"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.
Que se arruinen los canales de noticias
Con lo mucho que odio la televisión
Que se vuelvan anticuadas las sonrisas
Y se extingan todas las puestas de sol
Que se supriman las doctrinas y deberes
Que se terminen las películas de acción
Que se destruyan en el mundo los placeres
Y que se escriba hoy una última canción
Pero que me quedes tú, me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque yo, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
Que desaparezcan todos los vecinos
Y se coman las sobras de mi inocencia
Que se vayan uno a uno los amigos
Y acribillen mi pedazo de conciencia
Que se consuman las palabras en los labios
Que contaminen todo el agua del planeta
O que renuncien los filántropos y sabios
Y que se muera hoy hasta el ultimo poeta
Pero que me quedes tú y me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque ya, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
Pero que me quedes tú y me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque ya, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
Con lo mucho que odio la televisión
Que se vuelvan anticuadas las sonrisas
Y se extingan todas las puestas de sol
Que se supriman las doctrinas y deberes
Que se terminen las películas de acción
Que se destruyan en el mundo los placeres
Y que se escriba hoy una última canción
Pero que me quedes tú, me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque yo, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
Que desaparezcan todos los vecinos
Y se coman las sobras de mi inocencia
Que se vayan uno a uno los amigos
Y acribillen mi pedazo de conciencia
Que se consuman las palabras en los labios
Que contaminen todo el agua del planeta
O que renuncien los filántropos y sabios
Y que se muera hoy hasta el ultimo poeta
Pero que me quedes tú y me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque ya, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
Pero que me quedes tú y me quede tu abrazo
Y el beso que inventas cada día
Y que me quede aquí después del ocaso
Para siempre tu melancolía
Porque ya, ya lo sé, sí
Que dependo de ti
Si me quedas tú
Me queda la vida
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