"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.
(From Outlaw Star, originally in Japanese)
I don't know what words I can say
The wind has a way to talk to me
Flowers sleep, a silent lullaby
I pray for reply, I'm ready
Quiet day calms me
Oh serenity, someone please
Tell me, what is it they say
Maybe I will know one day
I don't know what words I can say
The wind has a way to talk to me
Flowers sleep, a silent lullaby
I pray for reply, I'm ready
I don't know what words I can say
The wind has a way to talk to me
Flowers sleep, a silent lullaby
I pray for reply, I'm ready
Quiet day calms me
Oh serenity, someone please
Tell me, what is it they say
Maybe I will know one day
I don't know what words I can say
The wind has a way to talk to me
Flowers sleep, a silent lullaby
I pray for reply, I'm ready
Lyrics submitted by IndredCold
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this isn't the actual translation. If it was a literal translation, it wouldn't rhyme like that.
Most likely, when the cartoon was transfered to the US, they made a new song.
yeah, its pretty close though, the full lyrics go like this:
one soundless midday the wind was fresh and clean the flowerpetals swayed as if they were asleep
this serene feeling tell me, what's the name people use for it?
tell me a story that's locked away in the white-sand moon let me hear it as gently as light shining down
-instrumental-
will the time come? when will you know the pain in my heart? then you'd be able to be gentler that you are now
such a warm feeling tell me, what's the name people give to it?
softly, let me hear of the distant future so bright it can't be seen, like a white-sand moon
anyway, i love this song, my favorite acutualy. it taught me my first japanese and the credit artwork has been and inspiration to me for a long time. if you can find the full japanese verson, check it out. it sounds incredible, like what the moon would be like if it were a paradise and not just a dead rock. = )