"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.
C'est une envie de dire
Tout s'en va
On s'fait pleurer plus qu'on s'fait rire
Toi et moi
Tant pis si ces mots qui tombent
Pourraient tout foutre à la tombe
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Je m'sens de moins en moins belle
À cause du temps cruel
Et aussi parce que
Tu m'regardes plus
Tu m'aimes plus
On s'est perdus
Dans l'orage, deux hirondelles
Se quittent les infidèles
Alors maintenant tu sais
Inutile de dire
On verra
Les jours meilleurs vont bien revenir
Tu crois ça
Ils sont comme ces mots qui tombent
Dans un grand trou, dans une tombe
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Je m'sens de moins en moins belle
À cause du temps cruel
Et aussi parce que
Tu m'regardes plus
Tu m'aimes plus
On s'est perdus
À cloche-pied sur une marelle
En s'éloignant du ciel
Battu, courbatu
Jetez bas les chapeaux pointus
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Tout s'en va
On s'fait pleurer plus qu'on s'fait rire
Toi et moi
Tant pis si ces mots qui tombent
Pourraient tout foutre à la tombe
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Je m'sens de moins en moins belle
À cause du temps cruel
Et aussi parce que
Tu m'regardes plus
Tu m'aimes plus
On s'est perdus
Dans l'orage, deux hirondelles
Se quittent les infidèles
Alors maintenant tu sais
Inutile de dire
On verra
Les jours meilleurs vont bien revenir
Tu crois ça
Ils sont comme ces mots qui tombent
Dans un grand trou, dans une tombe
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Je m'sens de moins en moins belle
À cause du temps cruel
Et aussi parce que
Tu m'regardes plus
Tu m'aimes plus
On s'est perdus
À cloche-pied sur une marelle
En s'éloignant du ciel
Battu, courbatu
Jetez bas les chapeaux pointus
Tu m'vois plus
Tu m'sens plus
Tu m'entends plus
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Tu m'vois plus, tu m'sens plus Lyrics as written by Michel Jonasz
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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