"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.
Eres como una predicción de las buenas
Eres como una dosis alta en las venas
Y el deseo gira en espiral
Porque mi amor por ti es total
Y es para siempre
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Sin ti
Eres la enfermedad y el enfermero
Y ya me has convertido
En tu perro faldero
Sabes que sin ti
Ya yo no soy
Sabes que a donde vayas voy
Naturalmente
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Sin ti
Eres como una dosis alta en las venas
Y el deseo gira en espiral
Porque mi amor por ti es total
Y es para siempre
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Sin ti
Eres la enfermedad y el enfermero
Y ya me has convertido
En tu perro faldero
Sabes que sin ti
Ya yo no soy
Sabes que a donde vayas voy
Naturalmente
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Después de ti la pared
No me faltes nunca
Debajo el asfalto
Y más abajo estaría yo
Sin ti
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i've never quite been able to understand exactly what she means by "la pared".. does it mean like when the guy leaves her theres like a wall she can't climb over? like shes stuck in her heartbreak? because she can't get over him.. and once she does that wall will be broken down and she can keep moving on?
i also think it might mean after the guy leaves she builds wall around her and shuts herself from the world.. well i guess both meanings are similar.. what are ur guys opinions?