"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.
Muitas vezes o coração
Não consegue compreender
O que a mente não faz questão
Nem tem forças pra obedecer
Quantos sonhos já destruí
E deixei escapar das mãos
Se o futuro assim permitir
Não pretendo viver em vão
Meu amor não estamos sós
Tem um mundo a esperar por nós
No infinito do céu azul
Pode ter vida em Marte
Então, vem cá me dá a sua língua
Então vem, eu quero abraçar você
Seu poder vem do sol
Minha medida
Então vem, vamos viver a vida
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Vou querer me mudar para uma life on mars
Muitas vezes o coração
Não consegue compreender
O que a mente não faz questão
Nem tem forças pra obedecer
Quantos sonhos já destruí
E deixei escapar das mãos
Se o futuro assim permitir
Não pretendo viver em vão
Meu amor, não estamos sós
Tem um mundo a esperar por nós
No infinito do céu azul
Pode ter vida em Marte
Então, vem cá me dá a sua língua
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Seu poder vem do sol
Minha medida
Então vem, vamos viver a vida
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Vou querer me mudar para uma life on mars
Não consegue compreender
O que a mente não faz questão
Nem tem forças pra obedecer
Quantos sonhos já destruí
E deixei escapar das mãos
Se o futuro assim permitir
Não pretendo viver em vão
Meu amor não estamos sós
Tem um mundo a esperar por nós
No infinito do céu azul
Pode ter vida em Marte
Então, vem cá me dá a sua língua
Então vem, eu quero abraçar você
Seu poder vem do sol
Minha medida
Então vem, vamos viver a vida
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Vou querer me mudar para uma life on mars
Muitas vezes o coração
Não consegue compreender
O que a mente não faz questão
Nem tem forças pra obedecer
Quantos sonhos já destruí
E deixei escapar das mãos
Se o futuro assim permitir
Não pretendo viver em vão
Meu amor, não estamos sós
Tem um mundo a esperar por nós
No infinito do céu azul
Pode ter vida em Marte
Então, vem cá me dá a sua língua
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Seu poder vem do sol
Minha medida
Então vem, vamos viver a vida
Então vem, senão eu vou perder quem sou
Vou querer me mudar para uma life on mars
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Life on Mars? Lyrics as written by David Bowie
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translation: when the things of the heart just can't understand what the mind doesn't question and doesn't have the strength to follow how many dreams i already destroyed and let slip out of my hands and if the future this permits i won't live in "vao"? my love we aren't alone there is a world waiting for us from the infinite blue sky there can be life on mars so come here give me your tongue so come i want to hold you your power comes from the sun my measure so come let's live life so come or else i'm going to lose who i am i'm going to want to change for a life on mars
Thank you for the interpretation. I am learning Portuguese and music is a great way to help. And I love Seu Jorge.
"em vão" means "in vain" Great song, I can't decide If I like the Original one, or the new one from the Studio Sessions better
Amazing. Seu just adds so much to this song and all the emotional intensity is completely unbelievable. Seu Jorge has an incredible talent. try translating this page, it is completely different than the original by David Bowie. Much more...of a love song, I'd say. But simply beyond amazing.
One of my favorite songs.
seu jorge's voice is incredible and what he does with this song is wonderful. he transforms this song into something unrecognisably his own and gives it so much passion.
purevolume.com/hakarat check this out if you are bored and care to listen to a recording of mine of this song. the first part is me singing the lyrics in english and the second part is me trying my best to sing along with seu jorge.