"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.
Soy anarquista, soy neonazista.
Soy un skinhead y soy ecologista.
Soy peronista, soy terrorista, capitalista
y también soy pacifista.
Soy activista, sindicalista,
soy agresivo y muy alternativo.
Soy deportista, del Rotarac.
PoliteÃsta y también soy buen cristiano.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
Me gusta el heavy metal, me gusta el hardcore,
me gusta Patrick Miller y también me gusta el grunge.
Me gusta la Maldita, me gusta la Lupita
y escuchar a los Magneto cuando esta mi noviecita.
Me gusta andar de negro con los labios pintados.
Pero guapo en la oficina siempre ando bien trajeado.
Me gusta aventar piedras, me gusta recojerlas,
me gusta pintar bardas y después ir a lavarlas.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
Soy un skinhead y soy ecologista.
Soy peronista, soy terrorista, capitalista
y también soy pacifista.
Soy activista, sindicalista,
soy agresivo y muy alternativo.
Soy deportista, del Rotarac.
PoliteÃsta y también soy buen cristiano.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
Me gusta el heavy metal, me gusta el hardcore,
me gusta Patrick Miller y también me gusta el grunge.
Me gusta la Maldita, me gusta la Lupita
y escuchar a los Magneto cuando esta mi noviecita.
Me gusta andar de negro con los labios pintados.
Pero guapo en la oficina siempre ando bien trajeado.
Me gusta aventar piedras, me gusta recojerlas,
me gusta pintar bardas y después ir a lavarlas.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
Y en las tocadas la neta es el slam,
pero en mi casa sà le meto al tropical.
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La Maldita (short/nickname for La Maldita Vecindad, the full name being La Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos del Quntio Patio ["The Damned Neighborhood And The Sons of The Fifth Patio"]) is a famous rock/ska band from Mexico City. La Lupita is a band from Guadalajara, Mexico, that combines hard rock and latin music. Like Maldita Vecindad, they were famous in the 90s. Magneto were a pop boy-band, famous in the 80s and 90s. Not sure about Patrick Miller, but I think it's some sort of electronica played in raves in the 90s. Indeed, this album was released in 1994, so 90s references shouldn't be a surprise.
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