"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.
Immi daga uimpi geneta,
Lana beððos et' iouintutos
Blatus ceti, cantla carami
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
Pid in cete tu toue suoine,
Pid uregisi peli doniobi?
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
Pid in cete tu toue suoine
Aia mape coime, adrete!
In blatugabagli uorete,
Cante snon celiIui in cete!
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Selgin blatos tou' iouintutos
Nu, uoregon, cu, uorigamos,
Lamman, cu, suuercin lingamos,
Indui uelui cantla canamos!
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Ne moi iantus gnaton uorega,
Iantus drucocunos uoregon,
Cante toi in medie cete
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Cu allate, papon sod urege,
EððiIo de iantu in cridie
VediIumi, cante moi uosta!
Ne, a gnata, cante t' usstami,
Ne uostami, ne te carami
Ne carami, nec carasumi
Boua daga uimpi geneta
Immi trouga, lana nariIas
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Lana beððos et' iouintutos
Blatus ceti, cantla carami
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
Pid in cete tu toue suoine,
Pid uregisi peli doniobi?
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
Pid in cete tu toue suoine
Aia mape coime, adrete!
In blatugabagli uorete,
Cante snon celiIui in cete!
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Selgin blatos tou' iouintutos
Nu, uoregon, cu, uorigamos,
Lamman, cu, suuercin lingamos,
Indui uelui cantla canamos!
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Ne moi iantus gnaton uorega,
Iantus drucocunos uoregon,
Cante toi in medie cete
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Cu allate, papon sod urege,
EððiIo de iantu in cridie
VediIumi, cante moi uosta!
Ne, a gnata, cante t' usstami,
Ne uostami, ne te carami
Ne carami, nec carasumi
Boua daga uimpi geneta
Immi trouga, lana nariIas
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
Vrit, me lindos dubnon, piseti
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I've studied Scots Gaelic and some Irish (and a bit of Welsh) and there is quite a bit that I recognise in here. I've looked at Gaulish and Cornish before and recognise significant Gaelic matches. Where Scots and Irish Gaelic differ the Gaulish and Cornish words match the Scots Gaelic(Pictish?).
lana(full) is like lán (full) blat- (flower) is like blath (flower) cantla(songs) is like caint (chat) carami(I love) is like cara(a friend) and mi(I) doniobi(beings, people?) is like daoine(people/men) or Welsh dynion(people/men) tu is tu (you) mape(boy) is like Welsh map(son), Gaelic mac(son)
Lindos(pool) is like linn(pool) e.g. Dublin / Dubh linn (black pool)
N’immi mapos, immi drucocu(I'm not a boy I'm the bad wolf) is close to Nil mé mac, is mé droch cú (I'm not a son, I'm a bad dog(hunting dog/hound))
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cridie(heart) is like cridhe(heart) in SG and CroÃ(heart) in Irish
I don't think the translation is exact I think it has been given a deeper meaning; cante clearly means with: cante toi (with you) cante moi uosta! (with me stay) so uosta means stay and then: Ne, a gnata, ne uostami, ne te carami! (No, girl, I'm not staying with you and don't love you.) Or more literally: No, girl, not stay me, not you I love (No girl, I won't stay, I don't love you)
NB That 'a' in 'a gnata'(calling her 'girl') is typical gaelic vocative case. 'hey, a chailÃni' (hey girls), 'hello a Chaluim' (hello Calum).
Then we have present tense Immi(I am) Gaelic=Is mi, changes to past tense Boua(I was) Gaelic=Ba mi
And then some more embellishing: Immi trouga, lana nariIas which they tell us means Now I'm poor and overcome with shame
Except there is no word for 'now' in there (only implied) and the word given for 'overcome' is in fact lana again which Gaelic suggests means full, complete, total. So it translates more closely as I am poor, full of shame. Oh! and I've just noticed, nariIas(shame) is like Gaelic and Irish náire and Gaelic truagh means wretched/miserable so Gaulish Immi trouga, lana nariIas is very close to Gaelic Is mi truagh, là n nà ire English I am wretched, full of shame
And finally we have Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti, which obviously means I'm off to Dublin to get pissed ;-)
These can be checked at faclair.com/ (Scots Gaelic) and potafocal.com (Irish)