"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.
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
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[Verse 1]
I ain't felt like this in ages
I ain't entered a Rapiary with so many pages
The cub was young, i ain't thought it roared let along rages
Every bird was born to fly free on the blue sky
But what about the ones locked up in the cages (talk to me son)
Oh Lord it keeps on playing back and forth
I can get rid of these images, I told my niggas I'd blow up
The rap stew would rise up, tastic
One size fits all, the swag elastic
Customers always right, that's the golden work ethic
Y'all thought I went crazy with them singles
You are now fucking with Mankayane's underground mainiac
Infatuated with lust and anxiety
All Hail, Riska D Rollaz Monarchy
Got it all tied up at the bottom, shoelace
These niggas eat pussy without saying grace
[Lost in the shadow of balling trying to prove a point to my niggas, deficit investing](14643241)
They'll tell you my story when I'm gone
But right now listen close cause this is my version
Riii
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
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[Verse 2]
Self introspection when you all alone weighing my pros and con's
When I get the dough
I'mmo go about updrading my home
My inner circle consist of the people I grew up with not every single Tom, Dick and Jerry
My waist grab the waist of my new Halle Barry
(Aimy, Aimy)
From a clumsy lesson to a world of silk and lace
Jacquis Pages this is where you felt out of place
Always pointing fingers, judgmental to the wrongs of my little world
(The Jig Is Up)
Like make up
When you wake up
Baby get out of my face
This is the real me
I've been twisting and turning
Imaginary images, Managing Director to this rap shit
Give up, Never
This are the dreams I chase with hay fever
So you endovour my neighbor
I am real forever
So long heartless break your heart into a million pieces
Nigga you so weak you that for a couple of kisses
Quote the musqouted, nigga are you aware you quoting the wrong quotations
I can see it in your eyes y'all fearing
Sometimes I sit back and look at the universe
What a beautiful curse
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
[Bridge]
[I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think
I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think
I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think](14643227)
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
[Verse 1]
I ain't felt like this in ages
I ain't entered a Rapiary with so many pages
The cub was young, i ain't thought it roared let along rages
Every bird was born to fly free on the blue sky
But what about the ones locked up in the cages (talk to me son)
Oh Lord it keeps on playing back and forth
I can get rid of these images, I told my niggas I'd blow up
The rap stew would rise up, tastic
One size fits all, the swag elastic
Customers always right, that's the golden work ethic
Y'all thought I went crazy with them singles
You are now fucking with Mankayane's underground mainiac
Infatuated with lust and anxiety
All Hail, Riska D Rollaz Monarchy
Got it all tied up at the bottom, shoelace
These niggas eat pussy without saying grace
[Lost in the shadow of balling trying to prove a point to my niggas, deficit investing](14643241)
They'll tell you my story when I'm gone
But right now listen close cause this is my version
Riii
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
[Verse 2]
Self introspection when you all alone weighing my pros and con's
When I get the dough
I'mmo go about updrading my home
My inner circle consist of the people I grew up with not every single Tom, Dick and Jerry
My waist grab the waist of my new Halle Barry
(Aimy, Aimy)
From a clumsy lesson to a world of silk and lace
Jacquis Pages this is where you felt out of place
Always pointing fingers, judgmental to the wrongs of my little world
(The Jig Is Up)
Like make up
When you wake up
Baby get out of my face
This is the real me
I've been twisting and turning
Imaginary images, Managing Director to this rap shit
Give up, Never
This are the dreams I chase with hay fever
So you endovour my neighbor
I am real forever
So long heartless break your heart into a million pieces
Nigga you so weak you that for a couple of kisses
Quote the musqouted, nigga are you aware you quoting the wrong quotations
I can see it in your eyes y'all fearing
Sometimes I sit back and look at the universe
What a beautiful curse
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
[Bridge]
[I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think
I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think
I am product of what I touch, where I go and what I think](14643227)
[Hook]
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head
Lyrics submitted by D_cider
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