"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.
U odbljesku svijetla zasjala je suza
to mjesto je tada smrdjelo po bolu
sagnula je glavu i šapnula tiho
odsutne rijeci udarale su polako.
rekla je da nitko ne zna kako je to
kada znaš da si dotaknuo dno
kada zaista trebaš tople ruke
kada stišceš ništa i placeš od muke
Rekla je da zna da je ucinila zlo
ali zivot joj nikada nije dao birati
pitala me gdje su bili svi koji ju pljuju
kada joj nitko nije htio pomoæi.
ona samo zeli ponovno zivjeti
i kaze da ju nemaju pravo osudjivati
ona zna da je moglo biti bolje
ali odluka je njena i ne zeli se kajati.
Tko ima pravo da naplacuje bol,
tko ima hrabrosti da osudjuje ljude
svatko svoju sudbinu kroji
zivi svoj zivot i pusti druge
Njezina beba sada je pokopana
njezina krv sada je na smetlištu
ta noc je bila toliko mraèna
pogledi osude samo su pojacavali strah
taj krevet više ne zeli nikada vidjeti
ali stalno se s njim mora suocavati
i sada, godinama poslije, suze opet teku
zagrlio sam ju iskreno i pokušao razumjeti.
mozeš li i ti?
to mjesto je tada smrdjelo po bolu
sagnula je glavu i šapnula tiho
odsutne rijeci udarale su polako.
rekla je da nitko ne zna kako je to
kada znaš da si dotaknuo dno
kada zaista trebaš tople ruke
kada stišceš ništa i placeš od muke
Rekla je da zna da je ucinila zlo
ali zivot joj nikada nije dao birati
pitala me gdje su bili svi koji ju pljuju
kada joj nitko nije htio pomoæi.
ona samo zeli ponovno zivjeti
i kaze da ju nemaju pravo osudjivati
ona zna da je moglo biti bolje
ali odluka je njena i ne zeli se kajati.
Tko ima pravo da naplacuje bol,
tko ima hrabrosti da osudjuje ljude
svatko svoju sudbinu kroji
zivi svoj zivot i pusti druge
Njezina beba sada je pokopana
njezina krv sada je na smetlištu
ta noc je bila toliko mraèna
pogledi osude samo su pojacavali strah
taj krevet više ne zeli nikada vidjeti
ali stalno se s njim mora suocavati
i sada, godinama poslije, suze opet teku
zagrlio sam ju iskreno i pokušao razumjeti.
mozeš li i ti?
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