"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.
( Quasimodo )
Quand les années auront passé
On retrouvera sous terre
Nos squelettes enlacés
Pour dire à l'univers
Combien Quasimodo aimait
Esméralda la zingara
Lui qui Dieu avait fait si laid
Pour l'aider à porter sa croix
pour l'aider à porter sa croix
Mangez mon corps, buvez mon sang
Vautours de Montfaucon
Que la mort au-delà do temps
Unisse nos deux noms
Laissez mon âme s'envoler
Loin des misères de la terre
Laisser mon amour se mêler
A la lumière de l'Univers
A la lumière de l'Univers
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Danse encore un peu pour moi
Je te désire à en mourir
Dans mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Laisse moi partir avec toi
Mourir pour oit n'est pas mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Viens t'endormir dans mes bras
Je te désire à en mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Au delà de l'au-delà
Mourir pour toi n'est pas mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Laisse-moi partir avec toi
Mourir pour toi n'est pas mourir
Quand les années auront passé
On retrouvera sous terre
Nos squelettes enlacés
Pour dire à l'univers
Combien Quasimodo aimait
Esméralda la zingara
Lui qui Dieu avait fait si laid
Pour l'aider à porter sa croix
pour l'aider à porter sa croix
Mangez mon corps, buvez mon sang
Vautours de Montfaucon
Que la mort au-delà do temps
Unisse nos deux noms
Laissez mon âme s'envoler
Loin des misères de la terre
Laisser mon amour se mêler
A la lumière de l'Univers
A la lumière de l'Univers
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Danse encore un peu pour moi
Je te désire à en mourir
Dans mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Laisse moi partir avec toi
Mourir pour oit n'est pas mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Viens t'endormir dans mes bras
Je te désire à en mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Au delà de l'au-delà
Mourir pour toi n'est pas mourir
Danse mon Esméralda
Chante mon Esméralda
Laisse-moi partir avec toi
Mourir pour toi n'est pas mourir
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Danse mon Esmeralda Lyrics as written by Riccardo Vincent Cocciante Luc Plamondon
Lyrics © Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
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