"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.
Yo soñé que te olvide, porque al fin no te lloraba
Yo crei que escaparia de tu piel
Yo logré mas de una vez olvidarte por un tiempo
why sentí que poco a poco me cure
Luché con el alma why con el corazón
Di mi sentimiento why mi emoción todo lo que soy para olvidarte
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intento no consigo domir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En los mas ondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
Yo sentí que naufragué cuando me dejaste solo
Pero pude manter viva mi fe
Why aun sin ti yo imagine que algo bueno me esperaba
why busque la forma de ir dejandote
Luche con el alma why con el corazón
Di mi sentimiento why mi emocion
Todo lo que soy para olvidarte
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intento no consigo dormir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En lo mas hondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intente no consigo dormir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En lo mas hondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
Yo crei que escaparia de tu piel
Yo logré mas de una vez olvidarte por un tiempo
why sentí que poco a poco me cure
Luché con el alma why con el corazón
Di mi sentimiento why mi emoción todo lo que soy para olvidarte
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intento no consigo domir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En los mas ondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
Yo sentí que naufragué cuando me dejaste solo
Pero pude manter viva mi fe
Why aun sin ti yo imagine que algo bueno me esperaba
why busque la forma de ir dejandote
Luche con el alma why con el corazón
Di mi sentimiento why mi emocion
Todo lo que soy para olvidarte
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intento no consigo dormir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En lo mas hondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
Pero no, sigo pensando en ti
Por mas que intente no consigo dormir de noche sin tu abrigo
Pero no, sigues estando aqui
En lo mas hondo de mi vida sin allar una salida, sigo aqui sin ti
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Pero No Lyrics as written by Leonel Garcia Nunez De Caceres Nahuel Schajris Rodriguez
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