"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.
I never cared too much for love
It was all a bunch of mush that I just did not want
Paid was the issue of the day
If a girlfriend's got some game
Couldn't be more fly, gettin' paid was everything
But I'm not every girl and I don't need that world to validate me
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
I was a girl about the floss
It was all about the cost, how much he spent on me
Seek, for a man who's got the means
To be givin' you diamond rings
It's what every fly girl could want or even dream
But I'm not every girl and I don't need no G to take care of me
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart, no no
Most girls want a man with the bling bling (most girls)
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
Most girls want a man with the bling bling (most girls)
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching (got my own)
I just want real love (I just want real love)
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
And I'm not every girl
And I don't need no G to take care of me, no
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart, oh most girls
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love (I, I just want real love, can you give me real love?)
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of (I dream of)
A man that understands real love
'Cause I'm not most girls
Don't wanna dance if he can't be
Oh, everything
I, I just want real love, said I gotta have real love
Everything that, can you be everything that I dream of?
It was all a bunch of mush that I just did not want
Paid was the issue of the day
If a girlfriend's got some game
Couldn't be more fly, gettin' paid was everything
But I'm not every girl and I don't need that world to validate me
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
I was a girl about the floss
It was all about the cost, how much he spent on me
Seek, for a man who's got the means
To be givin' you diamond rings
It's what every fly girl could want or even dream
But I'm not every girl and I don't need no G to take care of me
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart, no no
Most girls want a man with the bling bling (most girls)
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
Most girls want a man with the bling bling (most girls)
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching (got my own)
I just want real love (I just want real love)
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
And I'm not every girl
And I don't need no G to take care of me, no
'Cause shorty got a job, shorty got a car, shorty can pay her own rent
Don't wanna dance if it is not in my heart, oh most girls
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love (I, I just want real love, can you give me real love?)
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of
A man that understands real love
Most girls want a man with the bling bling
Got my own thing, got the ching-ching
I just want real love
Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be everything that I dream of (I dream of)
A man that understands real love
'Cause I'm not most girls
Don't wanna dance if he can't be
Oh, everything
I, I just want real love, said I gotta have real love
Everything that, can you be everything that I dream of?
Lyrics submitted by Moondragon
Most Girls Lyrics as written by Damon Thomas Kenneth Edmonds
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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