"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.
Bring it on
Fame, you're claiming is the top of the world
But this stage I'm claiming is the top of the world
And love I'm feeling when you people connect
And if you're out in the crowd you're getting more than respect
And if you're wondering I got plenty of flows
I'm making plenty of friends and many are foes
But as the audience grows security knows
Stopping me now is kinda serious
No use in dreading what they call Armageddon
I think we made it through the slump
But who really cares where we're heading?
'Cause now you mutherfuckers got a reason to jump
So let's make something out of it, this way we can all relate
Worldwide, we collide, this is how we communicate
So let's make something out of it, whoever thought we would see the day?
I can't believe we did it, so let's drift away
Hate, a feeling I don't really get
And hate can get you in some serious shit
Time is something that may change me
But I can't change time so fuck it
I've been stumbling through these thoughts
And about the fact that I could be delirious
But as the audience grows security knows
Stopping me now is kinda serious
No use in dreading what they call Armageddon
I think we made it through the slump
But who really cares where we're heading?
'Cause now you motherfuckers got a reason to jump
So let's make something out of it, this way we can all relate
Worldwide, we collide, this is how we communicate
So let's make something out of it, whoever thought we would see the day?
I can't believe we did it so let's drift away
We see good things change and good things go away
We see good things waste and we taste the pain
What we need is a place to escape from today
Right
What we need is a place to escape from today
Right
Yeah
Bring it on
Bring it on
Bring it on
Bring it on
You wanna be down with the G shock
Fuck the glam rock, assed out like Ken Shamrock
Mc's detest me, wanna chest to chest me
But I ain't all about that
You gotta be down with the G shock
Fuck the glam rock, assed out like Ken Shamrock
Mc's detest me, wanna chest to chest me
But you don't want none of that
Yeah
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Don't stop
It's 9 teen 90 nine
Don't stop
It's 9 teen 90 nine, baby
Fame, you're claiming is the top of the world
But this stage I'm claiming is the top of the world
And love I'm feeling when you people connect
And if you're out in the crowd you're getting more than respect
And if you're wondering I got plenty of flows
I'm making plenty of friends and many are foes
But as the audience grows security knows
Stopping me now is kinda serious
No use in dreading what they call Armageddon
I think we made it through the slump
But who really cares where we're heading?
'Cause now you mutherfuckers got a reason to jump
So let's make something out of it, this way we can all relate
Worldwide, we collide, this is how we communicate
So let's make something out of it, whoever thought we would see the day?
I can't believe we did it, so let's drift away
Hate, a feeling I don't really get
And hate can get you in some serious shit
Time is something that may change me
But I can't change time so fuck it
I've been stumbling through these thoughts
And about the fact that I could be delirious
But as the audience grows security knows
Stopping me now is kinda serious
No use in dreading what they call Armageddon
I think we made it through the slump
But who really cares where we're heading?
'Cause now you motherfuckers got a reason to jump
So let's make something out of it, this way we can all relate
Worldwide, we collide, this is how we communicate
So let's make something out of it, whoever thought we would see the day?
I can't believe we did it so let's drift away
We see good things change and good things go away
We see good things waste and we taste the pain
What we need is a place to escape from today
Right
What we need is a place to escape from today
Right
Yeah
Bring it on
Bring it on
Bring it on
Bring it on
You wanna be down with the G shock
Fuck the glam rock, assed out like Ken Shamrock
Mc's detest me, wanna chest to chest me
But I ain't all about that
You gotta be down with the G shock
Fuck the glam rock, assed out like Ken Shamrock
Mc's detest me, wanna chest to chest me
But you don't want none of that
Yeah
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Where we at?
Don't stop
It's 9 teen 90 nine
Don't stop
It's 9 teen 90 nine, baby
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
9 Teen 90 Nine Lyrics as written by Leor Dimant John Everett Otto
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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