"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.
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
Not my mind
Yo J
Can I get a little bit?
Your veins flow with poison, please acknowledge my present
This precious gift I behold, discarded like trash
To dominate it's in your nature, you selfish brat
I can't believe you had me strung out over you like that
One minute you're sweet the next minute you're sour
I taste the envious predictions
Change with each hour, I've seen this before
You even decided to step into my little world
Strange things occurring, happening over and
Over and over again habitual cruelty
You bark your orders with such a degrading dialect
I can't believe you had me strung out over you like that
One minute you're sweet the next minute you're sour
I taste the envious predictions
Change with each hour, I've seen this before
You even decided to step into my little world
Gonna funk it up
One minute you think you're all this
The next minute you think you're all that
But you're playing with a nova
Momma didn't show ya
How to take getting canned by the man when it's over?
I've been hunting you down
Waiting for the payback, you frown
Begging me for your mercy
I ain't down with the sympathy, you see?
And I'll always remember your tender love wiped me under the rug
Just so you could step on my spine
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
All this pain inflicted reminds me (I'm gonna get mine)
All this time which was wasted behind me (I'm gonna get mine)
Behind these wall of such hate, you'll find me (I'm gonna get mine)
I'd like to re-arrange your face, I'm gonna get mine
(Please don't wake me)
I'm gonna get mine
(Please don't wake me)
You're so sweet
You're so sweet
You're so sweet
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
So stop, was wasted behind me
(I'm gonna get mine)
Behind these walls of such hate, you'll find me
(I'm gonna get mine)
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine (you're so sweet, you're so sweet, you're so sweet)
You're always, you're always right
And I'm always wrong
That's why you love me so much
You're so sweet
I love you
You're so sweet
I love you
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
It's not my mind
Not my mind
Yo J
Can I get a little bit?
Your veins flow with poison, please acknowledge my present
This precious gift I behold, discarded like trash
To dominate it's in your nature, you selfish brat
I can't believe you had me strung out over you like that
One minute you're sweet the next minute you're sour
I taste the envious predictions
Change with each hour, I've seen this before
You even decided to step into my little world
Strange things occurring, happening over and
Over and over again habitual cruelty
You bark your orders with such a degrading dialect
I can't believe you had me strung out over you like that
One minute you're sweet the next minute you're sour
I taste the envious predictions
Change with each hour, I've seen this before
You even decided to step into my little world
Gonna funk it up
One minute you think you're all this
The next minute you think you're all that
But you're playing with a nova
Momma didn't show ya
How to take getting canned by the man when it's over?
I've been hunting you down
Waiting for the payback, you frown
Begging me for your mercy
I ain't down with the sympathy, you see?
And I'll always remember your tender love wiped me under the rug
Just so you could step on my spine
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
All this pain inflicted reminds me (I'm gonna get mine)
All this time which was wasted behind me (I'm gonna get mine)
Behind these wall of such hate, you'll find me (I'm gonna get mine)
I'd like to re-arrange your face, I'm gonna get mine
(Please don't wake me)
I'm gonna get mine
(Please don't wake me)
You're so sweet
You're so sweet
You're so sweet
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine
So stop, was wasted behind me
(I'm gonna get mine)
Behind these walls of such hate, you'll find me
(I'm gonna get mine)
I'm gonna get mine
I'm gonna get mine (you're so sweet, you're so sweet, you're so sweet)
You're always, you're always right
And I'm always wrong
That's why you love me so much
You're so sweet
I love you
You're so sweet
I love you
Lyrics submitted by jared_niceguy
Stalemate Lyrics as written by Samuel Robert Rivers John Everett Otto
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is my fave Limp Bizkit song. I'm just all into the whole "fed up with your shit, gonna get you back" theme. People shouldnt take advantage of other people...
best LB song out there.....its about a girl that he really liked but she treated him like shit "to dominate, it's in your nature, you selfish brat I can't believe you had me strung out all over you like that"......gives me chills
one of the best by limp. Can't believe a girl would treat him like shit. Fuck em.