"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.
Je le sens
Je le sais
Quand t'as mal à l'autre bout de la terre
Quand tu pleures, pendant des heures
Sur mon cœur
Je pourrais hurler
Le jurer même si je ne vois rien
D'où je suis Je sens ton chagrin
Quand je me vois sans tes mains
Sans tes bras Je ne peux plus respirer
Et j'entends si souvent le chant du vent
Qui vient pour me ramener
Vers tes Landes Sous ton ciel d'Irlande
Quitter ma vie sans préavis Je le ferais
Si tu m'aimes
Même si j'ai tort tout est plus fort
Que la raison, tout est plus fort
Que ton nom
Que je redis et que j'écrissans arrêt
Sur les écrans de ma vie
Et j'espère que chacune des aurores
Que je vois me mènera a ton corps
Je quitterai tout si tu m'aimes
Je sais que je n'me trompe pas
Que quelque part au loin là-bas
Tu penses encore à moi
Tu m'a gardé dans tes bras
Une place, un ébat
Dis-le moi tout bas, que tu m'aimes
Je le sens
Tu penses encore à moi
Je le sais tu m'as gardé tes bras
Dis-le moi
Que tu m'aimes
Je le sais
Quand t'as mal à l'autre bout de la terre
Quand tu pleures, pendant des heures
Sur mon cœur
Je pourrais hurler
Le jurer même si je ne vois rien
D'où je suis Je sens ton chagrin
Quand je me vois sans tes mains
Sans tes bras Je ne peux plus respirer
Et j'entends si souvent le chant du vent
Qui vient pour me ramener
Vers tes Landes Sous ton ciel d'Irlande
Quitter ma vie sans préavis Je le ferais
Si tu m'aimes
Même si j'ai tort tout est plus fort
Que la raison, tout est plus fort
Que ton nom
Que je redis et que j'écrissans arrêt
Sur les écrans de ma vie
Et j'espère que chacune des aurores
Que je vois me mènera a ton corps
Je quitterai tout si tu m'aimes
Je sais que je n'me trompe pas
Que quelque part au loin là-bas
Tu penses encore à moi
Tu m'a gardé dans tes bras
Une place, un ébat
Dis-le moi tout bas, que tu m'aimes
Je le sens
Tu penses encore à moi
Je le sais tu m'as gardé tes bras
Dis-le moi
Que tu m'aimes
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