"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.
Amanece un nuevo día
Otra noche sin dormir
Recordando los momentos
De mi vida junto a ti
En la puerta del colegio
Donde yo te conocí
Fue un tropiezo y unos libros
Que cayeron para que
Mirándonos los dos
Habláramos sin voz
Yo nervioso y tu apenada
Sentimos que el amor
Se despertaba
Cada puerta del colegio es
Culpable de nuestro amor
Cada puerta del colegio es
La que me recuerda a ti
Ahora que no estas aquí
Cada puerta del colegio es
Como una mirada atrás
Cada puerta del colegio es
Donde vuelven a llorar
Pensando que estas detrás
Te sentabas a mi lado
En las clases de Ingles
Entre risas y caricias
Planeábamos que hacer
Cuando el año se acababa
Me dijiste escúchame
Tengo que cambiar de curso
Pues me iré muy lejos
Pero pronto volveré
El mundo se me hundió
Me rogaste que te esperara
Pero están duro amor
Te hecho de menos
Cada puerta del colegio es
Culpable de nuestro amor
Cada puerta del colegio es
La que me recuerda a ti
Ahora que no estas aquí
Cada puerta del colegio es
Como una mirada atrás
Cada puerta del colegio es
Donde vuelven a llorar
Pensando que estas detrás
Otra noche sin dormir
Recordando los momentos
De mi vida junto a ti
En la puerta del colegio
Donde yo te conocí
Fue un tropiezo y unos libros
Que cayeron para que
Mirándonos los dos
Habláramos sin voz
Yo nervioso y tu apenada
Sentimos que el amor
Se despertaba
Cada puerta del colegio es
Culpable de nuestro amor
Cada puerta del colegio es
La que me recuerda a ti
Ahora que no estas aquí
Cada puerta del colegio es
Como una mirada atrás
Cada puerta del colegio es
Donde vuelven a llorar
Pensando que estas detrás
Te sentabas a mi lado
En las clases de Ingles
Entre risas y caricias
Planeábamos que hacer
Cuando el año se acababa
Me dijiste escúchame
Tengo que cambiar de curso
Pues me iré muy lejos
Pero pronto volveré
El mundo se me hundió
Me rogaste que te esperara
Pero están duro amor
Te hecho de menos
Cada puerta del colegio es
Culpable de nuestro amor
Cada puerta del colegio es
La que me recuerda a ti
Ahora que no estas aquí
Cada puerta del colegio es
Como una mirada atrás
Cada puerta del colegio es
Donde vuelven a llorar
Pensando que estas detrás
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La Puerta del Colegio Lyrics as written by Mikel Herzog Alberto Estebanez Santesteban
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