"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.
Des filles en sueur
Caressant leurs cheveux
Connaissent le sens de l'humeur
Le coup tordu par le néon vert
J'aurais dû prendre un somnifère
Que reste-t-il de leurs amours fugaces?
Où sont leurs jolies fesses?
Les chiens ondulent et le vent est chaud
Les insectes ont couvert les eaux
De sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous de roi...
Sous l'orage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Les enfants vaudou dans vos doux regards
Annoncent les rythmes étranges
Appellent les morts et criant bien fort
Que les absents ont toujours tort
Tu aimeras la cadence céleste
Selon ce poison qui nous ronge
Les habituer à passer le silence
Qu'on peut avoir ailleurs, qu'ici
Du sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous du roi?
Sous l'orage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Dans la moiteur à fleur de peau sucrée
Apprends d'abord à laisser glisser
Sous les eaux et sans but,
Pour la souplesse des corps
La nuit m'ausculte dans un nouveau décor
Le passé tout simple, le futur, l'imparfait
L'avenir appartient à ceux qui n'en ont pas
Du sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous du roi...
Sauvage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Descends donc voir
Encore et encore
Crache sur les murs
Etale ton sourire
Tu verras bien, les services
Rendus à nos âmes
Tu aimerais ?...
Caressant leurs cheveux
Connaissent le sens de l'humeur
Le coup tordu par le néon vert
J'aurais dû prendre un somnifère
Que reste-t-il de leurs amours fugaces?
Où sont leurs jolies fesses?
Les chiens ondulent et le vent est chaud
Les insectes ont couvert les eaux
De sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous de roi...
Sous l'orage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Les enfants vaudou dans vos doux regards
Annoncent les rythmes étranges
Appellent les morts et criant bien fort
Que les absents ont toujours tort
Tu aimeras la cadence céleste
Selon ce poison qui nous ronge
Les habituer à passer le silence
Qu'on peut avoir ailleurs, qu'ici
Du sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous du roi?
Sous l'orage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Dans la moiteur à fleur de peau sucrée
Apprends d'abord à laisser glisser
Sous les eaux et sans but,
Pour la souplesse des corps
La nuit m'ausculte dans un nouveau décor
Le passé tout simple, le futur, l'imparfait
L'avenir appartient à ceux qui n'en ont pas
Du sang froid
Tu vas bientôt savoir
Où sont les fous du roi...
Sauvage
Prenez la danse pour le dernier orage
Descends donc voir
Encore et encore
Crache sur les murs
Etale ton sourire
Tu verras bien, les services
Rendus à nos âmes
Tu aimerais ?...
Lyrics submitted by ecorchee1
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
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Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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