"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 the A.Z.N nigga fuck the rest
Dallas to New York jigga, we the best
Veitnam, to Japan to Mongolia
Phillipines, to Taiwan, to Cambodia
Korea ah..ah..
Home town China, who u got huh?
U got shit nigga, feel the size
It's the A.Z.N better recognize
Got Rice bitch? Got Rice?
Got food, got soup, got spice?
Got brains like us? Got skills like us?
Got cars, got clothes, got girls like us?
Whats up? We the shit and we'll kill ya'll fools
We got money in the bank from our family jewels
Can we help it if we rade and corrupt the schools?
It don't matter, fuck the law, shit we break the rules
We jack cars, pop games, yo we got the tools
Hoop it up, break it down then we shoot some pool
Fuck with me, you fuck with all bitch
Don't think it's cool
One on one FUCK THAT it's three on one no duels!
Got Rice bitch? Got Rice?
Anything u can show that is nice?
Got cash, got moves, got thoughts like us?
Fuck no hell you white, you'll never be like us.
Take off your shoes before you enter please
Or crawl around on the floor with your fuckin knees
Don't mind the smell you'll get used to it
Moth balls, dried squid, and that buddha shit
What the hell is that?
U think I don't see?
No forks in the house, chopsticks only.
Have a taste don't be scared try the lemon tea
U don't want? thats alright, try the duck on wheat
Got rice bitch? Got Rice?
Got luck everytime u roll the dice?
Ur luck is bad unless ur run and hide
Cuz we're thugs for life baby, Asian Pride!
Dallas to New York jigga, we the best
Veitnam, to Japan to Mongolia
Phillipines, to Taiwan, to Cambodia
Korea ah..ah..
Home town China, who u got huh?
U got shit nigga, feel the size
It's the A.Z.N better recognize
Got Rice bitch? Got Rice?
Got food, got soup, got spice?
Got brains like us? Got skills like us?
Got cars, got clothes, got girls like us?
Whats up? We the shit and we'll kill ya'll fools
We got money in the bank from our family jewels
Can we help it if we rade and corrupt the schools?
It don't matter, fuck the law, shit we break the rules
We jack cars, pop games, yo we got the tools
Hoop it up, break it down then we shoot some pool
Fuck with me, you fuck with all bitch
Don't think it's cool
One on one FUCK THAT it's three on one no duels!
Got Rice bitch? Got Rice?
Anything u can show that is nice?
Got cash, got moves, got thoughts like us?
Fuck no hell you white, you'll never be like us.
Take off your shoes before you enter please
Or crawl around on the floor with your fuckin knees
Don't mind the smell you'll get used to it
Moth balls, dried squid, and that buddha shit
What the hell is that?
U think I don't see?
No forks in the house, chopsticks only.
Have a taste don't be scared try the lemon tea
U don't want? thats alright, try the duck on wheat
Got rice bitch? Got Rice?
Got luck everytime u roll the dice?
Ur luck is bad unless ur run and hide
Cuz we're thugs for life baby, Asian Pride!
Lyrics submitted by xJoeBoothx
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
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wow this song is soo cool wow azn pride im cool..hell this song is fu**ing trash im cool with being proud of where u come from but hell u dont diss other ppl thats just lame...i mean u look sooooo cool cuz u listen to this wow...and u wonder why theres so much hate in this world..all i have to say is im disappointed too and this song shouldnt even be on here