"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.
La lumière de juillet s'eteint sur les grèves et songeur, je laisse mes pensées se perdre á l'horizon flamboyant.
La rumeur des vagues m'apaise, je profite de cet instant précieux, invitant la chaude brise marine á raviver me sens alanguis.
Hanté par le mirage des jours heureux j'attends que naissent au large les échos de la nuit.
Mes pensées se noient à l'horizon.
Les heures fielnt, la mer soupire sous des astres lointains déposés en une pincée d'or tremblante sur les houles.
Elle ouvre sa danse hypnotique, et absorbe mon regard décoloré.
Telle une âme en suspension, je voudrais sans crainte disparaître sous le flots; Entendre jaillir des profondeurs leur complainte ensorcelée.
Elles m'appelleraient de leur royaume de nacre et d'écailles aigue marine pour m'emmener loin des miens, d'un monde qui m'est étranger.
Leur tenant la main, lentement, je voudrais sombrer dans de eaux noires m'accueillant silencieusement.
Dire adieu aux lueurs du matin, laisser les courants froids purifier mes pensées, statufier mes chairs, pour trouver le sommeil tout au fond de l'océan.
La rumeur des vagues m'apaise, je profite de cet instant précieux, invitant la chaude brise marine á raviver me sens alanguis.
Hanté par le mirage des jours heureux j'attends que naissent au large les échos de la nuit.
Mes pensées se noient à l'horizon.
Les heures fielnt, la mer soupire sous des astres lointains déposés en une pincée d'or tremblante sur les houles.
Elle ouvre sa danse hypnotique, et absorbe mon regard décoloré.
Telle une âme en suspension, je voudrais sans crainte disparaître sous le flots; Entendre jaillir des profondeurs leur complainte ensorcelée.
Elles m'appelleraient de leur royaume de nacre et d'écailles aigue marine pour m'emmener loin des miens, d'un monde qui m'est étranger.
Leur tenant la main, lentement, je voudrais sombrer dans de eaux noires m'accueillant silencieusement.
Dire adieu aux lueurs du matin, laisser les courants froids purifier mes pensées, statufier mes chairs, pour trouver le sommeil tout au fond de l'océan.
Lyrics submitted by uteinfullerton
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