"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.
(Real shit, new shit)
Yeah I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Yeah, sign me up
Sign me up
You can't bring me down
Sign me up
Yeah, above ground about thirty thousand miles up
Told the bitch slow down like dial-up
Go down first and she climbing up
Wanna let me cut, tell her "line it up"
Little bit much, I'm a wild one
All I do is fuck hoes, drink tiger blood
Since I came in the game they been sour
I'm the plug, get your motherfuckin' power up
Mind your business, you in my office
And I go get it, I need all it
I stay lifted, smoking, sipping
Fixes fixing all my problems
Yeah I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Yeah, sign me up
Sign me up
Can't bring me down
Sign me up
I was a nobody, now my name's on the list
Couple keys of uncut cocaine on the wrist
And I let my nuts hang on a bitch
All the money that we spend on champagne is ridiculous
And it is us, elixir in my cup
Give the bitches drugs, a dick to suck
And I don't see why these kids wanna grow up to be just like me
I was a nobody, now my name in they mouth
Came for a steak but I left with the cow
And they hate when you right though
Ain't shit change but my checking account
(Mac Milly)
I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Sign me up
Sign me up
You can't bring me down
Sign me up
Yeah I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Yeah, sign me up
Sign me up
You can't bring me down
Sign me up
Yeah, above ground about thirty thousand miles up
Told the bitch slow down like dial-up
Go down first and she climbing up
Wanna let me cut, tell her "line it up"
Little bit much, I'm a wild one
All I do is fuck hoes, drink tiger blood
Since I came in the game they been sour
I'm the plug, get your motherfuckin' power up
Mind your business, you in my office
And I go get it, I need all it
I stay lifted, smoking, sipping
Fixes fixing all my problems
Yeah I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Yeah, sign me up
Sign me up
Can't bring me down
Sign me up
I was a nobody, now my name's on the list
Couple keys of uncut cocaine on the wrist
And I let my nuts hang on a bitch
All the money that we spend on champagne is ridiculous
And it is us, elixir in my cup
Give the bitches drugs, a dick to suck
And I don't see why these kids wanna grow up to be just like me
I was a nobody, now my name in they mouth
Came for a steak but I left with the cow
And they hate when you right though
Ain't shit change but my checking account
(Mac Milly)
I done been through it all
Every brick in the wall
Got a bitch I'mma call when I'm tryna fuck
You ain't shit to the God, need to get you a job
'Cause you live in the mall, bills pile up
I'mma chill in the spot, with a spliff I been lifted a lot
But I'm still not high enough
All the mills that I got, couple whips in the lot
There's a list to the top you could sign me up
Sign me up
Sign me up
You can't bring me down
Sign me up
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Clubhouse Lyrics as written by Adam King Feeney Ricci Riera
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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