"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.
Vas caminando despacio
Sin ganas de sonreír, de sonreír
Hemos quedado en el barrio
Unos litros y cien duros de hachís
Perdidos en cualquier lado
Soñando con escapar, con escapar
La mayoría del paro
Y el que curra del trabajo temporal
Han pasado 10 años
¿Mis colegas dónde están?
El que no anda en el mako
Hare poco lo acabaron de enterar
La heroína no acudió a su funeral
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
Existe una alternativa
Legalizar
Esto tiene que cambiar
Lo vamos a cambiar
¿Qué te ha pasado princesa
Que no te veo sonreír, sonreír?
Aun no tienes tu dosis
Por la noche te tienes que porstituír
Maldita mierda prohibida
Que nuestros sueños rompió, los rumpió
Hablabamos de injusticias
Comenzábamos nuestra revolución
Comenzábamos nuestra revolución
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
Existe una alternativa
Legalizar
Esto tiene que cambiar
Lo vamos a cambiar
Agresividad
No somos ratas de ciudad
Agresividad
Contra el estado del malestar
Agresividad
No somos ratas de ciudad
Agresividad
Contra el estado del malestar
Del paraíso al infierno
Hay un paso nada más
La prohibición es un business
La droga existe y no la vas a eliminar
La solución consiste en legalizar
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
A mis colegas y a la peña en general
No os dejéis nunca eslavizar,
La unión hace la fuerza
Nunca, no la has de olvidar
Sin ganas de sonreír, de sonreír
Hemos quedado en el barrio
Unos litros y cien duros de hachís
Perdidos en cualquier lado
Soñando con escapar, con escapar
La mayoría del paro
Y el que curra del trabajo temporal
Han pasado 10 años
¿Mis colegas dónde están?
El que no anda en el mako
Hare poco lo acabaron de enterar
La heroína no acudió a su funeral
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
Existe una alternativa
Legalizar
Esto tiene que cambiar
Lo vamos a cambiar
¿Qué te ha pasado princesa
Que no te veo sonreír, sonreír?
Aun no tienes tu dosis
Por la noche te tienes que porstituír
Maldita mierda prohibida
Que nuestros sueños rompió, los rumpió
Hablabamos de injusticias
Comenzábamos nuestra revolución
Comenzábamos nuestra revolución
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
Existe una alternativa
Legalizar
Esto tiene que cambiar
Lo vamos a cambiar
Agresividad
No somos ratas de ciudad
Agresividad
Contra el estado del malestar
Agresividad
No somos ratas de ciudad
Agresividad
Contra el estado del malestar
Del paraíso al infierno
Hay un paso nada más
La prohibición es un business
La droga existe y no la vas a eliminar
La solución consiste en legalizar
Ey, chaval
Siempre a la sombra de la sociedad
Somos la causa de su malestar
Escúlpele al sistema y nunca dejes de molestar
No, chaval
No es ley de vida, tu desigualdad
No te dieron la oportunidad
A mis colegas y a la peña en general
No os dejéis nunca eslavizar,
La unión hace la fuerza
Nunca, no la has de olvidar
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Mis Colegas Lyrics as written by Jose Miguel Redin Redin Roberto Ganan Ojea
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My Mates
You're walking slowly, not feeling like smiling, smiling We have remained in the neighborhood, a few litres and a hundred stoned on hashish Lost in any place, dreaming with escaping, escaping Most of the strikers, and those who work temporary jobs 10 years have gone by, my mates, where are they? Whoever's not in jail, was recently buried Heroin didn't assist the funeral
Hey, kid, always in society's shadow We're the cause of its ill-being Spit on the system and never stop bothering No, kid, your inequality isn't law of life You weren't given the chance Spit on the system and never stop bothering
There's an alternative, to legalize This has to change, we will change it
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