"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.
wo yi wei tan cheng shi suo you yi qie de da an
suo yi quan bu de li you zhong jue de shi zi ran
huai yi ye jian jian bian tan
wo yi wei hui yi shi cai hui wan quan de se cai
suo yi dui ni wo wei lai
chong wei shi qu qi dai
wo xiang xin ni ni jiu shi ai
(wo zhi neng rang rang ni li kai)
tu ran jian ni lian man dou bu man
xiang ye bu (mei) xiang
jiu zhe me tui fan
jiu zhe e shuo guo qu zhi shi nao ju yi chang
jiu zhe yang ni lian tan dou bu tan
kan ye bu kan xiang yu ni wu guan
xiang shi zhi you wo hai ke yi cheng shou zhe wu jie de yi han
ENGLISH TRANSLATION :
I thought that honesty is the answer to everything
so all reasonings always feel natural
suspicion gradually taper off
I thought that reminiscence is completely colourful
so to you i've never, still haven't lose anticipation
I believe you that you are love
(I can only let you leave)
Suddenly you don't even bother to conceal
Don't even bother to think
just overthrow like this
just like that (you) say the past is just a period of thetrics
just like this you won't even visit
won't even look as if no connection with you
seems like only I can bear this unreasonable regret
我以為坦誠是所有一切的答案
所以全部的理由總覺得是自然
懷疑也漸漸變淡
@我以為回憶是彩繪完全的色彩
所以對你我未來 從未失去期待
我相信你 你就是愛
(我只能讓 讓你離開)
#突然間你連瞞都不瞞
想也不(沒)想 就這麼推翻
就這麼說過去只是鬧劇一場
就這樣 你連探都不探
看也不看 像與你無關
像是只有我還可以承受 這無解的遺憾#
suo yi quan bu de li you zhong jue de shi zi ran
huai yi ye jian jian bian tan
wo yi wei hui yi shi cai hui wan quan de se cai
suo yi dui ni wo wei lai
chong wei shi qu qi dai
wo xiang xin ni ni jiu shi ai
(wo zhi neng rang rang ni li kai)
tu ran jian ni lian man dou bu man
xiang ye bu (mei) xiang
jiu zhe me tui fan
jiu zhe e shuo guo qu zhi shi nao ju yi chang
jiu zhe yang ni lian tan dou bu tan
kan ye bu kan xiang yu ni wu guan
xiang shi zhi you wo hai ke yi cheng shou zhe wu jie de yi han
ENGLISH TRANSLATION :
I thought that honesty is the answer to everything
so all reasonings always feel natural
suspicion gradually taper off
I thought that reminiscence is completely colourful
so to you i've never, still haven't lose anticipation
I believe you that you are love
(I can only let you leave)
Suddenly you don't even bother to conceal
Don't even bother to think
just overthrow like this
just like that (you) say the past is just a period of thetrics
just like this you won't even visit
won't even look as if no connection with you
seems like only I can bear this unreasonable regret
我以為坦誠是所有一切的答案
所以全部的理由總覺得是自然
懷疑也漸漸變淡
@我以為回憶是彩繪完全的色彩
所以對你我未來 從未失去期待
我相信你 你就是愛
(我只能讓 讓你離開)
#突然間你連瞞都不瞞
想也不(沒)想 就這麼推翻
就這麼說過去只是鬧劇一場
就這樣 你連探都不探
看也不看 像與你無關
像是只有我還可以承受 這無解的遺憾#
Lyrics submitted by justling
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