"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.
Por cuando te vi enfermo con mentiras
Este ladron cuenta se dio
Trapa mal hecho de trampas te lo juro
Que yo si te mato
Y con cada día que se pase recuérdate
Quién era el más poderoso
(No-oh-oh-oh)
(No-oh-oh-oh)
Don't let me, don't let me go
There is a venom in numerical lies
Your convalescent thorns
Are but a crown of magnets
They fold the shakes inside that third glass eye
Come on and give it to me
Come on and die
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
Ay, mi hija, no me llores
Porque te quito de esta cruz
Y anoche te vi caminado sin la alma de tu cuerpo
En los brazos sin luz
Stains fall into the brick wall severed
Four of them were watching while the other three did hide
The culprits spat the seed from a premium of glass
Shattering the sigil that you thought was deitized
(No-oh-oh-oh)
(No-oh-oh-oh)
Don't let me, don't let me go
There is a venom in numerical lies
Your convalescent thorns
Are but a crown of maggots
They rot the shakes inside that third glass eye
Come on and give it to me
Come on and die
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
Wait
I've seen the ark shake from your pneumonic tongue
But the braile that you weave of itself it shall read aloud
Yes it will
I said
she's falling, she's still falling
But no one wants to come
She's crawling, she's still crawling
On your burial ground
Said, she's falling, she's still falling
But no one wants to come
I said, she's crawling, she's still crawling
On your burial, ground
Este ladron cuenta se dio
Trapa mal hecho de trampas te lo juro
Que yo si te mato
Y con cada día que se pase recuérdate
Quién era el más poderoso
(No-oh-oh-oh)
(No-oh-oh-oh)
Don't let me, don't let me go
There is a venom in numerical lies
Your convalescent thorns
Are but a crown of magnets
They fold the shakes inside that third glass eye
Come on and give it to me
Come on and die
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
Ay, mi hija, no me llores
Porque te quito de esta cruz
Y anoche te vi caminado sin la alma de tu cuerpo
En los brazos sin luz
Stains fall into the brick wall severed
Four of them were watching while the other three did hide
The culprits spat the seed from a premium of glass
Shattering the sigil that you thought was deitized
(No-oh-oh-oh)
(No-oh-oh-oh)
Don't let me, don't let me go
There is a venom in numerical lies
Your convalescent thorns
Are but a crown of maggots
They rot the shakes inside that third glass eye
Come on and give it to me
Come on and die
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
In your viscera eyes
Cataracts close the blinds
Let me let comfort
Come drown by your side
Wait
I've seen the ark shake from your pneumonic tongue
But the braile that you weave of itself it shall read aloud
Yes it will
I said
she's falling, she's still falling
But no one wants to come
She's crawling, she's still crawling
On your burial ground
Said, she's falling, she's still falling
But no one wants to come
I said, she's crawling, she's still crawling
On your burial, ground
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