"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.
Triste sister
Rodando en el amanecer, soltar
Un mundo paralelo se alinea
Se que toma tiempo ceder
Pero me alegro por ti
Salvaste la batalla
Y al fin ya no estás
Embarrada de mi
Triste sister
Regálame tu oración a dios
Préstame la llave maestra
Préstame el antiguo radar
Y abraza la lluvia con su sabiduría
Y tu no, no sabes nada
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban
Y tu tuviste valor
Triste sister
Y es que me acuerdo de ti
Te estaban esperando y en fin
Préstame la llave maestra
Préstame el antiguo radar
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban
Y tu tuviste valor
Viste el ombligo del sol de donde se alimenta el corazón
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban y tu tuviste valor
Rodando en el amanecer, soltar
Un mundo paralelo se alinea
Se que toma tiempo ceder
Pero me alegro por ti
Salvaste la batalla
Y al fin ya no estás
Embarrada de mi
Triste sister
Regálame tu oración a dios
Préstame la llave maestra
Préstame el antiguo radar
Y abraza la lluvia con su sabiduría
Y tu no, no sabes nada
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban
Y tu tuviste valor
Triste sister
Y es que me acuerdo de ti
Te estaban esperando y en fin
Préstame la llave maestra
Préstame el antiguo radar
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban
Y tu tuviste valor
Viste el ombligo del sol de donde se alimenta el corazón
Todas las máquinas se contorsionaban y tu tuviste valor
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Triste Sister Lyrics as written by Jesus Baez Caballero Angel Anto Mosqueda Dominguez
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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