"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.
Y tu cabeza está llena de ratas
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
Disparo contra el sol con la fuerza del ocaso
Mi ametralladora está llena de magia
Pero soy solo un hombre más
Cansado de correr en la dirección contraria
Sin podio de llegada y mi amor me corta la cara
Porque soy sólo un hombre más
Pero si pensás que estoy derrotado
Quiero que sepas que me la sigo jugando
Porque el tiempo, el tiempo no para
Unos días sí, otros no
Estoy sobreviviendo sin un rasguñón
Por la caridad de quien me detesta
Y tu cabeza está llena de rata
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
Yo no tengo fechas para recordar
Mis días se gastan de par en par
Buscando un sentido a todo esto
Las noches de frío es mejor no nacer
Las de calor se escoje matar o morir
Y así nos hacemos argentinos
Nos tildan de ladrones, maricas, faloperos
Y ellos sumergieron un país entero
Pues así se roban mas dinero
Y tu cabeza está llena de ratas
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
Disparo contra el sol con la fuerza del ocaso
Mi ametralladora está llena de magia
Pero soy solo un hombre más
Cansado de correr en la dirección contraria
Sin podio de llegada y mi amor me corta la cara
Porque soy sólo un hombre más
Pero si pensás que estoy derrotado
Quiero que sepas que me la sigo jugando
Porque el tiempo, el tiempo no para
Unos días sí, otros no
Estoy sobreviviendo sin un rasguñón
Por la caridad de quien me detesta
Y tu cabeza está llena de rata
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
Yo no tengo fechas para recordar
Mis días se gastan de par en par
Buscando un sentido a todo esto
Las noches de frío es mejor no nacer
Las de calor se escoje matar o morir
Y así nos hacemos argentinos
Nos tildan de ladrones, maricas, faloperos
Y ellos sumergieron un país entero
Pues así se roban mas dinero
Y tu cabeza está llena de ratas
Te compraste las acciones de esta farsa
Y el tiempo no para
Yo veo el futuro repetir el pasado
Veo un museo de grandes novedades
Y el tiempo no para, no para, no
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El Tiempo No Para Lyrics as written by Agenor Neto Arnaldo Brandao
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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