"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.
Tout le temps tout justifier
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
En silence
J'vous l'dis, j'vous l'dis
C'pas moi qui l'dis
C't'un mauvais esprit
Dans mon esprit
C'est ma maladie
Ma malédiction
Un mal de la diction
Mes paroles volent en direction
De l'abjection
Sans que je puisse faire objection
Ma langue est téléguidée
Dans l'égout de mes idées
Par un lutin dans ma tête
Un mutin qui fait la fête
C'est mon syndrome
Chu comme un drome
Un avion pas d'pilote
Tout le temps tout justifier
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
Tout le temps tout justifier
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
En silence
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
En silence
J'vous l'dis, j'vous l'dis
C'pas moi qui l'dis
C't'un mauvais esprit
Dans mon esprit
C'est ma maladie
Ma malédiction
Un mal de la diction
Mes paroles volent en direction
De l'abjection
Sans que je puisse faire objection
Ma langue est téléguidée
Dans l'égout de mes idées
Par un lutin dans ma tête
Un mutin qui fait la fête
C'est mon syndrome
Chu comme un drome
Un avion pas d'pilote
Tout le temps tout justifier
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
Tout le temps tout justifier
Toujours tout expliquer
Tous les jours tout analyser
Toujours tout décortiquer
Pour la critique et tout ceux qui vont tiquer
En silence
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Great version of a great song,
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Ahh, I love this song! The spoken word is just so catchy...
"pourquoi polluer vos propos par la politique, vous ne vous amusez plus avec la musique?"
Quelle belle allitération :P