"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.
Recuerdo la vez que nos conocimos
En aquella ocasión no pude brindarte la mejor versión de mi
Estaba herido, lastimado, estaba roto
Pero una tarde de sonrisas sanaron mi corazón y fue cuando me di cuenta que
Quería permanecer a tu lado para siempre
Mi compañera mi ayuda mi soporte
Dios te trajo a mi para hacerme más fuerte
Nuestra unión no es casualidad ni algo de suerte
Nacimos el uno para el otro hasta la muerte y
Gracias por permanecer aquí todavía
Quiero que estés conmigo hasta el final de mis días y
Nunca encontraría ninguna otra compañía
Que sea como tu, oh amada mía y
Eres la única y no la primera
Contigo aprendí que un "te amo" no es pa' cualquiera
Cocinando ser mejor quisiera
Pero a veces siento mami que te desesperas
Y espera, mi hermosa dama mi hermosa guerrera
Aunque tengamos baches en nuestra carretera
No permitamos que este amor muera
No dejemos de correr juntos la carrera, y eh
Yo que todo lo he logrado contigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron, ah ah
Tu que todo lo has soñado conmigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron
Me conociste en catia siendo un buhonero
Mientras trataba de surgir en el camino
Cuando te vi, supe que tú eras primero
Me importaba poco ya la venta de ajo y comino
Empezamos siendo amigos y tus amigos
Se enojaban mucho conmigo
Porque era evidente a veces
Que quería formar un cordón de tres dobleces
Y fueron muchas las veces
Que comparecimos antes los jueces por
nuestras estupideces
Porque cuando no podía, te besé y
Me encanta porque eres romántica
Tu me apoyas en todas mis facetas
Cuando vendía me compraste una cesta
Y ahora que canto; eres mi fanática Yeah
Como tú no hay ninguna
Mami contigo tengo una fortuna
Y si es muy cara la luna
Entonces, yo te llevo a las dunas, oh oh
Yo que todo lo he logrado contigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron, ah ah
Y tu que todo lo has soñado conmigo mi amor
Aunque lo intentaron yeah
Es Jorge Prince baby
Son muchas las cosas que hemos vivido y
Después de tanto, no podemos mirar atrás
Dios bendice el fruto de nuestro amor
Con tu llegada, hermoso bebé
En aquella ocasión no pude brindarte la mejor versión de mi
Estaba herido, lastimado, estaba roto
Pero una tarde de sonrisas sanaron mi corazón y fue cuando me di cuenta que
Quería permanecer a tu lado para siempre
Mi compañera mi ayuda mi soporte
Dios te trajo a mi para hacerme más fuerte
Nuestra unión no es casualidad ni algo de suerte
Nacimos el uno para el otro hasta la muerte y
Gracias por permanecer aquí todavía
Quiero que estés conmigo hasta el final de mis días y
Nunca encontraría ninguna otra compañía
Que sea como tu, oh amada mía y
Eres la única y no la primera
Contigo aprendí que un "te amo" no es pa' cualquiera
Cocinando ser mejor quisiera
Pero a veces siento mami que te desesperas
Y espera, mi hermosa dama mi hermosa guerrera
Aunque tengamos baches en nuestra carretera
No permitamos que este amor muera
No dejemos de correr juntos la carrera, y eh
Yo que todo lo he logrado contigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron, ah ah
Tu que todo lo has soñado conmigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron
Me conociste en catia siendo un buhonero
Mientras trataba de surgir en el camino
Cuando te vi, supe que tú eras primero
Me importaba poco ya la venta de ajo y comino
Empezamos siendo amigos y tus amigos
Se enojaban mucho conmigo
Porque era evidente a veces
Que quería formar un cordón de tres dobleces
Y fueron muchas las veces
Que comparecimos antes los jueces por
nuestras estupideces
Porque cuando no podía, te besé y
Me encanta porque eres romántica
Tu me apoyas en todas mis facetas
Cuando vendía me compraste una cesta
Y ahora que canto; eres mi fanática Yeah
Como tú no hay ninguna
Mami contigo tengo una fortuna
Y si es muy cara la luna
Entonces, yo te llevo a las dunas, oh oh
Yo que todo lo he logrado contigo
Aunque lo intentaron no nos separaron, ah ah
Y tu que todo lo has soñado conmigo mi amor
Aunque lo intentaron yeah
Es Jorge Prince baby
Son muchas las cosas que hemos vivido y
Después de tanto, no podemos mirar atrás
Dios bendice el fruto de nuestro amor
Con tu llegada, hermoso bebé
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
June 25 Lyrics as written by Jorge Ormeño
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@Rickvee Hi very interesting about June although I believe the part where he mentions 'Somebody famous had a birthday 2day but all I saw was another full moon' gives insight into his longing 2b accepted away from the fame which was of course impossible but it shows how lonely he was 'All I saw was another full moon' is him alone so alone its really quite sad I believe he was profoundly depressed. It breaks my heart
Wow sorry but I just had 2say just noticed the part where u mention Prince referred 2 June last in his Sign o the times which is really insightful either he was a genius or its some weird coinsidense but his cousin doing heroin last June and now he himself dependent on opiates is almost surreal he is as u pointed out very reminicent
@Rickvee To me, this song is about his ex visiting him on his birthday. He puts some pasta on the stove for the two of them. They try to make some light conversation, but there's so much tension and no-one wants to kill the mood. His thoughts wander off, thinking about what they had together, his career, his feeling of being out of place, not being recognized for the artist/musician he truly is. Prince is the famous person whose birthday is celebrated on radio/tv/newspapers. But what does it really mean? He is still alone in his house, and the only one visiting is his ex. It's just another lonely day. Fuck, the pasta!
When I listen to this is feel it is about either Mayte or Manuela (what year was it written? .. )
He's waiting .. No one shows up.
Relationship is conflicted.
His wife is just a dream.
Their bodies are out of sync.
I think he just realized .. He's got 'food cooking' but the object of this loyalty is interested in some one else. Intimacy with someone else. It was his birthday.
Just another 'fool moon'.
'Why did you come to this planet why did you come to this life?' (Not to be a real wife). Born way too late .. (When marriage has lost it's meaning and sanctity?)
The music just goes round.
Waiting waiting. Irrelevant to his lover. What did you have for lunch today? Yeah like How would I know? But yes I do know. I know what you did.
On my birthday. A profound disappointment. Off having lunch with some one else but still locked into a sorry charade.
Meaningless conversations of untruth.
That's what i get. Impending separation and divorce. This wife is cheating on him .. it's his birthday and she was supposed to be there .. She's not a 'true' 'wife,' after he sacrificed something precious. His faith.
Instead, he is the fool starving and cold .. Unloved. left out in the cold.
After wife number two he was shattered and never married again.
Any body else have any thoughts? Must be the pasta burning .. It's probably his heart. Not mad. Sad. Irrelevant to the one that means something to him.
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