"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.
We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
I'm out for the night
Smile for the lights
Looking for a taste and I end up with a slice
Like P à la mode
I'm fresh and I'm froze
My chain hang low and my raps pure gold
I'm nasty and nice
A wolf on the mic
These sheep sound bad, but they flock for a bite
Let's Midnight Maraud
We out with the claws
Howl at the moon and we glance at the stars
We up and away
Top tier everyday
They pause and we play, we ball and they fade
We rockin' over here
It's jumpin' over here
Them other niggas gold but we shine like veneers
I brush off those wack little haters like plaque
With the elemental P's and the Peas that be Black
With the element of freeze so please stand back
Tell me can you rock it, can you rock it like that?
Yup, yup, yo Tab and Ap
Time to get the strap
Hit em off with the click clack, Mortal Kombat
I'ma slap 'em with the boom bap, top a four mat
Told them niggas step back, these are power maniacs
I'm the black power ranger, baby you can call me Zack
That's exactly how I flip the lyric, rap acrobat
Battlerap, ready to attack, heavy impact
Nigga I'ma a Thunder Cat
You know where my number's at, number one
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
I slip on the scene
I'm slick and I'm clean
I slide off the green like my money's Vaseline
The mood is Supreme
The ladies lookin' nice
They're rollin' with the team yeah we gotta fit 'em right
You won't be on the night 'cause the itch don't stop
We blowin' up the spot 'til the roof go pop
You somethin' and they not
They warm and we hot
They sink to the bottom and we rise to the top
Umm
We doin' things she just talk about
We makin' headlines, she just word of mouth
We knock it out the park and you strikin' out
You fallin' off, we hold it down
You crack when the alligator snap
With the elemental P's and the Peas that be Black
With the element of freeze so please stand back
Tell me can you rock it, can you rock it like that?
Yup, yup, real shit, I can rock it like this
Three pointer, hit a three, yes indeed, it a swish
I be deep in the abyss, I am Pisces the fish
When I'm dick up in a bitch, it be heavenly bliss
Oh yes, look at this wicked shit that I spit
Two lung, one tongue, two lips, larynx
Kill a lyricist, rock the fatal linguistic
On my 1-2 shit, never on that two list, we number one
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
And we are the dreamers of dreams
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
I'm out for the night
Smile for the lights
Looking for a taste and I end up with a slice
Like P à la mode
I'm fresh and I'm froze
My chain hang low and my raps pure gold
I'm nasty and nice
A wolf on the mic
These sheep sound bad, but they flock for a bite
Let's Midnight Maraud
We out with the claws
Howl at the moon and we glance at the stars
We up and away
Top tier everyday
They pause and we play, we ball and they fade
We rockin' over here
It's jumpin' over here
Them other niggas gold but we shine like veneers
I brush off those wack little haters like plaque
With the elemental P's and the Peas that be Black
With the element of freeze so please stand back
Tell me can you rock it, can you rock it like that?
Yup, yup, yo Tab and Ap
Time to get the strap
Hit em off with the click clack, Mortal Kombat
I'ma slap 'em with the boom bap, top a four mat
Told them niggas step back, these are power maniacs
I'm the black power ranger, baby you can call me Zack
That's exactly how I flip the lyric, rap acrobat
Battlerap, ready to attack, heavy impact
Nigga I'ma a Thunder Cat
You know where my number's at, number one
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
I slip on the scene
I'm slick and I'm clean
I slide off the green like my money's Vaseline
The mood is Supreme
The ladies lookin' nice
They're rollin' with the team yeah we gotta fit 'em right
You won't be on the night 'cause the itch don't stop
We blowin' up the spot 'til the roof go pop
You somethin' and they not
They warm and we hot
They sink to the bottom and we rise to the top
Umm
We doin' things she just talk about
We makin' headlines, she just word of mouth
We knock it out the park and you strikin' out
You fallin' off, we hold it down
You crack when the alligator snap
With the elemental P's and the Peas that be Black
With the element of freeze so please stand back
Tell me can you rock it, can you rock it like that?
Yup, yup, real shit, I can rock it like this
Three pointer, hit a three, yes indeed, it a swish
I be deep in the abyss, I am Pisces the fish
When I'm dick up in a bitch, it be heavenly bliss
Oh yes, look at this wicked shit that I spit
Two lung, one tongue, two lips, larynx
Kill a lyricist, rock the fatal linguistic
On my 1-2 shit, never on that two list, we number one
One is for the love
Two is for the soul
Three's the magic number
And four is forever
Five is so alive
And six is in the mix
So peep, I hope you're ready for
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
4EVER Lyrics as written by Carlton Ridenhour Allan Pineda
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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