"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.
Gimme some of that good stuff I need so much
I can't handle life without it, it's become my crutch
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
All my life whenever I got into a relationship
Couldn't take the nagging of women never be taking tips
When they said I just needed one of them in my stable
But never would I listen I wasn't able they say to me
I know you got other chicks, and I'm sick of this shit
You think I'm asleep when you go sneak away for a bit
I hear you talking to her why do you treat me like this
Why do you make it so hard to admit
Player would never show his hand
I become something they can't stand
In the long run they on one, our song's done
Get they bags and they bounce
And they say I'm sick and need a little counseling
You are the king, but don't know how to treat a queen
I hear the words you speak about her when you dream
Thought that we were a team, how could you let her intervene
Guess you got me
Really got some feelings for this one you can't stop me
Gimme some of that good stuff I need so much
I can't handle life without it, it's become my crutch
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
'Cause it will have its, hold, on me
Her blood is coursing through my veins
I need to hold on tight just let it take the reigns
Don't get in the game
If there's a feeling you can't hang
Women tell me that I should be loyal to one dame
It's a shame, they say I'm a playa and I never change
I remain, how we start out the same
And I can never get with it, you can give it to whomever wanna get it
Now that I'm seeing vivid you come at me I'mma pivot and
Get up out of your room, treat me like a buffoon
I can see you love her to the moon
I cannot lie I'm hella busted, they say I can't be trusted
I ain't got time to love shit but this does it
Loving her even when out in public goes with me wherever I tug it
I'm really done with you yes I had a lot of fun with you
But your many will soon be none with you
So what you gonna do?
It's only one and without it I might lose it
I cannot keep a woman 'cause time with my music
Gimme some of that good stuff I need so much
I can't handle life without it
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
'Cause it will have its, hold, on me
Her blood is coursing through my veins
I need to hold on tight just let it take the reigns
I can't handle life without it, it's become my crutch
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
All my life whenever I got into a relationship
Couldn't take the nagging of women never be taking tips
When they said I just needed one of them in my stable
But never would I listen I wasn't able they say to me
I know you got other chicks, and I'm sick of this shit
You think I'm asleep when you go sneak away for a bit
I hear you talking to her why do you treat me like this
Why do you make it so hard to admit
Player would never show his hand
I become something they can't stand
In the long run they on one, our song's done
Get they bags and they bounce
And they say I'm sick and need a little counseling
You are the king, but don't know how to treat a queen
I hear the words you speak about her when you dream
Thought that we were a team, how could you let her intervene
Guess you got me
Really got some feelings for this one you can't stop me
Gimme some of that good stuff I need so much
I can't handle life without it, it's become my crutch
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
'Cause it will have its, hold, on me
Her blood is coursing through my veins
I need to hold on tight just let it take the reigns
Don't get in the game
If there's a feeling you can't hang
Women tell me that I should be loyal to one dame
It's a shame, they say I'm a playa and I never change
I remain, how we start out the same
And I can never get with it, you can give it to whomever wanna get it
Now that I'm seeing vivid you come at me I'mma pivot and
Get up out of your room, treat me like a buffoon
I can see you love her to the moon
I cannot lie I'm hella busted, they say I can't be trusted
I ain't got time to love shit but this does it
Loving her even when out in public goes with me wherever I tug it
I'm really done with you yes I had a lot of fun with you
But your many will soon be none with you
So what you gonna do?
It's only one and without it I might lose it
I cannot keep a woman 'cause time with my music
Gimme some of that good stuff I need so much
I can't handle life without it
I don't need anything else
I'm just gonna use it for myself
Been craving it tonight so it's good I've got plans
Soon I'll be flying, oh so high
'Cause it will have its, hold, on me
Her blood is coursing through my veins
I need to hold on tight just let it take the reigns
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Hold On Me Lyrics as written by Kathryn Caggianelli Aaron Yates
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