"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.
Mexican Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
Let the world call ‘em crow’s feet
Baby, we can call ‘em laugh lines
Let me hear your little heart beat, baby
Turn your back on all the deadlines
I got a healin’ home-brewed remedy,
a low-brow therapy
And a high time
It’s surreal, sublime, manmade and divine
It’s the moonshine….
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Hey, cantinero!
Pull back and hit me with your magic arrow
I need amor more than dinero
In any language every day
We’ll get a fine flow flowin’,
a good glow goin’ and let’s shine on
Soak in the silvery light
spillin’ out tonight from the moonshine…
Mexican Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
Hey, gringos, it could be worse
We did not get there first
‘cause on the south side of the dunes
We found graffiti on the rocks,
The Lunar Lander on blocks,
And a Mexican flag on the moon!
Mexican Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
May your heart and your cup…
Overflow…under the glow
of the Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
Let the world call ‘em crow’s feet
Baby, we can call ‘em laugh lines
Let me hear your little heart beat, baby
Turn your back on all the deadlines
I got a healin’ home-brewed remedy,
a low-brow therapy
And a high time
It’s surreal, sublime, manmade and divine
It’s the moonshine….
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Hey, cantinero!
Pull back and hit me with your magic arrow
I need amor more than dinero
In any language every day
We’ll get a fine flow flowin’,
a good glow goin’ and let’s shine on
Soak in the silvery light
spillin’ out tonight from the moonshine…
Mexican Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
Hey, gringos, it could be worse
We did not get there first
‘cause on the south side of the dunes
We found graffiti on the rocks,
The Lunar Lander on blocks,
And a Mexican flag on the moon!
Mexican Moonshine!
Mexican Moonshine!
I fell under the spell
when I stumbled over the line…
Mexican Moonshine
Mexican Moonshine
Let your heart and your cup overflow
Under the glow of the moonshine!
May your heart and your cup…
Overflow…under the glow
of the Moonshine!
Lyrics submitted by Falc
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