"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.
Si mañana me perdiera en un inmenso mar
Y la noche me cubriera con su manto estelar
¿A donde volaría mi ultima oración
El ultimo latido de mi azul corazón?
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería a ti
No supiste dar lo que yo te di
No supiste ver lo que hay en mi
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
Una final memoria para recordar
¿A quien me llevaría a mi destino astral?
Hermosa compañía para la eternidad
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
Una final memoria para recordar
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
No, no sería a ti
Ya no
Si la noche me cubriera con su manto estelar
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
Y la noche me cubriera con su manto estelar
¿A donde volaría mi ultima oración
El ultimo latido de mi azul corazón?
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería a ti
No supiste dar lo que yo te di
No supiste ver lo que hay en mi
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
Una final memoria para recordar
¿A quien me llevaría a mi destino astral?
Hermosa compañía para la eternidad
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
Una final memoria para recordar
No sería a ti, no sería a ti
Esta vez ya no sería así
No, no sería a ti
Ya no
Si la noche me cubriera con su manto estelar
Si tan solo un fragmento pudiera conservar
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When I first heard this song I was going through a very bad relationship, one sided most of the time, because I loved her and tried to please her but it was never enough, and I was never enough. And it hurt so much, to know that no matter how hard I tried it was worth nothing to her. In the end she left me (!!!) and I finally realized that from the beginning it wasn't worth it, and this song really touched me when I heard it because it was almost like somebody took what I'd gone through and written the ending to it. Even today when I hear it, it makes me reflect on all the pain we people go through to find that one true love, and how many bad experiences we have to go through to (hopefully) find it.
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