"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.
Me dejaste un beso en la gaveta
Y un brasier tirado en el sofá
Un ataque de celos en la mesa
Y tu perfume pegado en la pared
Me dejaste el mundo de cabeza
Y un grito en el contestador
Que anunciaba con toda certeza
Que esta vez se te acabo el amor
Me dejaste un pero y un porque
Unos cuantos insultos y un adiós
Una duda flotando en mi cabeza
Y la promesa de no volver jamás
Lo que siento lo gurdo en la nevera
Por si un día decides regresar
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
Me vendiste un sueño al dos por uno
Y me dejaste solo realidad
Una casa minada de recuerdos
Y el dentífrico aplastado a la mitad
Me dejaste el tiempo que perdí, te llevaste mi despertador
Me dejaste la ropa interior, que te di para quitártela
Lo que siento será cuestión de tiempo
Para ver si se queda o se va
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
Y un brasier tirado en el sofá
Un ataque de celos en la mesa
Y tu perfume pegado en la pared
Me dejaste el mundo de cabeza
Y un grito en el contestador
Que anunciaba con toda certeza
Que esta vez se te acabo el amor
Me dejaste un pero y un porque
Unos cuantos insultos y un adiós
Una duda flotando en mi cabeza
Y la promesa de no volver jamás
Lo que siento lo gurdo en la nevera
Por si un día decides regresar
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
Me vendiste un sueño al dos por uno
Y me dejaste solo realidad
Una casa minada de recuerdos
Y el dentífrico aplastado a la mitad
Me dejaste el tiempo que perdí, te llevaste mi despertador
Me dejaste la ropa interior, que te di para quitártela
Lo que siento será cuestión de tiempo
Para ver si se queda o se va
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
Que hago con este cementerio de sueños
Y con toda mi mitad
Con esta deuda de afectos
Y con tanta libertad
Que hago con este insomnio en las noches
Y mi falta de apetito
Donde meto los reproches
Y tu foto si la pongo o la quito
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