"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 me renies, moi je t’appelle
Tu me renvoies, je te supplie
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Tu parles peu, je te harcèle
Défiguré de jalousie
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Tu n’es plus tout à fait la même
Plus tu m’échappes et plus je t’aime
Plus j’ai besoin de toi
Toi en qui j’ai placé mes rêves
J’ai peur de te perdre et j’en crève
Et me suicide en toi
De déchirements en querelles
De peur du jour en froid du lit
Je me raccroche à toi
Notre bonheur est dans l’impasse
Et pour venir à son secours
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Dans le malheur on se surpasse
Espérant te garder toujours
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
De mal d’aimer en maladresse
J’étais regrets, j’étais faiblesses
Je deviens agonie
Si mon amour ne peut survivre
Je n’ai plus de raison de vivre
À quoi me sert ma vie ?
Et tant pis si je perds la face
Je n’ai plus d’orgueil en amour
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Tu me renvoies, je te supplie
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Tu parles peu, je te harcèle
Défiguré de jalousie
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Tu n’es plus tout à fait la même
Plus tu m’échappes et plus je t’aime
Plus j’ai besoin de toi
Toi en qui j’ai placé mes rêves
J’ai peur de te perdre et j’en crève
Et me suicide en toi
De déchirements en querelles
De peur du jour en froid du lit
Je me raccroche à toi
Notre bonheur est dans l’impasse
Et pour venir à son secours
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Dans le malheur on se surpasse
Espérant te garder toujours
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
De mal d’aimer en maladresse
J’étais regrets, j’étais faiblesses
Je deviens agonie
Si mon amour ne peut survivre
Je n’ai plus de raison de vivre
À quoi me sert ma vie ?
Et tant pis si je perds la face
Je n’ai plus d’orgueil en amour
Je me raccroche à toi
Je me raccroche à toi
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
JE ME RACCROCHE A TOI Lyrics as written by Georges Garvarentz Charles Aznavour
Lyrics © EDITIONS MUSICALES DJANIK, Peermusic Publishing
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