"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.
Pablo Escobar, rei da Cocaina
Criou emperio de drogas e mentiras
Matava gente - la na rua
O Padriho, seu apelido
Fora da lei desde menino
En Medellin ele cresceu
Era diabo ou filho de deus
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Caralho)
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Pinche cabrón)
Pablo Escobar, señor de la coca
Reino de miedo, terror, violencia
Control del mundo desde Medellín
Obedece, o ves tu fin
Tuvo el poder dando mordidas,
Comprando jueces y chota sucia
Plata O Plomo, así es la ley
Te haces rico o mueres wey
O cartel de Medellin
Finalmente chegou ao fim
Sequestro e tortura
Matava todos - filhas da puta
Narco Pablo - Amado Odiado
Narco Pablo - Amado Odiado
Pablo Escobar, hombre de la gente
Con lana sucia quería ser presidente
Pinche gobierno lo rechazó
Venganza suya, empezó el terror
Narco Pablo - Amando Odiado
Narco Pablo - Amando Odiado
No telhado ele morreu
Chuva de balas o chao tremeu
Emboscada se meteu
E sem saida se fudeu
A policia filha de puta
Se deu melhor nessa luta
Mas seu nome continua
Acendem velas na sua sepultura
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Porra)
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Culero)
Rico O Muerto
Plata O Plomo
Criou emperio de drogas e mentiras
Matava gente - la na rua
O Padriho, seu apelido
Fora da lei desde menino
En Medellin ele cresceu
Era diabo ou filho de deus
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Caralho)
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Pinche cabrón)
Pablo Escobar, señor de la coca
Reino de miedo, terror, violencia
Control del mundo desde Medellín
Obedece, o ves tu fin
Tuvo el poder dando mordidas,
Comprando jueces y chota sucia
Plata O Plomo, así es la ley
Te haces rico o mueres wey
O cartel de Medellin
Finalmente chegou ao fim
Sequestro e tortura
Matava todos - filhas da puta
Narco Pablo - Amado Odiado
Narco Pablo - Amado Odiado
Pablo Escobar, hombre de la gente
Con lana sucia quería ser presidente
Pinche gobierno lo rechazó
Venganza suya, empezó el terror
Narco Pablo - Amando Odiado
Narco Pablo - Amando Odiado
No telhado ele morreu
Chuva de balas o chao tremeu
Emboscada se meteu
E sem saida se fudeu
A policia filha de puta
Se deu melhor nessa luta
Mas seu nome continua
Acendem velas na sua sepultura
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Porra)
Plata O Plomo
Plata O Plomo (Culero)
Rico O Muerto
Plata O Plomo
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