"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.
You were born in '67
About 9 o'clock at night
A couple years before I lost control
and ended up inside.
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
I stopped taking all my pills
they made me feel so dead inside.
Just like the sun was going out
I didn't think I сould survive
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
Now I'm writing from a caravan
behind your nana's place
I think my spirit will be happier
with the stars in outer space.
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
About 9 o'clock at night
A couple years before I lost control
and ended up inside.
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
I stopped taking all my pills
they made me feel so dead inside.
Just like the sun was going out
I didn't think I сould survive
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
Now I'm writing from a caravan
behind your nana's place
I think my spirit will be happier
with the stars in outer space.
The clouds in
Camarillo
Shimmer with a light that's
So unreal
Now I fear the stories
That they told me
Of how I hurt my baby
Must be somehow true
Lyrics submitted by YBNH
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Page
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But there is the other part, the russian part:
Nam tak svetlo. Vecher. May. Po vode tancuem. (Light for us. Evening. May. Dancing on the water.)
A couple years before I lost control And ended up inside.
Kto nas uznal? Ugaday. Mi ego risuem. Ya dlya tebya stanu zdes' Samoy zvonkoy liroy. Poy, pust' slova uletyat Na vershinu mira. ( On the top of the mountain (Who will give us recognition? Guess who. We draw it. I'll become here for you The most sonorous lyre. Sing, let words fly On the Camarillo)
/chorus/ The clouds in Camarillo (Na vershinu mira =On the top of the mountain) Shimmer with a light that's So unreal (Na vershinu mira) Now I fear the stories That they told me (Na vershinu mira) Of how I hurt my baby Must be somehow true
I stopped taking all my pills They made me feel so dead inside.
Vremya bezit i nikto U nego ne sprosit (Time is running and no one Will ask him.)
Just like the sun was going out I didn't think I ñould survive
Znaet ob etom lish on. On tebya poprosit Spet' emu neskolko slov Starogo motiva. I te slova uletyat Na vershinu mira. (This know only he. He will ask for you To sing some words Of the old motive. And this words will fly To the Camarillo.)
/chorus/
Now I'm writing from a caravan Behind your nana's place
Solnce igraet s ognem, Mi igraem s vetrom (Sun play with fire, We play with wind.)
I think my spirit will be happier With the stars in outer space.
Nam tak svetlo mi vdvoem, Vmeste stanem peplom. I kogda solnce zashlo, Kak ze ti prosila Vzyat za soboyu tebya Na vershinu mira. (Light for us, we together, Will be ashes. And when sun come down, You ask me Take me to the Camarillo)
The song goes from the point of view of a woman, and "baby" is an actual baby, her son. The song writer, David Arthur Brown, wrote it about his mother who spent some time in the in Camarillo State mental hospital.
... I think it's pretty obvious what it's about. He killed his wife/girlfriend and he's... in a mental hospital, probably. Finally realizes it's true, that he's killed her, and decides to kill himself.
J'adore the version of this with Minerva. <3
I think it's more about his mother, who had a sort of mental illness.<br /> And Minerva version suck!