"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.
Ojalá y te me borraras de mis sueños
Y poder desdibujarte
Ojalá y pudiera ahogarte en un charco
Lleno de rosas y amor
Ojalá y se me olvidara hasta tu nombre
Ahogarlo dentro del mar
Ojalá y que tu sonrisa de verano
Se pudiera ya borrar
Vuelve corazón
Uh-uh-uh-uh, vuelve a mi lado
Vuelve corazón
No vuelve, no vuelve, no vuelve, no
Ojalá y te me borraras para siempre de mi vida
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me borraras por las noches
En el día, para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me esfumaras de mis sueños
Vida mía
Para no volverte a ver
No, ni en sueños
Como puedo yo borrar tus besos vida
Están tatuados en mi piel
Quiero de una vez por todas ya largarte
Y borrarte de mi ser
Ojalá y la lluvia me ahogue entre sus brazos
Para no pensar en ti
O que pase un milagro o pase algo
Que me lleve hasta ti
Vuelve corazón
Uh-uh-uh-uh, vuelve a mi lado
Pero no, no, no, no vuelve corazón
No vuelve, no vuelve, no vuelve, no
Ojalá y te me borraras para siempre de mi vida
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me borraras por las noches, en el día
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me esfumaras de mis sueños
Vida mía
Y que no me lluevas más
Y ojalá y que la lluvia me ahogue entre sus brazos
Para no volverte a ver
No, ni en sueños
Pa' que pares de llover sueños
Sueños
Oh mis sueños
Y poder desdibujarte
Ojalá y pudiera ahogarte en un charco
Lleno de rosas y amor
Ojalá y se me olvidara hasta tu nombre
Ahogarlo dentro del mar
Ojalá y que tu sonrisa de verano
Se pudiera ya borrar
Vuelve corazón
Uh-uh-uh-uh, vuelve a mi lado
Vuelve corazón
No vuelve, no vuelve, no vuelve, no
Ojalá y te me borraras para siempre de mi vida
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me borraras por las noches
En el día, para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me esfumaras de mis sueños
Vida mía
Para no volverte a ver
No, ni en sueños
Como puedo yo borrar tus besos vida
Están tatuados en mi piel
Quiero de una vez por todas ya largarte
Y borrarte de mi ser
Ojalá y la lluvia me ahogue entre sus brazos
Para no pensar en ti
O que pase un milagro o pase algo
Que me lleve hasta ti
Vuelve corazón
Uh-uh-uh-uh, vuelve a mi lado
Pero no, no, no, no vuelve corazón
No vuelve, no vuelve, no vuelve, no
Ojalá y te me borraras para siempre de mi vida
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me borraras por las noches, en el día
Para no volverte a ver
Y ojalá y te me esfumaras de mis sueños
Vida mía
Y que no me lluevas más
Y ojalá y que la lluvia me ahogue entre sus brazos
Para no volverte a ver
No, ni en sueños
Pa' que pares de llover sueños
Sueños
Oh mis sueños
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