"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.
Yo, eve
This is steve
Yeah we in town, when I pass through on the club
See if we can do something together
Give me a call when you get message
Rasta
Now this one is elementary
We going to end it for the century
Ruff ryder evolution representary
Rag-a-muffin do dientry
Yo (uh, come on, yo)
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
Cause you left me baby
And I got no place to go now
No, no, no
I'll do any thing you say boy
No, no, no
I'll do any thing you say boy
Cause if you ask me baby
I'll get on my knees and pray boy
Uh huh uh, uh huh (yo) uh huh (yo)
You say that you love me but how could you lie
You say that you love me now why would you lie
How could you take my heart and leave me with
I don't know why
You say that you love me now why would you lie
You say that you love me now how could you lie
How could you take my heart and leave me with
I don't know why
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
Yo, yo, yo
Walk hennessey-ya, brown skin
Pretty face, keep coming at ya like bumba see you in
Slim nicey round thing, momma say what a disgrace
Who the number 1 killer but lover is a bounty chase
A no my fault ma woman make me go
Most dem love my style even dem say she rude
Ah no lie mi not lie the truth speak through G
Boi dem a fi love us stay dem chat bout me
Ruff ryder ryde or die chat bout we
Ruff ryder ryde or die chat bout we
maximum respect to my girl I love the best
But when you left me it's like a bullet to my chest
Now I'm not the same I got a bullet through vest
Knocked off my feet I pleaded no contest
Sleepless nights without no food nor rest
This is raggamuffin junior don comin' next
Take it no more I had to make her confess
Sometimes I feel I'm in the wild, wild west
Lost the love I had and now I live to the death
Se woman a tell me lie, a give me long story line
Oh, sincerely yours, it could be sincerely mine
But listening to promises what a fool am I
Can somebody tell me? You know all his life
I'm just trying to be friendly, and I'm losing my mind
Mi notice that your moving physically on time
and i miss di rubber ducky late nights slow wine
Miss the loveliness of the body gold mine
Well, might as well you shoot me with a new cold 9
Sweet one above me, is so hard to find
no, no, no you don't love me, I'm reading the signs
Cause there's no where to go now that you've left me behind
(Now it's true, true) yo I love you for truth
(True, true) it stick like ankle glue
(True, true) I make your gray skies blue
(True, true) you want me pers-nal boo
Chilling up on the house di ghetto yutes advance strong
DJ's got to plays it on the one's and two's
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
This is steve
Yeah we in town, when I pass through on the club
See if we can do something together
Give me a call when you get message
Rasta
Now this one is elementary
We going to end it for the century
Ruff ryder evolution representary
Rag-a-muffin do dientry
Yo (uh, come on, yo)
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
Cause you left me baby
And I got no place to go now
No, no, no
I'll do any thing you say boy
No, no, no
I'll do any thing you say boy
Cause if you ask me baby
I'll get on my knees and pray boy
Uh huh uh, uh huh (yo) uh huh (yo)
You say that you love me but how could you lie
You say that you love me now why would you lie
How could you take my heart and leave me with
I don't know why
You say that you love me now why would you lie
You say that you love me now how could you lie
How could you take my heart and leave me with
I don't know why
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
Yo, yo, yo
Walk hennessey-ya, brown skin
Pretty face, keep coming at ya like bumba see you in
Slim nicey round thing, momma say what a disgrace
Who the number 1 killer but lover is a bounty chase
A no my fault ma woman make me go
Most dem love my style even dem say she rude
Ah no lie mi not lie the truth speak through G
Boi dem a fi love us stay dem chat bout me
Ruff ryder ryde or die chat bout we
Ruff ryder ryde or die chat bout we
maximum respect to my girl I love the best
But when you left me it's like a bullet to my chest
Now I'm not the same I got a bullet through vest
Knocked off my feet I pleaded no contest
Sleepless nights without no food nor rest
This is raggamuffin junior don comin' next
Take it no more I had to make her confess
Sometimes I feel I'm in the wild, wild west
Lost the love I had and now I live to the death
Se woman a tell me lie, a give me long story line
Oh, sincerely yours, it could be sincerely mine
But listening to promises what a fool am I
Can somebody tell me? You know all his life
I'm just trying to be friendly, and I'm losing my mind
Mi notice that your moving physically on time
and i miss di rubber ducky late nights slow wine
Miss the loveliness of the body gold mine
Well, might as well you shoot me with a new cold 9
Sweet one above me, is so hard to find
no, no, no you don't love me, I'm reading the signs
Cause there's no where to go now that you've left me behind
(Now it's true, true) yo I love you for truth
(True, true) it stick like ankle glue
(True, true) I make your gray skies blue
(True, true) you want me pers-nal boo
Chilling up on the house di ghetto yutes advance strong
DJ's got to plays it on the one's and two's
No, no, no
You don't love me and I know now
No, no, no
You don't love me yes I know now
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
No, No, No Lyrics as written by Willie Cobbs Ellas Mcdaniel
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