"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.
Siempre discutiendo por asuntos que no valen la pena
Creando conflictos donde no hay problema
No pretendo ser perfecto
Pero prefiero ser honesto
Me refiero al aspecto conflictivo del contrato
Nos queremos de un amor que nos mata
Nos amamos y esa pasión nos quema
Como puedes ser tan dulce y cariñosa
Y tan de repente caliente como la brasa
Chica no te pongas brava suave
Nena solo quiero estar bien contigo
Negra dame tu amor
No me apartes de ti, no inventes mami
Intento leer en tus ansias intimas
Buscar repuestas que sequen tus lagrimas
Hacer que rías que no caigan mas victimas
Cazar de una vez esos malditos fantasmas
Tu eres un bonbon y te quiero con ternura
Pero a este paso acabamos con el son
Tu eres un bonbon y te quiero con dulzura
Pero con este ritmo se acaba la canción
Yo amo a esa mujer que es dulce como el azúcar
Cariñosa de buen humor y le gusta bailar
Ella me da fuerza me llena de alegría
Ella me fascina por ella me moriría
Me gusta mirarla cuando duerme en mi cama
Me gusta mirarla cuando ella se desnuda
Me gusta esa mujer que dice que me ama
Pero cuando se enchila mi mamita es la candela
Dulce con chile, tu eres mi dulce con chile
Tu eres mi bonbon de chocolate
Pero a veces mami te pones tan picante
Tu eres el bonbon que en mi cuerpo late
Tu eres tan dulce y también eres picante
Suave negra, suave suavecito
Suave negra que entre calorcito
Baila pegadito veras que sabrosito
Y tus penas que se den un paseito
Y que se vayan bien lejitos
Que nos dejan tranquilitos
Un tanito tranquilo
Creando conflictos donde no hay problema
No pretendo ser perfecto
Pero prefiero ser honesto
Me refiero al aspecto conflictivo del contrato
Nos queremos de un amor que nos mata
Nos amamos y esa pasión nos quema
Como puedes ser tan dulce y cariñosa
Y tan de repente caliente como la brasa
Chica no te pongas brava suave
Nena solo quiero estar bien contigo
Negra dame tu amor
No me apartes de ti, no inventes mami
Intento leer en tus ansias intimas
Buscar repuestas que sequen tus lagrimas
Hacer que rías que no caigan mas victimas
Cazar de una vez esos malditos fantasmas
Tu eres un bonbon y te quiero con ternura
Pero a este paso acabamos con el son
Tu eres un bonbon y te quiero con dulzura
Pero con este ritmo se acaba la canción
Yo amo a esa mujer que es dulce como el azúcar
Cariñosa de buen humor y le gusta bailar
Ella me da fuerza me llena de alegría
Ella me fascina por ella me moriría
Me gusta mirarla cuando duerme en mi cama
Me gusta mirarla cuando ella se desnuda
Me gusta esa mujer que dice que me ama
Pero cuando se enchila mi mamita es la candela
Dulce con chile, tu eres mi dulce con chile
Tu eres mi bonbon de chocolate
Pero a veces mami te pones tan picante
Tu eres el bonbon que en mi cuerpo late
Tu eres tan dulce y también eres picante
Suave negra, suave suavecito
Suave negra que entre calorcito
Baila pegadito veras que sabrosito
Y tus penas que se den un paseito
Y que se vayan bien lejitos
Que nos dejan tranquilitos
Un tanito tranquilo
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