"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.
A présent que tu erres
A travers des terres
Qui me sont étrangères
Là où la nuit est souveraine…
Parfois ton visage émerge
De cette foule incandescente…
Je vois alors clair en moi.
Je reste prisonnière
De peur que tu ne disparaisses,
Tel un amer souvenir,
Qui hanterait mon âme.
Je chanterai ce blâme,
Pétrifiée dans ma destinée.
Les anges t’ont pris la main
Puis ont scellé ton dam.
Parfois ta voix caresse me sens
Et me laisse dans l’absence
De ce monde rempli de messages insensés.
Sons, couleurs s’évanouissent autour de moi,
Je m’achemine vers un monde invisible
Où règnent les songes.
Je reste prisonnière
De peur que tu ne disparaisses,
Tel un amer souvenir,
Qui hanterait mon âme.
En moi survit l’espoir
Un jour de te revoir.
Ensemble, remontons le temps
Et gagnons notre sphère originelle !
Ta voix me parvient,
Etouffée par les cris des damnés…
Et ta douleur se déverse
Dans les méandres de mon âmes…
May that ghost way cast my spell to void
By taking away with my life coldness, pain and oblivion.
A travers des terres
Qui me sont étrangères
Là où la nuit est souveraine…
Parfois ton visage émerge
De cette foule incandescente…
Je vois alors clair en moi.
Je reste prisonnière
De peur que tu ne disparaisses,
Tel un amer souvenir,
Qui hanterait mon âme.
Je chanterai ce blâme,
Pétrifiée dans ma destinée.
Les anges t’ont pris la main
Puis ont scellé ton dam.
Parfois ta voix caresse me sens
Et me laisse dans l’absence
De ce monde rempli de messages insensés.
Sons, couleurs s’évanouissent autour de moi,
Je m’achemine vers un monde invisible
Où règnent les songes.
Je reste prisonnière
De peur que tu ne disparaisses,
Tel un amer souvenir,
Qui hanterait mon âme.
En moi survit l’espoir
Un jour de te revoir.
Ensemble, remontons le temps
Et gagnons notre sphère originelle !
Ta voix me parvient,
Etouffée par les cris des damnés…
Et ta douleur se déverse
Dans les méandres de mon âmes…
May that ghost way cast my spell to void
By taking away with my life coldness, pain and oblivion.
Lyrics submitted by KarlchenOfHell
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