"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.
cunque tu me has echado en el abandono
cunque ya han muerto todas mis ilusiones
En vez de maldecirte con justo encono
En mis sueños te colmo
En mis sueños te colmo
De bendiciones
Sufro la inmensa pena de tu extravío
Siento el dolor profundo de tu partida
Y lloro sin que sepas que el llanto mío
Tiene lágrimas negras
Tiene lágrimas negras
Como mi vida.
Sufro la inmensa pena de tu extravío
Siento el dolor profundo de tu partida
Y lloro sin que sepas que el llanto mío
Tiene lágrimas negras
Tiene lágrimas negras
Como mi vida.
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres, tu me quieres dejar
De tu vida me quieres quitar
Si tu eres como el aire que respiro
Oye morena conmigo vas a acabar
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Con tu aire de independencia
Hacer las cosas solamente a tu manera
c eso tu quieres llegar
Si tu me dejas ahora en la calle
Por esos detalles negrona me pongo fatal
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Yo te prefiero compartida
cntes que cambiar mi vida
No me importan los comentarios
Suceden cosas peores en el vecindario
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Mi amada mujer divina
Hoy quieres cambiar mi suerte
Mira prefiero mejor seguirte
cunque provoques en mi la muerte
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
cunque ya han muerto todas mis ilusiones
En vez de maldecirte con justo encono
En mis sueños te colmo
En mis sueños te colmo
De bendiciones
Sufro la inmensa pena de tu extravío
Siento el dolor profundo de tu partida
Y lloro sin que sepas que el llanto mío
Tiene lágrimas negras
Tiene lágrimas negras
Como mi vida.
Sufro la inmensa pena de tu extravío
Siento el dolor profundo de tu partida
Y lloro sin que sepas que el llanto mío
Tiene lágrimas negras
Tiene lágrimas negras
Como mi vida.
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres, tu me quieres dejar
De tu vida me quieres quitar
Si tu eres como el aire que respiro
Oye morena conmigo vas a acabar
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Con tu aire de independencia
Hacer las cosas solamente a tu manera
c eso tu quieres llegar
Si tu me dejas ahora en la calle
Por esos detalles negrona me pongo fatal
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Yo te prefiero compartida
cntes que cambiar mi vida
No me importan los comentarios
Suceden cosas peores en el vecindario
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Mi amada mujer divina
Hoy quieres cambiar mi suerte
Mira prefiero mejor seguirte
cunque provoques en mi la muerte
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
Tu me quieres dejar
Yo no quiero sufrir
Contigo me voy mi santa
cunque me cueste morir
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