drip, drip it up)
She used to tell me no
But who could tell me no? Yeah
Just how it goes, she sees the O's (yah, yah)
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes, but that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (Let's go!)
Drip lil' baby down in VVS' (VVS)
Cuban link, girl that's a new connection (Cuban link)
It's me and you 'cause we in the selection (select)
Throw it back like it's your new profession (new profession)
Yuh, like you get paid for it
Good brain like you get grades for it
Woodgrain, you got a taste for it
Leather soft, your body made for it (yah!)
Oh, I drip her down in gold (drip, drip, drip, drip it up)
She used to tell me no
But who could tell me no? Yeah
Just how it goes, she sees the O's (yah, yah)
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes, but that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (let's ride!)
Baby can we pick it up?
Come over here and sit down
Lil' mama got a vibe, let's ride
On it for a couple weeks now
Yeah, you know it's you and me now
Top off with the seats down
Baby I'm a savage
Gassed up, couldn't pass it
Ran it back like a rerun
She sittin' pretty like a classic
Green light, we on go
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes
But that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (Let's go!)
Yah, yah
Another one
Ayy yo Calvin Harris, they ain't see this one comin'! (Yah)
Another one
Yah, yah
We the Best Music! DJ Khaled
You know I like 'em special made for me
I call 'em and they demonstrate for me
Spent 200K up on that body, yeah
'Cause my lil' baby ain't for everybody, yeah
That's why I hit her with that upgrade (upgrade)
I told her, "Stunt, that's the upstage" (upstage, upstage)
Everything up and up, babe (up, up and up, babe)
Out here ballin' like we upstate
Oh, I drip her down in gold (drip, drip, drip, drip it up)
She used to tell me no
But who could tell me no? Yeah
Just how it goes, she sees the O's (yah, yah)
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes, but that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (Let's go!)
Drip lil' baby down in VVS' (VVS)
Cuban link, girl that's a new connection (Cuban link)
It's me and you 'cause we in the selection (select)
Throw it back like it's your new profession (new profession)
Yuh, like you get paid for it
Good brain like you get grades for it
Woodgrain, you got a taste for it
Leather soft, your body made for it (yah!)
Oh, I drip her down in gold (drip, drip, drip, drip it up)
She used to tell me no
But who could tell me no? Yeah
Just how it goes, she sees the O's (yah, yah)
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes, but that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (let's ride!)
Baby can we pick it up?
Come over here and sit down
Lil' mama got a vibe, let's ride
On it for a couple weeks now
Yeah, you know it's you and me now
Top off with the seats down
Baby I'm a savage
Gassed up, couldn't pass it
Ran it back like a rerun
She sittin' pretty like a classic
Green light, we on go
And now she wanna roll
I hate to see her leave sometimes
But that ass on "woah"
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, don't quit
You're doin' good right now, don't quit
Put your old jeans on, now they won't fit
My lil' baby on thick, thick
Girl that ass too fat, so don't quit
You know I like it like that, so don't quit (Let's go!)
Yah, yah
Another one
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Don't Quit Lyrics as written by Calvin Harris Brittany Hazzard
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