"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.
Il calcio è un grande rito che devi rispettar
L'Europa ne impazzisce
E negli Stati Uniti lo vorrebbe popolar
Fondamentalmente, agli americani non interessano
I mondiali di calcio
Americani
Fondamentalmente a noi ci interessa che l'Italia vinca
I mondiali di calcio
Americani
Fondamentalmente a noi ci interessa che il made in Italy
Trionfi ovunque
Americani
Confidiamo che a Los Angeles lo stadio sia costruito
Con criteri anti-sisma
Americani
Confidiamo che la faglia non esiga il suo tributo di sangue
Ai mondiali di calcio
Americani
Qualora accadesse confido nell'intervento di squadre cinofile
Di cui amerò i cani
Americani
Guardate Lorena Bobbit, pensate a suo marito
Quale interesse ripone lui nei mondiali, secondo voi?
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Nessuno palleggia, nessuno che moviola
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno bagarino
Nessuno realizza, nessuno fluidifica
Nobody at the stadium
Parteciperanno molte squadre al campionato dei mondiali di calcio
Americani
Se Agbonavbare difenderà la propria porta nei mondiali di calcio
Americani
Forse la Nigeria vincerà questi famosi campionati di calcio mondiali
Americani
Loro giocano 'o basebol, loro ballano rock'n'roll
Ma i soldi pe' i Camel chi glieli dà?
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno petarda, nessuno fumogena
Nessuno coltella, nessuno bandiera
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno che urli Ghana
Nessuno si accalca, nessuno fluidifica
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Il calcio è un grande rito che devi rispetar
Che sia odio o che sia amore passerà
Il calcio è un grande rito che devi rispetar
Nessuno fluidifica, nessuno Maradona
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno di nessuno
Che sia odio o che sia amore, passera
L'Europa ne impazzisce
E negli Stati Uniti lo vorrebbe popolar
Fondamentalmente, agli americani non interessano
I mondiali di calcio
Americani
Fondamentalmente a noi ci interessa che l'Italia vinca
I mondiali di calcio
Americani
Fondamentalmente a noi ci interessa che il made in Italy
Trionfi ovunque
Americani
Confidiamo che a Los Angeles lo stadio sia costruito
Con criteri anti-sisma
Americani
Confidiamo che la faglia non esiga il suo tributo di sangue
Ai mondiali di calcio
Americani
Qualora accadesse confido nell'intervento di squadre cinofile
Di cui amerò i cani
Americani
Guardate Lorena Bobbit, pensate a suo marito
Quale interesse ripone lui nei mondiali, secondo voi?
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Nessuno palleggia, nessuno che moviola
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno bagarino
Nessuno realizza, nessuno fluidifica
Nobody at the stadium
Parteciperanno molte squadre al campionato dei mondiali di calcio
Americani
Se Agbonavbare difenderà la propria porta nei mondiali di calcio
Americani
Forse la Nigeria vincerà questi famosi campionati di calcio mondiali
Americani
Loro giocano 'o basebol, loro ballano rock'n'roll
Ma i soldi pe' i Camel chi glieli dà?
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno
Nessuno petarda, nessuno fumogena
Nessuno coltella, nessuno bandiera
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno che urli Ghana
Nessuno si accalca, nessuno fluidifica
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Il calcio è un grande rito che devi rispetar
Che sia odio o che sia amore passerà
Il calcio è un grande rito che devi rispetar
Nessuno fluidifica, nessuno Maradona
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno di nessuno
Che sia odio o che sia amore, passera
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