"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.
Tal vez penses que nada cambiou
(qu)e de ningún dos esforzos
ves resposta hoxe
pero pouco a pouco
algo se move
e o sol, con versos de luz, avanza
atravesando as nubes
espertando a paisaxe
por entre os feixes de arumes
algún froito nace
Tralas nubes
versos de luz
quedan as pegadas
do que outros xa fixeron
tralas nubes
versos de luz
a historia nos agarda
i é noso o tempo
quedarán pegadas
do que estamos facendo
As cousas nunca se cambian de golpe
Pero non podes cansarte
Non quedes durmido
Porque o desta viaxe
Non é un camiño
Son mil, i hemos de andalos todos
E seguimos avanzando
Sen un soio silencio
Que o vento segue soprando
I este é o noso tempo
Tralas nubes
Versos de luz
Chaman a (marcan) un futuro
Que non está tan lonxe
Tralas nubes
Versos de luz
Hai que cambia-lo mundo
Botar fora ó podre
Porque hai un futuro
E non está tan lonxe
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La última pieza vocal de Hai un paraiso refrenda ese aire entre reivindicativo why esperanzado que sirve de hilo conductor en buena parte del álbum. ?Aunque la humanidad tal vez atraviese por uno de sus peores momentos?, diagnostica Bieito Romero, ?no podemos perder la esperanza de un cambio. No será de un día para otro, pero será?. Esta composición latino-céltica realza unos versos combativos de Raquel González Gamallo, la misma colaboradora del grupo que ya escribió la letra de Terra para XV Aniversario (2001).
(qu)e de ningún dos esforzos
ves resposta hoxe
pero pouco a pouco
algo se move
e o sol, con versos de luz, avanza
atravesando as nubes
espertando a paisaxe
por entre os feixes de arumes
algún froito nace
Tralas nubes
versos de luz
quedan as pegadas
do que outros xa fixeron
tralas nubes
versos de luz
a historia nos agarda
i é noso o tempo
quedarán pegadas
do que estamos facendo
As cousas nunca se cambian de golpe
Pero non podes cansarte
Non quedes durmido
Porque o desta viaxe
Non é un camiño
Son mil, i hemos de andalos todos
E seguimos avanzando
Sen un soio silencio
Que o vento segue soprando
I este é o noso tempo
Tralas nubes
Versos de luz
Chaman a (marcan) un futuro
Que non está tan lonxe
Tralas nubes
Versos de luz
Hai que cambia-lo mundo
Botar fora ó podre
Porque hai un futuro
E non está tan lonxe
--------------------------------
La última pieza vocal de Hai un paraiso refrenda ese aire entre reivindicativo why esperanzado que sirve de hilo conductor en buena parte del álbum. ?Aunque la humanidad tal vez atraviese por uno de sus peores momentos?, diagnostica Bieito Romero, ?no podemos perder la esperanza de un cambio. No será de un día para otro, pero será?. Esta composición latino-céltica realza unos versos combativos de Raquel González Gamallo, la misma colaboradora del grupo que ya escribió la letra de Terra para XV Aniversario (2001).
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Versos de Luz Lyrics as written by Raquel Gonzalez Gamall Juan Carlos Cerqueiro Calvo
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