"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.
Tu és divina e graciosa
Estátua majestosa
No amor!
Por Deus esculturada
E formada com ardor...
Da alma da mais linda flor
De mais ativo olôr
Que na vida é preferida
Pelo beija-flor...
Se Deus
Me fora tão clemente
Aqui neste ambiente
De luz, formada numa tela
Deslumbrante e bela...
Teu coração
Junto ao meu lanceado
Pregado e crucificado
Sobre a rosa e a cruz
Do arfante peito teu...
Tu és a forma ideal
Estátua magistral
Oh! alma perenal
Do meu primeiro amor
Sublime amor...
Tu és de Deus
A soberana flor
Tu és de Deus a criação
Que em todo coração
Sepultas um amor...
O riso, a fé, a dor
Em sândalos olentes
Cheios de sabor
Em vozes tão dolentes
Como um sonho em flor...
És láctea estrela
És mãe da realeza
És tudo enfim
Que tem de belo
Em todo resplendor
Da santa natureza...
Perdão!
Se ouso confessar-te
Eu hei de sempre amar-te
Oh! flor!
Meu peito não resiste
Oh! meu Deus
O quanto é triste
A incerteza de um amor
Que mais me faz penar
Em esperar
Em conduzir-te
Um dia ao pé do altar...
Jurar aos pés do Onipotente
Em preces comoventes
De dor, e receber a unção
Da tua gratidão...
Depois de remir meus desejos
Em nuvens de beijos
Hei de envolver-te
Até meu padecer
De todo fenecer...
Lyrics submitted by annazoff
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