"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.
Guardami
No andare via
Guardami
Non vorrai di più
Non lasciar che così sia
Con un si vedrai
Quello che vorrai
Guardami
Sono solo io
Quella che
Ti porterà via
La mia anima è con te
Non saprai di più
Mai più vedrai
La scena che faro
E non fingero
Di saper di più
Tu sai che io
È lì che finirò
Mentre guardo te
Di dirò cosa è
Guardami
Già non parlo più
Sento ormai
Che t'arrenderai
Piano piano tra di noi
È la musica che ti fa sognar
Guardami
Non ne posso più
Questa si è la vita mia
E nell'ombra
Troverai
Tutto quel che vuoi
Una dolce melodia
Che qualcuno a vrà
Cantato giù
Guardami
Una fiamma ormai
Come me non ci saranno mai
Sono ancora qui tra voi
Sento che adesso
Io rimarrò qui
Solo adesso
Sento che con te
Sono io
Guarda
No andare via
Guardami
Non vorrai di più
Non lasciar che così sia
Con un si vedrai
Quello che vorrai
Guardami
Sono solo io
Quella che
Ti porterà via
La mia anima è con te
Non saprai di più
Mai più vedrai
La scena che faro
E non fingero
Di saper di più
Tu sai che io
È lì che finirò
Mentre guardo te
Di dirò cosa è
Guardami
Già non parlo più
Sento ormai
Che t'arrenderai
Piano piano tra di noi
È la musica che ti fa sognar
Guardami
Non ne posso più
Questa si è la vita mia
E nell'ombra
Troverai
Tutto quel che vuoi
Una dolce melodia
Che qualcuno a vrà
Cantato giù
Guardami
Una fiamma ormai
Come me non ci saranno mai
Sono ancora qui tra voi
Sento che adesso
Io rimarrò qui
Solo adesso
Sento che con te
Sono io
Guarda
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