"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 can't stop what's divine, no
So why in the hell are you trying for
The Cayenne flow got you dying slow
'Cause my info got the Zion glow
They don't like seeing Tecca the N9ne go
They said I'm evil
They said I'm totally demon in my cerebral
They callin' me criminal, comin' to curse a cathedral
To punish the positive, opposin' the peace of the people
They said I'm a dreamer, and not a good singer
That'll never get bread and no kind of Heaven'll bring ya
When I lessen the N9na
Oppressin' the Tech and left in the ringer
'Cause I am the effin' best with the lingua
Calling me failure when you know Tech is a choppin' impaler
It's funny when you rolling, they come and try to derail ya
The tale fell to hell bruh
Nothing you tell her is stopping me when I nail her
She loving the delta
The hate gon' show but the faith gon' grow
'Cause I am a winner and gonna make strong dough
When I take on flow, when the pace don't slow
It's comedy saying that Aaron Yates won't blow
(Yates won't blow, Yates won't blow
Yates won't blow, Yates won't blow)
You did this, how you live with the stupidness
Knowing when I get loose, it get lucrative
Who can sit through this and boo 'cause it blew to bits
Doofus is not a muse, it's a duplicate
Riddle me, riddle me, yo why does a little league
In second fiddle belittle me when it'll be literally
Killa B's on the milla spree to drill 'em and filler flee
Ain't no illa G, reala B, the skill is agility
When they be itching to down ya
Throwing the hate all around ya
To all the people that clown ya
But not a sound when they come encounter
A real one, they don't feel none
Swear you're sitting on just little crumbs
When you really making multi-millions
When they say you lost it, but the deal's done
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
It's crazy what haters say when creating a narrative
I will flatten 'em all like the apron, no air in it
Media maybe is airing it and made a few errors
It doesn't matter, money's made and many takin' their share in it
Nobody's thinking about the way that they carry us, staying precarious
Fallin' like the angel that flirted when hated comparison
When I think of our native Americans being named by some terrorists
I ain't sayin' they're Arabic homie
I figured I could make it apparent like babies in carriages
But this ain't related to marriages
When I say I'm separated from a lady that married to liberty
Later that buried it and made me a heretic
Take a TEC and then carry this to the grave
Innocent but say we're nefarious, now we hang
But them people are fakers and Fairey is on the gang
Put a target on the face then I count 'em like it's a bang (ugh)
They're prepared for this, I made it so there it is
So they throw the shade in areas grayer than Maridive
Tuck a .50 for the shade like Anastasia I'm airing it
Awkward living nowadays man I be stranger than Aaron is
They paint you in a slide and try to make you a derelict
Grammys ain't giving any love to Strange and I'm very sick
'Cause N9na's on the throne but they say I'm heir to it
Fake ish won't fly like a cape with a tear in it
Demons swinging low not at your face, call them sweet chariots
You know how many people that grow up and don't say what their parents did
Could've- could've been that, but it could've been bad
So doper lives be careful with
I'm sitting in the nuthouse looking at my freaking therapist like
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
When they be itching to down ya (ayy)
Throwing the hate all around ya (ayy)
To all the people that clown ya
But not a sound when they come encounter
A real one, they don't feel none
Swear you're sitting on just little crumbs
When you really making multi-millions
When they say you lost it but the deal's done
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
So why in the hell are you trying for
The Cayenne flow got you dying slow
'Cause my info got the Zion glow
They don't like seeing Tecca the N9ne go
They said I'm evil
They said I'm totally demon in my cerebral
They callin' me criminal, comin' to curse a cathedral
To punish the positive, opposin' the peace of the people
They said I'm a dreamer, and not a good singer
That'll never get bread and no kind of Heaven'll bring ya
When I lessen the N9na
Oppressin' the Tech and left in the ringer
'Cause I am the effin' best with the lingua
Calling me failure when you know Tech is a choppin' impaler
It's funny when you rolling, they come and try to derail ya
The tale fell to hell bruh
Nothing you tell her is stopping me when I nail her
She loving the delta
The hate gon' show but the faith gon' grow
'Cause I am a winner and gonna make strong dough
When I take on flow, when the pace don't slow
It's comedy saying that Aaron Yates won't blow
(Yates won't blow, Yates won't blow
Yates won't blow, Yates won't blow)
You did this, how you live with the stupidness
Knowing when I get loose, it get lucrative
Who can sit through this and boo 'cause it blew to bits
Doofus is not a muse, it's a duplicate
Riddle me, riddle me, yo why does a little league
In second fiddle belittle me when it'll be literally
Killa B's on the milla spree to drill 'em and filler flee
Ain't no illa G, reala B, the skill is agility
When they be itching to down ya
Throwing the hate all around ya
To all the people that clown ya
But not a sound when they come encounter
A real one, they don't feel none
Swear you're sitting on just little crumbs
When you really making multi-millions
When they say you lost it, but the deal's done
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
It's crazy what haters say when creating a narrative
I will flatten 'em all like the apron, no air in it
Media maybe is airing it and made a few errors
It doesn't matter, money's made and many takin' their share in it
Nobody's thinking about the way that they carry us, staying precarious
Fallin' like the angel that flirted when hated comparison
When I think of our native Americans being named by some terrorists
I ain't sayin' they're Arabic homie
I figured I could make it apparent like babies in carriages
But this ain't related to marriages
When I say I'm separated from a lady that married to liberty
Later that buried it and made me a heretic
Take a TEC and then carry this to the grave
Innocent but say we're nefarious, now we hang
But them people are fakers and Fairey is on the gang
Put a target on the face then I count 'em like it's a bang (ugh)
They're prepared for this, I made it so there it is
So they throw the shade in areas grayer than Maridive
Tuck a .50 for the shade like Anastasia I'm airing it
Awkward living nowadays man I be stranger than Aaron is
They paint you in a slide and try to make you a derelict
Grammys ain't giving any love to Strange and I'm very sick
'Cause N9na's on the throne but they say I'm heir to it
Fake ish won't fly like a cape with a tear in it
Demons swinging low not at your face, call them sweet chariots
You know how many people that grow up and don't say what their parents did
Could've- could've been that, but it could've been bad
So doper lives be careful with
I'm sitting in the nuthouse looking at my freaking therapist like
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, but they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
When they be itching to down ya (ayy)
Throwing the hate all around ya (ayy)
To all the people that clown ya
But not a sound when they come encounter
A real one, they don't feel none
Swear you're sitting on just little crumbs
When you really making multi-millions
When they say you lost it but the deal's done
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah yeah, this is called disparagement
Yeah, yeah, they really love this arrogance
And now my angel flair is sent to give you that embarrassment
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Disparagement Lyrics as written by Frederikus Van Workum Aaron Yates
Lyrics © Royalty Solutions Corp
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