"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.
[Intro]
Feral, baby
Let's get it, who?
[Verse: Lil 14]
We don't mess with these lames
We'll be flying like Haitian
All my boys hungry
We just dyin' to taste it
We don't play no game
Don't accept new faces
You got a problem with that?
Your lifeline [?] shoelaces, uncovering basics, we got
Masking our faces
Cash money waste
[?]
[?]
Face it, your whole rap style so basic
[?] for a feature [?]
Dark knight when they see me, yeah they got me on the team
Looking for the problem and the problem it was me
Gotta run a hunnit goons it'll drop you to your sleep
Tell him you was talking he gone pop you like a spring
I could tell the money talk cause I'm always speaking
Got a couple niggas said I wasn't hot so now I'm steamin'
Came up, it's impossible to stop him off [?]
So I [?]
Y'all ain't got no meaning, you not [?]
No armies is freezing, no armies is trees
You fall back, I'm leaning, you niggas can't see me
Like this is the season
You get payed a lot, but I get paid more
Get you clothes in Kmart
I'm getting money 'fore the day start
O-B-E-Y get ready for the Trademark, Trademark
Ready for the Trademark
Get ready for the Trademark
I'm getting money 'fore the day start
O-B-E-Y get ready for the Trademark
Get em, I got em
Smacked in in they back
Click clack c-confirm this pass for a sack
So you know for a fact I'm affiliated with apple so I gotta keep a mac
Rolls Royce, that Rolls Royce, your whole team make no noise
That 9 poke your stomach boy, no laughing either no jokes boy, uh
But It's cool, your girl don't wanna talk
She don't like to pick and choose, so you came here with your clique poppin' bottles in the VIP
But I ain't ever seen a VIP that was full of all dudes, hmm
But that's enough for you, I like a lightskin girl with a lot of tattoo's
And she gotta be thick with the big ol' hips, put some honey on her chest when I winnie-that-pooh
And yes I'm a dog nigga kinda like snoop, so yeah I'm a lion
So homie why you lyin'? I done did research
I done heard conversations about your crew, you ain't really that cool
[Outro]
Turn down for what? Nigga
Turn down for what?
Get em
Feral, baby
Let's get it, who?
[Verse: Lil 14]
We don't mess with these lames
We'll be flying like Haitian
All my boys hungry
We just dyin' to taste it
We don't play no game
Don't accept new faces
You got a problem with that?
Your lifeline [?] shoelaces, uncovering basics, we got
Masking our faces
Cash money waste
[?]
[?]
Face it, your whole rap style so basic
[?] for a feature [?]
Dark knight when they see me, yeah they got me on the team
Looking for the problem and the problem it was me
Gotta run a hunnit goons it'll drop you to your sleep
Tell him you was talking he gone pop you like a spring
I could tell the money talk cause I'm always speaking
Got a couple niggas said I wasn't hot so now I'm steamin'
Came up, it's impossible to stop him off [?]
So I [?]
Y'all ain't got no meaning, you not [?]
No armies is freezing, no armies is trees
You fall back, I'm leaning, you niggas can't see me
Like this is the season
You get payed a lot, but I get paid more
Get you clothes in Kmart
I'm getting money 'fore the day start
O-B-E-Y get ready for the Trademark, Trademark
Ready for the Trademark
Get ready for the Trademark
I'm getting money 'fore the day start
O-B-E-Y get ready for the Trademark
Get em, I got em
Smacked in in they back
Click clack c-confirm this pass for a sack
So you know for a fact I'm affiliated with apple so I gotta keep a mac
Rolls Royce, that Rolls Royce, your whole team make no noise
That 9 poke your stomach boy, no laughing either no jokes boy, uh
But It's cool, your girl don't wanna talk
She don't like to pick and choose, so you came here with your clique poppin' bottles in the VIP
But I ain't ever seen a VIP that was full of all dudes, hmm
But that's enough for you, I like a lightskin girl with a lot of tattoo's
And she gotta be thick with the big ol' hips, put some honey on her chest when I winnie-that-pooh
And yes I'm a dog nigga kinda like snoop, so yeah I'm a lion
So homie why you lyin'? I done did research
I done heard conversations about your crew, you ain't really that cool
[Outro]
Turn down for what? Nigga
Turn down for what?
Get em
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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