"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.
Начать сначала
Не смотреть по зеркалам
Не тормозить
Горят контакты и катушки
Нам их незачем тушить
Огонь и ветер
Слишком поздно
Чтобы нас остановить
Начать сначала
Мы взлетаем
И уже не посадить
Время Луны
Облака не отменять
Страх высоты
Нас с тобой не изменить
Начать сначала
Ревут моторы
Горят контакты
Огонь и ветер
Не посадить
Не тормозить
Нам наплевать
Нас не достать
Время Луны
Облака не отменять
Страх высоты
Нас с тобой не изменить
Начать сначала
Мы вперёд
А все назад
Нам наплевать
Ревут моторы
Мы летим
А все стоять
Нас не достать
Начать сначала
Нас никто не остановить
Им слабо
Начать сначала
Ты же знаешь
Начинать всегда Легко
[Transliteration]
Nachat' snachala
Ne smotret' po zerkalam
Ne tormozit'
Goryat kontakty i katushki
Nam ih nezachem tushit'
Ogon' i veter
Slishkom pozdno
Chtoby nas ostanovit'
Nachat' snachala
My vzletayem
I uzhe ne posadit'
Vremya Luny
Oblaka ne otmenyat'
Strah vysoty
Nas s toboĭ ne izmenit'
Nachat' snachala
Revut motory
Goryat kontakty
Ogon' i veter
Ne posadit'
Ne tormozit'
Nam naplevat'
Nas ne dostat'
Vremya Luny
Oblaka ne otmenyat'
Strah vysoty
Nas s toboĭ ne izmenit'
Nachat' snachala
My vperyod
A vse nazad
Nam naplevat'
Revut motory
My letim
A vse stoyat'
Nas ne dostat'
Nachat' snachala
Nas nikto ne ostanovit'
Im slabo
Nachat' snachala
Ty zhe znaesh'
Nachinat' vsegda Legko
{Translation}
Start over
Don't look in the mirror
Don't brake the car
Contacts and traps are burning
We don't need to extinguish them
Fire and wind
It's too late
For us to stop
Start all over
We're taking off
And no one will make us land
Time of the Moon
Clouds won't melt
The fear of heights
We won't change
Start all over
The engines roar
Contacts burn
Fire and wind
Don't land
Don't brake
We don't give a damn
They're not gonna get us
Time of the Moon
Clouds won't melt
The fear of heights
We won't change
Start all over
We're moving forward
And everything's in the past
We don't give a damn
Engines roar
We are flying
And everyone is standing still
They're not gonna get us
Start all over
Nobody can stop us
They're weak
Start all over
After all, you know
It's always easy to begin
Не смотреть по зеркалам
Не тормозить
Горят контакты и катушки
Нам их незачем тушить
Огонь и ветер
Слишком поздно
Чтобы нас остановить
Начать сначала
Мы взлетаем
И уже не посадить
Время Луны
Облака не отменять
Страх высоты
Нас с тобой не изменить
Начать сначала
Ревут моторы
Горят контакты
Огонь и ветер
Не посадить
Не тормозить
Нам наплевать
Нас не достать
Время Луны
Облака не отменять
Страх высоты
Нас с тобой не изменить
Начать сначала
Мы вперёд
А все назад
Нам наплевать
Ревут моторы
Мы летим
А все стоять
Нас не достать
Начать сначала
Нас никто не остановить
Им слабо
Начать сначала
Ты же знаешь
Начинать всегда Легко
[Transliteration]
Nachat' snachala
Ne smotret' po zerkalam
Ne tormozit'
Goryat kontakty i katushki
Nam ih nezachem tushit'
Ogon' i veter
Slishkom pozdno
Chtoby nas ostanovit'
Nachat' snachala
My vzletayem
I uzhe ne posadit'
Vremya Luny
Oblaka ne otmenyat'
Strah vysoty
Nas s toboĭ ne izmenit'
Nachat' snachala
Revut motory
Goryat kontakty
Ogon' i veter
Ne posadit'
Ne tormozit'
Nam naplevat'
Nas ne dostat'
Vremya Luny
Oblaka ne otmenyat'
Strah vysoty
Nas s toboĭ ne izmenit'
Nachat' snachala
My vperyod
A vse nazad
Nam naplevat'
Revut motory
My letim
A vse stoyat'
Nas ne dostat'
Nachat' snachala
Nas nikto ne ostanovit'
Im slabo
Nachat' snachala
Ty zhe znaesh'
Nachinat' vsegda Legko
{Translation}
Start over
Don't look in the mirror
Don't brake the car
Contacts and traps are burning
We don't need to extinguish them
Fire and wind
It's too late
For us to stop
Start all over
We're taking off
And no one will make us land
Time of the Moon
Clouds won't melt
The fear of heights
We won't change
Start all over
The engines roar
Contacts burn
Fire and wind
Don't land
Don't brake
We don't give a damn
They're not gonna get us
Time of the Moon
Clouds won't melt
The fear of heights
We won't change
Start all over
We're moving forward
And everything's in the past
We don't give a damn
Engines roar
We are flying
And everyone is standing still
They're not gonna get us
Start all over
Nobody can stop us
They're weak
Start all over
After all, you know
It's always easy to begin
Lyrics submitted by Blackandwild1
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Start over Don't look in the mirror Don't brake the car Contacts and traps are burning We don't need to extinguish them Fire and wind It's too late For us to stop Start all over We're taking off And no one will make us land
Time of the Moon Clouds won't melt The fear of heights We won't change
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