"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.
Bang com in my time
Well isn't pulled up, I'm farther on the times hardly
I'mma roshie, to long, too gone long gone
Bang it's spark on the church I take it to hore
I cannot help, I cannot change
I'mma run away try
To my love lost, to the love lost
And I me don't wanna be that one
But we don't wanna waste time
Let go, listen to me and my drum
Let go time for the outcome
Stand slow, come for me outcome
...give me some outcome
Let know listen for the outcome
Let go time for the outcome
Set slow run for the outcome
Tend to dawn give me some outcome
Too long, love run, bang, bang, bang
Well isn't pulled up, I'm farther on the times hardly
I'mma roshie, to long, too gone long gone
Bang it's spark on the church I take it to hore
I cannot help, I cannot change
I'mma run away try
To my love lost, to the love lost
And I me don't wanna be that one
But we don't wanna waste time
Let go, listen to me and my drum
Let go time for the outcome
Stand slow, come for me outcome
...give me some outcome
Let know listen for the outcome
Let go time for the outcome
Set slow run for the outcome
Tend to dawn give me some outcome
Too long, love run, bang, bang, bang
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Bang Lyrics as written by Faure Bell
Lyrics © Raleigh Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave
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