"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 tú no aguantas bara en la carrilla que se carga
Te cagas en la leche y somos peor que leche amarga
Y juntos celebramos si te enchilas o te ardes
No es que no nos importe sino que nos vale madres
El póngase flojito mientras yo lo apendejeo
Usted no diga frio no diga papá soy feo
Tiramos puro carro a ver a quien le queda el saco
Y si fumamos el tapete es porque se acabó el tabaco, güey
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Vamos a hacerte el paro haciendo un disco no muy caro
Venimos decididos a quedarnos con tu varo
Vender miles de álbumes a los fresas we just wanna
Rayarles sus ropitas y quedarnos con su lana
Encarreraderazos de bajada y sin frenos
Somos los feos y malos somos amigos del bueno
Somos los que en la playa chingan los planes chingones
Somos los super chilangos entre tú y tus vacaciones, güey
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Te cagas en la leche y somos peor que leche amarga
Y juntos celebramos si te enchilas o te ardes
No es que no nos importe sino que nos vale madres
El póngase flojito mientras yo lo apendejeo
Usted no diga frio no diga papá soy feo
Tiramos puro carro a ver a quien le queda el saco
Y si fumamos el tapete es porque se acabó el tabaco, güey
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Vamos a hacerte el paro haciendo un disco no muy caro
Venimos decididos a quedarnos con tu varo
Vender miles de álbumes a los fresas we just wanna
Rayarles sus ropitas y quedarnos con su lana
Encarreraderazos de bajada y sin frenos
Somos los feos y malos somos amigos del bueno
Somos los que en la playa chingan los planes chingones
Somos los super chilangos entre tú y tus vacaciones, güey
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Here we kum and we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna
They just want your tepalcuana mana
Here we kum and we don't care nacha
Let's make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
Make varo varo hacer varo varo varo hacer
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