"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.
Fuck wrong, with a nigga?
Migo Gang!
Yeah!
Pussy Nigga!
Momma told me to get money but don't be stupid
Know how to add up the grams and weigh up the bands, don't know how to use computers
Bando beating like its Lex Luther
Pinky ring sixty thousand man, you can't fuck with my squad and you know it man
Come on my block, get extorted man
Dope on my margella, dope on my wrist and my fist 'cause I'm cookin up coca man
Wind milling that pot like a hurricane
And I hope you don't think that we broke man
Come to the north and its Cokeland
The critics, say change my attitude
I told em fuck em, get my gratitude
Don't make me show you what the Mac 11 do
Better watch out, you'll get life with that dog food
Standing, in the, trap, made a, hundred thousand
Call up the migo he pull up extension, he glaowed him
I got them bricks, but used to be Nickel and dimeing
Look at my Rolly it's flooding, I can't see the timing
Everything cool til you pussy niggas start dying
Heart of a lion
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
Started off with a nickel rock
Ran it up to a whole brick
Pussy nigga, start down, kick door, nigga ohh shit!
FN 5-7, thirty rounds, extended clip nigga blue tips
Pull upon you window down, choppas out, murder gang nigga don't slip
21 savage
Bitch I cause havoc
Riding with the thirty
Nigga that's a habit
Make the choppa seem like I'm in the credit
Bought a building nigga handy with the ratchets
I'm trappin and cappin
Shipping and packin
Robbin and rackin
Designing my fashion
Change on bling
Watching my ring
And I get all my cases so fuck an arrangement
Standing, in the, trap, made a, hundred thousand
Call up the migo he pull up extension, he glaowed him
I got them bricks, but used to be Nickel and dimeing
Look at my Rolly it's flooding, I can't see the timing
Everything cool til you pussy niggas start dying
Heart of a lion
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
Migo Gang!
Yeah!
Pussy Nigga!
Momma told me to get money but don't be stupid
Know how to add up the grams and weigh up the bands, don't know how to use computers
Bando beating like its Lex Luther
Pinky ring sixty thousand man, you can't fuck with my squad and you know it man
Come on my block, get extorted man
Dope on my margella, dope on my wrist and my fist 'cause I'm cookin up coca man
Wind milling that pot like a hurricane
And I hope you don't think that we broke man
Come to the north and its Cokeland
The critics, say change my attitude
I told em fuck em, get my gratitude
Don't make me show you what the Mac 11 do
Better watch out, you'll get life with that dog food
Standing, in the, trap, made a, hundred thousand
Call up the migo he pull up extension, he glaowed him
I got them bricks, but used to be Nickel and dimeing
Look at my Rolly it's flooding, I can't see the timing
Everything cool til you pussy niggas start dying
Heart of a lion
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
Started off with a nickel rock
Ran it up to a whole brick
Pussy nigga, start down, kick door, nigga ohh shit!
FN 5-7, thirty rounds, extended clip nigga blue tips
Pull upon you window down, choppas out, murder gang nigga don't slip
21 savage
Bitch I cause havoc
Riding with the thirty
Nigga that's a habit
Make the choppa seem like I'm in the credit
Bought a building nigga handy with the ratchets
I'm trappin and cappin
Shipping and packin
Robbin and rackin
Designing my fashion
Change on bling
Watching my ring
And I get all my cases so fuck an arrangement
Standing, in the, trap, made a, hundred thousand
Call up the migo he pull up extension, he glaowed him
I got them bricks, but used to be Nickel and dimeing
Look at my Rolly it's flooding, I can't see the timing
Everything cool til you pussy niggas start dying
Heart of a lion
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
You pussy niggas start dying
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Start Dying Lyrics as written by Shayaa Joseph Xavier Dotson
Lyrics © Ultra Tunes, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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