"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.
Chanson juste pour toi
Chanson un peu triste je crois
Trois temps de mots froissés
Quelques notes et tous mes regrets
Tous mes regrets de nous deux
Sont au bout de mes doigts
Comme do, ré, mi, fa
Sol, la, si, do, c'est une chanson d'amour fanée
Comme celle que tu fredonnais
Trois fois rien de nos vies
Trois fois rien comme cette mélodie
Ce qu'il reste de nous deux
Est au creux de ma voix
Comme do, ré, mi, fa
Sol, la, si, do, c'est une chanson
C'est une chanson en souvenir
Pour ne pas s'oublier sans rien dire
S'oublier sans rien dire
Chanson un peu triste je crois
Trois temps de mots froissés
Quelques notes et tous mes regrets
Tous mes regrets de nous deux
Sont au bout de mes doigts
Comme do, ré, mi, fa
Sol, la, si, do, c'est une chanson d'amour fanée
Comme celle que tu fredonnais
Trois fois rien de nos vies
Trois fois rien comme cette mélodie
Ce qu'il reste de nous deux
Est au creux de ma voix
Comme do, ré, mi, fa
Sol, la, si, do, c'est une chanson
C'est une chanson en souvenir
Pour ne pas s'oublier sans rien dire
S'oublier sans rien dire
Lyrics submitted by chrisjudah
Chanson triste Lyrics as written by Carla Bruni
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Sad Song
Song just for you a little sad song I believe Three verses of crumpled words Sometimes notes of all my regrets All my regrets of us (two) Are all at the end of my fingers Like do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do. It’s a song of withered love Like the one that you hum Three times nothing of our lives Three verses, nothing like this melody This that remains of us (two) Is hollow to my sight Like do re mi fa sol la si do It’s a souvenir song For us to forget without anything to say. To forget without anything to say
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