"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.
You motherfuckers keep talking about gun control
First off I'm tired of being controled
I'm tired of you motherfuckers trying to control me and mine
You better get your motherfucking weapon
'Cause motherfucker I got mine
And I'm not scared to use it, they're not scared to use it
So motherfucker get prepared
'Cause it's 'bout that time to prove it
We're trapped off in these fucked up gutters
Everyday prepering for war
So motherfucker get ready for it
It's about that time to even the score
We on, if you ever test us we swarm
So the devilish best be warned
Reform these Don peons
Who keep a lot of artillery
They take all of the hate, apply it to race
Then innocents get a taste
So take a bullet to liberate, off in the trigger state
We stock up, to be with the free locked up
To these pop up, when they tryna penetrate it we boss up
Don't wanna have to do it but indeed shot you
How many people gonna fall from this evil?
And it'll never stop 'cause we don't care if it's illegal
But the weapons charges violent fecal
When the demon is coming after you with a plan to deceive you
Just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
Uhh, hey, yeah everybody shooting
Hey, and you should be scared of us
Ah, they scared of us
'Cause we're out of control
We ain't got no gun control
Feeling nervous got a little trouble on my mind (okay)
I can turn 'em right and around and turn death fear to it
Not damn near do it
Think it's exposed, just 'cause I'm sagging my clothes
And tagging my toes and beating the peace out of peaceful nigga
Thanks for yanking the breaks off a gangster hate officers
Got a lot of mo', I got a lot of mo'
I see Trump's got a lot of votes
America is a salad bowl
And you can put the dressin' on it, chop it up and fool a lot of folks
If it's coming my way after trunk
'Cause the Trumpers get carried away
And I'm thumpin' my thumper
'Cause gun bumpin' don't mean nothing if the people is out of control
Just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
Uhh, hey, yeah everybody shooting
And you should be scared of us
Ah, they scared of us
'Cause we're out of control
We ain't got no gun control, hey
Hey, just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean that we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
We ain't got no gun control, hey
Ay, ay they scared of us
Look out God, they all scared of us
Yeah savage is out of control and
We ain't got no gun control, hey
First off I'm tired of being controled
I'm tired of you motherfuckers trying to control me and mine
You better get your motherfucking weapon
'Cause motherfucker I got mine
And I'm not scared to use it, they're not scared to use it
So motherfucker get prepared
'Cause it's 'bout that time to prove it
We're trapped off in these fucked up gutters
Everyday prepering for war
So motherfucker get ready for it
It's about that time to even the score
We on, if you ever test us we swarm
So the devilish best be warned
Reform these Don peons
Who keep a lot of artillery
They take all of the hate, apply it to race
Then innocents get a taste
So take a bullet to liberate, off in the trigger state
We stock up, to be with the free locked up
To these pop up, when they tryna penetrate it we boss up
Don't wanna have to do it but indeed shot you
How many people gonna fall from this evil?
And it'll never stop 'cause we don't care if it's illegal
But the weapons charges violent fecal
When the demon is coming after you with a plan to deceive you
Just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
Uhh, hey, yeah everybody shooting
Hey, and you should be scared of us
Ah, they scared of us
'Cause we're out of control
We ain't got no gun control
Feeling nervous got a little trouble on my mind (okay)
I can turn 'em right and around and turn death fear to it
Not damn near do it
Think it's exposed, just 'cause I'm sagging my clothes
And tagging my toes and beating the peace out of peaceful nigga
Thanks for yanking the breaks off a gangster hate officers
Got a lot of mo', I got a lot of mo'
I see Trump's got a lot of votes
America is a salad bowl
And you can put the dressin' on it, chop it up and fool a lot of folks
If it's coming my way after trunk
'Cause the Trumpers get carried away
And I'm thumpin' my thumper
'Cause gun bumpin' don't mean nothing if the people is out of control
Just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
Uhh, hey, yeah everybody shooting
And you should be scared of us
Ah, they scared of us
'Cause we're out of control
We ain't got no gun control, hey
Hey, just because we're carrying guns
Don't mean that we wanna use them
People abusing, carry on losing
Look at (you!) 'cause they all shooting
We ain't got no gun control, hey
Ay, ay they scared of us
Look out God, they all scared of us
Yeah savage is out of control and
We ain't got no gun control, hey
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
No Gun Control Lyrics as written by Samuel Watson Aaron Yates
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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