"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.
[Verse 1: Zillakami]
Drugs in my veins taking passage
Laid out trippin flipping addict with the habits
Paid a couple thousand for the casket
Niggas wanna sleep well after living savage
Vertical face split, skip the fuckin case shit
Bags in my eyes and my dreams in the hell pits
Burnin all my pictures from the scenes in the mansion
Using dirty dishes mentally I'm Charles Manson
[Verse 2: 6ix9ine]
Smooth nigga, false step you rise
Don't Move nigga, crosshairs in sight
The Zoo nigga, concrete both sides
Who you nigga, one step you die
Tekashi69 from that scum fuckin squad no doors break the walls scum gang till I fall
[Verse 3: ZillaKami]
Zilla resurrect outta the crypts
The lochness off rip green yellow the piss
The Palm grip four fifth runnin round in the trench
Want shit talk shit might rip off ya lips
If you god I'm Kratos, the blackest of rose
The flower that bloomed at Selena it's thrown
The Yokai killer creepin in the grove
Y'all niggas pose I'm gone bake in the stove
[Verse 4: 6ix9ine]
Came to the god and ya jaw got bent
Big shit loud like the block got hit
Came outta jail still hitting them licks
Off on bail still flicking that wrist
Want Collabs ain't doin it for nuthin
Wanna meet up scum gang ain't trustin
Gettin beat up nah slick we bustin
Switchblade hip square up I'm cuttin
[Verse 5: ZillaKami]
Acting like you scum but it ain't in ya veins
Acting like you scum but it ain't in ya brain
Lord of gauze and the God of the pain
Man I draw with force of the four horseman
Hundred to a thousand to the gold fuckin brick
You Fuckin with the rawest of the raw with the grip
With ya white tee cotton and the shit say rip
Ten toes never ever trip bitch
Drugs in my veins taking passage
Laid out trippin flipping addict with the habits
Paid a couple thousand for the casket
Niggas wanna sleep well after living savage
Vertical face split, skip the fuckin case shit
Bags in my eyes and my dreams in the hell pits
Burnin all my pictures from the scenes in the mansion
Using dirty dishes mentally I'm Charles Manson
[Verse 2: 6ix9ine]
Smooth nigga, false step you rise
Don't Move nigga, crosshairs in sight
The Zoo nigga, concrete both sides
Who you nigga, one step you die
Tekashi69 from that scum fuckin squad no doors break the walls scum gang till I fall
[Verse 3: ZillaKami]
Zilla resurrect outta the crypts
The lochness off rip green yellow the piss
The Palm grip four fifth runnin round in the trench
Want shit talk shit might rip off ya lips
If you god I'm Kratos, the blackest of rose
The flower that bloomed at Selena it's thrown
The Yokai killer creepin in the grove
Y'all niggas pose I'm gone bake in the stove
[Verse 4: 6ix9ine]
Came to the god and ya jaw got bent
Big shit loud like the block got hit
Came outta jail still hitting them licks
Off on bail still flicking that wrist
Want Collabs ain't doin it for nuthin
Wanna meet up scum gang ain't trustin
Gettin beat up nah slick we bustin
Switchblade hip square up I'm cuttin
[Verse 5: ZillaKami]
Acting like you scum but it ain't in ya veins
Acting like you scum but it ain't in ya brain
Lord of gauze and the God of the pain
Man I draw with force of the four horseman
Hundred to a thousand to the gold fuckin brick
You Fuckin with the rawest of the raw with the grip
With ya white tee cotton and the shit say rip
Ten toes never ever trip bitch
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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