"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.
Si acaso tú no ves
Más allá de tu nariz
Y no oyes a una flor reír
Si no puedes hablar
Sin tener que oír tu voz
Utilizando el corazón
Amigo Sancho, escúchame
No todo tiene aquí un por qué
Un camino lo hacen los pies
Hay un mundo por descubrir
Y una vida que arrancar
De brazos del guion final
A veces siento al despertar
Que el sueño es la realidad
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
Si acaso tu opinión
Cabe en un sí o un no
Y no sabes rectificar
Si puedes definir
El odio o el amor
Amigo, qué desilusión
No todo es blanco o negro, es gris
Todo depende del matiz
Busca y aprende a distinguir
La luna puede calentar
Y el sol tus noches acunar
Los árboles mueren de pie
He visto un manantial llorar
Al ver sus aguas ir al mar
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
A veces siento al despertar
Que el sueño es la realidad
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla, usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
Más allá de tu nariz
Y no oyes a una flor reír
Si no puedes hablar
Sin tener que oír tu voz
Utilizando el corazón
Amigo Sancho, escúchame
No todo tiene aquí un por qué
Un camino lo hacen los pies
Hay un mundo por descubrir
Y una vida que arrancar
De brazos del guion final
A veces siento al despertar
Que el sueño es la realidad
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
Si acaso tu opinión
Cabe en un sí o un no
Y no sabes rectificar
Si puedes definir
El odio o el amor
Amigo, qué desilusión
No todo es blanco o negro, es gris
Todo depende del matiz
Busca y aprende a distinguir
La luna puede calentar
Y el sol tus noches acunar
Los árboles mueren de pie
He visto un manantial llorar
Al ver sus aguas ir al mar
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
A veces siento al despertar
Que el sueño es la realidad
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla, usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Bebe, danza, sueña, siente que el viento ha sido hecho para ti
Vive, escucha y habla usando para ello el corazón
Siente que la lluvia besa tu cara cuando haces el amor
Grita con el alma, grita tan alto
Que de tu vida, tú seas amigo, el único actor
Lyrics submitted by Elimination
Molinos de Viento Lyrics as written by Carlos Prieto Guijarro Alvarino Gomez De La Serena
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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i don't know spanish VERY well, but i really like this song. i also love the whole sound of it. their music is very unique and i love that.
[It's about the dialogue that Sancho and Don Quijote after the famous adventure in the windmills. Don Quijote confuses some windmills for some giants. Sancho reproaches his hallucination and Don Quijote explains that he sees not with his eyes, but with his heart and imagination.]
Windmills
If you can't see Beyond your nose And you can't hear a flower laugh If you can't speak Without having to hear your voice Using your heart
My friend Sancho, listen to me, Not everything here has a why A path is made by feet There's a world to discover And a life to pull From the final script's arms
Sometimes I feel when I awake That dreams are reality
Drink, dance, dream Feel like the wind Was made for you Live, listen and talk Using your heart for it Feel like the rain Kisses your face When you make love Scream with your soul Scream so loud That of your life, you are My friend, the only actor
If your opinion Fits in a yes or no And you don't know how to rectify If you can define Love or hate My friend, what a disappointment
Not everything is white, Or black: it's grey It depends on the shade Seek and learn to recognize
The moon can warm you up And the sun, your nights cradle The trees die on their feet.
Sometimes I feel when I awake That dreams are reality
Drink, dance, dream Feel like the wind Was made for you Live, listen and talk Using your heart for it Feel like the rain Kisses your face When you make love Scream with your soul Scream so loud That of your life, you are My friend, the only actor
Drink, dance, dream Feel like the wind Was made for you Live, listen and talk Using your heart for it Feel like the rain Kisses your face When you make love Scream with your soul Scream so loud That of your life, you are My friend, the only actor
this is my favorite Mago de Oz song. i never heard anything like this song.
Elimination, you forgot a part, after "The trees die on their feet." :
I've seen a source crying, seeing its water going to the see.
must be sea, not see =p
BIG MAGO DE OZ FAN!!!!!!!!! this song means alot to me ALOT !!! also the best song ever!!!
I L.O.V.E THIS PINCHE CANCION LO AMO, LO AMO
THIS IS MY #1 SONG OF ALL TIME
"DE QUE TU VIDA, TU SEAS AMIGO EL UNICO ACTOR"
SWEET VONAGE!
Awesome song, Mago de Oz Kicks ass! Cabrones!!!
Nesrin the part is "i have seen a waterhole,well or oasis" (it can also be source as you put it, but it reffers to water b/c of the "Al ver sus aguas ir al mar" (seeing its water going to sea)
I LOVE how he says corazon he says it like corathon haha VERY SEXY!!!!