"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 acompaña la fuerza de siete dragones de fuego
Navegación celeste estudiada técnica de vuelo
Viento a favor, expandirse en todas direcciones
Siempre perdiendo preludiando tiempos mejores
Aunque batalle yo no quiero desafíos
Sólo máximo respeto dame lo que es mío
No existe competición para tanta hipocresía
Somos balseros remando hacia nuestra propia deriva
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
A enemigo que huye: puente de plata
Que cada palo aguante su vela en esta cruzada
Fabricando color
Voy levantando los andamiajes de las palabras
Y de la calle de la rima
Gris asfalto candelas retardan sueños invencibles
¿Dices?
¿Qué no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol?
No quites hierro
Hablar de lo que una no sabe trae mal agüero
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
Quien engaña no gana te dice la canillas pa' que la escuches
Que aunque todos nos la sabemos, nos las tragamos
Nos las bebemos! Tú escoges!
Camino lento, llego y encuentro, voy pisando rápido
Tapa, trampa, grita, escapa, ¡qué yo paso!
Entre gachos y traperos, trepas y rumberos
Hoy aquí yo me encuentro, tu me enchufas, yo te cuento
Dentro llora, llueve
Fuera llueve, duele
Haciendo cola
Buscando cola
Aquí no existen inocentes
Aprovechando los favores del tiempo
Primavera llegará
Porque el invierno ya no puede más durar
Como el aire es el escudo de la tierra
Estrellas fugaces producidas por partículas
Menores que un grano de arena
Dejemos estela
Empleemos a fondo
En lo pequeño está la fuerza
Yo respondo
Como el fuego, cambio contínuo todo lo consume
Contemplar las tinieblas desde la tele se asume
Echando sapos y culebras por la boca
Que si quieres oír tonterías cambia de día
Que si quieres oír realidades
Dime donde vas, dime donde estás
¡Relájate! ¡siéntate y escucha!
Lo quitan, lo ponen, lo cambian, lo pisan
Lo quitan, lo tuercen, lo tiran, lo remueven
Y vuelta a empezar otra vez ¡ten cuidao!
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
Navegación celeste estudiada técnica de vuelo
Viento a favor, expandirse en todas direcciones
Siempre perdiendo preludiando tiempos mejores
Aunque batalle yo no quiero desafíos
Sólo máximo respeto dame lo que es mío
No existe competición para tanta hipocresía
Somos balseros remando hacia nuestra propia deriva
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
A enemigo que huye: puente de plata
Que cada palo aguante su vela en esta cruzada
Fabricando color
Voy levantando los andamiajes de las palabras
Y de la calle de la rima
Gris asfalto candelas retardan sueños invencibles
¿Dices?
¿Qué no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol?
No quites hierro
Hablar de lo que una no sabe trae mal agüero
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
Quien engaña no gana te dice la canillas pa' que la escuches
Que aunque todos nos la sabemos, nos las tragamos
Nos las bebemos! Tú escoges!
Camino lento, llego y encuentro, voy pisando rápido
Tapa, trampa, grita, escapa, ¡qué yo paso!
Entre gachos y traperos, trepas y rumberos
Hoy aquí yo me encuentro, tu me enchufas, yo te cuento
Dentro llora, llueve
Fuera llueve, duele
Haciendo cola
Buscando cola
Aquí no existen inocentes
Aprovechando los favores del tiempo
Primavera llegará
Porque el invierno ya no puede más durar
Como el aire es el escudo de la tierra
Estrellas fugaces producidas por partículas
Menores que un grano de arena
Dejemos estela
Empleemos a fondo
En lo pequeño está la fuerza
Yo respondo
Como el fuego, cambio contínuo todo lo consume
Contemplar las tinieblas desde la tele se asume
Echando sapos y culebras por la boca
Que si quieres oír tonterías cambia de día
Que si quieres oír realidades
Dime donde vas, dime donde estás
¡Relájate! ¡siéntate y escucha!
Lo quitan, lo ponen, lo cambian, lo pisan
Lo quitan, lo tuercen, lo tiran, lo remueven
Y vuelta a empezar otra vez ¡ten cuidao!
Quien engaña no gana
Aquí quien engaña no gana
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